En 1935, le Congrès des écrivains américains a eu lieu à New York, suivi d’un autre deux ans plus tard. Ils ont appelé « les centaines de poètes, romanciers, dramaturges, critiques, auteurs de nouvelles et journalistes » pour discuter de « l’effondrement rapide du capitalisme » et de l’annonce d’une …
Read More »US, Turkey blacklist Syrian militants’ financial facilitators
The new sanctions target members of US-designated terrorist groups Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. The US Treasury Department coordinated with the government of Turkey to impose sanctions Tuesday on two men accused of serving as financial facilitators for terrorist groups in Syria’s opposition-controlled northwest. The Treasury action targets …
Read More »Two ISIS smuggling operatives captured in Syria
US forces ‘advised, assisted and enabled’ operation that comes amid rise in anti-ISIS activities The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured two ISIS smuggling operatives in the country’s north-eastern Hasakah province, US partner forces announced on Tuesday. The US Combined Special Operations Joint Task Force said the SDF led an April …
Read More »Türkiye eliminates top PKK/KCK terrorist in northern Iraq
The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Thursday announced that it eliminated a “high-ranking” member of the PKK/KCK terrorist group in a pinpoint operation in the northern Iraqi region of Gara. Ahmet Gümüş, codenamed “Cudi Engizek,” had been the so-called training officer of the KCK/PKK terrorists since 2022, the agency said, …
Read More »Senior ISIS leader confirmed dead in Syria raid, US says
Centcom claims a helicopter assault led to the death of an individual responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe A senior ISIS Syria leader has been killed after US forces conducted a targeted raid in the north of the country on Monday, Central Command says. Washington …
Read More »Arab League calls emergency meeting on crisis in Sudan, readmitting Syria
The Arab League will address Syria’s readmittance to the alliance and the ongoing violence in Sudan. The Arab League will meet this Sunday to discuss Sudan and Syria, as violence rages in Khartoum and the debate heats up on readmitting the Syrian government to the organization. Agence France-Presse reported that …
Read More »Should the US worry about China’s expanding influence in the Gulf?
The meeting between Raisi and Palestinian officials comes days after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel in response to the death of Islamic Jihad prisoner Khader Adnan. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi met on Thursday with senior Palestinian representatives from militant groups in the …
Read More »Syria’s Kurds turn to UAE to ease tensions with Assad
An alleged trip to the UAE capital by Syrian Democratic Forces chief Mazloum Kobane, which Emirati officials deny, came just before he was targeted by a Turkish drone last month. The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria is seeking the United Arab Emirates’ help to broker a deal with the Syrian …
Read More »Why did Iran seize a US-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman?
Neither side has acknowledged whether Iran’s capture of the Turkish-operated fuel tanker was a tit-for-tat move. Iran and the United States have again found themselves on opposite sides as they provided contradictory accounts of events that led to Tehran’s seizure of an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Iran’s …
Read More »Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?
From Wagner’s crimes and fake pretexts to the UN’s inaction, the Iraq invasion offered a preview of the Ukraine war. But not all is the same. Twenty years ago, on May 1, 2003, then-United States President George W Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, a giant …
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