Eurasia

According to the Syrian news agency SANA, demonstrations against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US occupation in Syria continue to grow. The protests, which are still ongoing on 27 December, demand the expulsion of US forces and their regional allies from the Deir Ezzor province. Activists quoted …

Experts say US sanctions failed to reach their ultimate objective of forcing Iran into major political and military concessions The Islamic Republic of Iran will receive an entire squadron of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia as Tehran and Moscow strengthen their defense and economic collaboration in defiance of broad …

The Turkish foreign minister also vowed to continue the fight against ‘terrorism’ in Syria Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told media on 29 December that Ankara is willing to withdraw from the territory it occupies in northern Syria and hand it over to Damascus in the event that “political stability” …

Tehran takes a hard stand as Xi Jinping discovers the Persian Gulf can be a diplomatic minefield. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the first Chinese Consulate-General in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on 21 December, Ambassador Chang Hua affirmed China’s support for Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

A superpower in decline still retains a vast appetite for irregular, proxy warfare to slow down the imminent multipolar order. Iran, Russia, China are its big targets and all tools will be employed. To maintain its global hegemony in the face of a rapidly emerging multipolar world, the US seeks …

On 12 December, under the pretext of environmentalism, dozens of state-backed “eco-activists” from Azerbaijan blocked the only land corridor connecting Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade created a humanitarian crisis for the 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh, cutting them off from the outside world. This is not the first time Baku …

Des documents d’archives publiés en 2012 confirment l’organisation de la Seconde Guerre mondiale par, non seulement les industriels et banquiers allemands, mais également par les banquiers états-uniens et britanniques, couverts par le président Franklin Roosevelt et le Premier ministre Neville Chamberlain, dans l’espoir de détruire l’URSS. Mais avant d’aller plus …

Résumé Nous arrivons à la fin d’un cycle dominé par les pays occidentaux qui, pendant cinq siècles à des degrés divers, ont « formaté » le monde. Comme tous les grands ensembles, vient un moment où les empires s’affaissent. L’histoire est pleine de récits grandioses où les pays occidentaux actuels sont des …

Following the July 31, 2022 killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, we are republishing two archival MEMRI JTTM reports by MEMRI senior analyst Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli. The first report, from 2005, focuses on information found on Al-Zawahiri’s computer after it was seized in an October 2001 raid on Al-Qaeda’s offices …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves round the world. As our look ahead to 2023 shows, several other crises loom as well. Will he or won’t he? This time last year, that was the question. Russian President Vladimir Putin had massed almost two hundred thousand troops on Ukraine’s borders. …