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Regime Plans To Hand Over Old Damascus To the Russians

The Syrian government announced that it intends to benefit from Russian experience in managing cities, especially in old Damascus, while Russia affirmed its willingness to cooperate and lend its experience in the field, amid a clear disregard for the Iranian presence in that region.

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Is Iran Reproducing Lebanon Example in Syria?

While the regime talks about the return of the displaced to southern Damascus, it continues to complicate matters. The regime requires that the ownership of the house be proven with a document (called the green tabu), in addition to the fact that the house should be intact and the person …

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China's latest unmanned combat systems to enter service, aim to win future wars for PLA: reports

Scientists at a Chinese military university have in the past few years been focusing on developing unmanned combat systems intended to win future wars, and their efforts are beginning to bear fruit. Recent reports show multiple types of unmanned equipment, including an amphibious combat platform and a combat vehicle with …

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UK Slams Beijing Over Ouster of Hong Kong Democratic Lawmakers

The United Kingdom on Thursday hit out at China’s disqualification of four pro-democracy members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo), saying that the country is in breach of a 1984 treaty promising to protect the city’s freedoms. “Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes …

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Can Putin Change Russia’s Role From Spoiler to Global Power?

Russia occupies an unusual position on the world stage. Under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has repeatedly demonstrated that it has the capacity to destabilize the international order, but not the capacity to fill the vacuum it is creating. While Russia lacks the military strength to challenge U.S. supremacy, no one—particularly …

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This is mourning

On November 7, 2020, Azerbaijani troops occupied the city of Shusha, which has been under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1992. Three days later, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia signed a ceasefire agreement, according to which almost half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s territory was transferred to Azerbaijan. …

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Are Israel and the US planning to attack Iran?

An Israeli strike against Iran is extremely complicated and has always been viewed by the IDF as a last resort. In 2008, after the election that brought former US president Barack Obama to power, there were some officials in Israel who were confident that the previous president, George W. Bush, …

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Daesh sleeper cells receive crushing blows by Iraqi forces

Iraqi forces deliver heavy blows to remnants of the ISIS terrorist group in the country, with counter-terrorism efforts by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi facilitating the process. The forces faced the Daesh terrorists in the eastern Iraqi Diyala Province, Nineveh and al-Anbar Provinces in the country’s west, …

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Afrin countryside | Unidentified gunmen attack “Suleyman Shah” military headquarters in north-west of Aleppo

Aleppo Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored an armed attack by unknown assailants, believed to be Kurdish forces, on a military headquarters belonging to the “Suleiman Shah” faction in Sheikh Hadid in Afrin countryside, northwest of Aleppo, where clashes took place between the two sides, amid …

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