Families gathered around a refrigerated truck at a Syrian-Turkish border post, waiting earlier this month for the drivers to dispense their awful cargo: the bodies of 52 Syrian men, killed in a war 600 miles away.
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Competitors, Adversaries, or Enemies? Unpacking the Sino-American Relationship
“Competitor?” “Adversary?” “Enemy?” Which of these terms best describes U.S.-Chinese relations? The Washington Post reporter Susan Page posed this question during the vice-presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris. While neither offered a direct answer to the question, it goes to the heart of a major …
Read More »The Palestinians need a new strategy in relations with Israel
Israel has defeated Oslo, but the Palestinian people remain and will continue to struggle to remain on what is remaining from their land. I don’t know if the majority of Palestinians still support the idea of a mini Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with east Jerusalem as …
Read More »PIJ militants storm mosque, kidnap other PIJ members – report
The family of those kidnapped claimed that “‘Rambo’ Khaled Mansour,” a commander in the PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades, is responsible for the incident • “I felt my bones breaking in my right arm.”
Read More »Turkey signals willingness to repair relations with Egypt
Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalın said on Wednesday that Turkey was ready for a rapprochement with Egypt after seven years of strained relations, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Egypt “If Egypt reveals a willingness to act with a positive agenda on regional issues, Turkey would not leave it unanswered,” …
Read More »Erdogan’s new Janissaries… systematic rules of mercenarism and murder
The “new Ottoman Sultan”, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is attracting Syrian and foreign mercenaries from around the world to fight within his army against neighbouring countries he conquers, trying to deepen the idea of the new Janissaries to implement his political, military and geopolitical agendas in the region, and to avoid …
Read More »Russian Airstrikes Hit De-Escalation Zone in Northwestern Syria
Russia bombed parts of Idleb province Wednesday morning, just hours after the country was controversially admitted to the UN Human Rights Council. Monitors reported a series of Russian airstrikes in the Jisr al-Shughour region, western Idleb, although no casualties were reported.
Read More »Unofficial but effective Saudi boycott strikes blow at Turkey
Ajlan al-Ajlan, chairman of the board of directors of the Saudi Chamber of Commerce in Riyadh, launched a boycott campaign based on three No’s: “No investment, no imports, and no tourism.
Read More »Azerbaijan admires the effectiveness of Turkish drones in Nagorno-Karabakh
Drones have proven their effectiveness in the course of hostilities, Azerbaijan has a sufficient number of such vehicles from Turkey and other countries to achieve its goal in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Read More »Powerful Russian bombing of terrorist camps preparing for the Nagorno-Karabakh war
What is happening in the Caucasus region and the fierce clashes between the Armenian and Azerbaijani military. According to the latest information from Russian news agencies, Russian bombers struck powerful training camps at Syrian mercenaries.
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