Middle Orient

American officials are scrambling to head off a new nightmare scenario in Syria: a major terrorist jailbreak. Thousands of Islamic State group fighters and their families remain in makeshift prisons, watched over by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces with limited weapons. The prisons were supposed to be temporary, but their home countries …

The leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist rebel group that spearheaded the ouster of the Bashar al-Assad regime, said Tuesday that Syria’s rebel factions will be dissolved, with all fighters uniting under the country’s Defense Ministry. “Syria must remain united, and there must be a social contract between …

Turkey has mediated an agreement between Ethiopia and Somalia, ending nearly a decade-long rivalry between the two African nations. While the deal is a welcome development for regional stability, Turkey’s mediation complicates Egypt’s regional strategy, as Cairo remains actively engaged in this conflict. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the …

L’escalade entre l’axe occidental des nostalgiques de l’unipolarité et les partisans de l’ordre mondial multipolaire, n’ira certainement pas à la baisse. L’accalmie que prétend aujourd’hui rechercher une partie de l’establishment étasunien n’est en réalité destinée qu’à offrir un nouveau souffle au camp otanesque et à tenter de rattraper le retard …

Pour comprendre la réalité de ce qui vient de se passer en Syrie, sur la chute du gouvernement de Bashar al-Assad cédant la direction du pays au néo-groupe pseudo-terroriste islamiste fraichement rasé de près, rebaptisé HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, je ne l’écrirai au complet qu’une seule fois !), il faut …

Le lundi 9 décembre 2024, les rédactions de France et de Navarre exultent ! Le «tyran» et «boucher» Assad est tombé, après presque quinze années de guerre de l’Occident, un blocus criminel et des centaines de milliers de morts. L’armée des «rebelles» a vaincu. Des «rebelles» qui sont aussi des …

The Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces recently launched a military operation of unprecedented scope and intensity against the “Jenin Brigade” Palestinian terror militia, which is based in the Jenin refugee camp and comprises mainly members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).[1] Like other terror militias in the northern West Bank, …

Pour comprendre la réalité de ce qui vient de se passer en Syrie, sur la chute du gouvernement de Bashar al-Assad cédant la direction du pays au néo-groupe pseudo-terroriste islamiste fraichement rasé de près, rebaptisé HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, je ne l’écrirai au complet qu’une seule fois !), il faut …

Analysis: The end of the Assad family’s 54-year rule is the start of a new chapter in Syrian history, one that will have reverberations across the Middle East. For years, many commentators inaccurately claimed that former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government had “won” the civil war. In truth, …

The new transitional government in Syria, headed by Mohammad al-Bashir, began itsactivities after the transfer of powers from the last government of the al-Assad regime. Amongits first decisions were the deployment of police forces in major cities and the prohibition ofsmoking and drinking alcohol. E_268_24-1Download