Saudi Arabia said Monday it deposited $5 billion into the Turkish central bank, likely helping Ankara firm up its long-weakening currency, the lira, after last month’s massive earthquake that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria. The deposit provides a capstone for just how far relations have improved between the kingdom …

The Right—and Wrong—Lessons of the Iraq War “The whole horrible truth about the war is being revealed,” wrote the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in 1923, just five years after World War I had ended. “Every new book destroys some further illusion. How can we ever again believe anything?” Americans had once …

With the Ukraine War entering its second year today, NATO’s member-states and their respective populations face disagreements over the extent to which they should take risks and make sacrifices to achieve a full liberation of Ukrainian land. Before Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago today, NATO was beset by division. …

On December 13, 2022, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree demarcating the country’s maritime borders with Libya. The presidential decree is believed to cut off thousands of square kilometers of Libya’s maritime zone. Egypt’s unilateral move was taken without prior consultation or negotiation with the Libyans, raising …

The war in Ukraine has brought Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group to the forefront, with the United States now focusing on countering their presence beyond Ukraine, particularly in Africa. One theatre Washington is now prioritizing as part of this burgeoning effort is Libya, where Russia’s influence is mainly projected …

Introduction Depuis environ deux décennies, nous assistons à une escalade militaire des USA. Les événements qui ont mené à la guerre en Ukraine s’inscrivent dans ce cadre et en représentent une nouvelle étape qualitative. Avant cette guerre, les USA n’intervenaient que contre des pays en voie de développement ayant des …

Première bombe : le rapport de Seymour Hersh du 8 février selon lequel le président Joe Biden a autorisé le sabotage des pipelines Nord Stream construits pour transporter du gaz russe bon marché vers l’Europe. Deuxième bombe : Le Washington Post a mis fin aujourd’hui à l’embargo médiatique de l’Establishment …

White House officials have previously boasted that Washington ‘owns’ one third of Syria’s territory, in particular the resource-rich northeast The US occupation army renewed its oil smuggling campaign in northeast Syria three weeks after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ravaged the war-torn country. According to eyewitness reports from the countryside of …

Extremist group HTS wishes to establish full control over the economy of Syria’s northern region A 23 February report by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar suggests that the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist group, formerly the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, has been attempting with external support to consolidate its power in Syria’s …

New reports of US-trained Afghan special forces joining the fight in Ukraine, but on the Russian side, are emerging. The Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor firm that has played a vital role in the battle for the town of Bakhmut in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, is …