Middle Orient

Mike Huckabee tells Israeli TV that decision on US strike on Iran yet to be made; says embassy surprised by cancellation of flights to Israel; vows Turkey won’t receive F-35s US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in an interview aired Saturday that US President Donald Trump will not disappoint …

Supreme leader says Washington knows that conflict would spread, Iranians not afraid; in tit-for-tat, Tehran’s parliament designates European armies as terrorist organizations Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that if the US attacks Iran, the hostilities will broaden into a regional conflict, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. …

Trump’s attempts to improve ties with both Turkey and Saudi Arabia brought about the US lending its endorsement to al-Sharaa’s Islamist regime in Damascus. The result is that al-Sharaa has now set about, at the very least, failing to prevent (here, here and here) wholesale attempts, apparently by his own …

Internal security units of Syria’s Interior Ministry began entering Hassakeh on Monday as a deal with the U.S.-backed terrorist group YPG is being implemented. To begin the implementation process, a convoy consisting of eight armored personnel carriers belonging to Syria’s Interior Ministry, numerous four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, an ambulance, and a …

Syrian government forces entered the ethnically mixed city of Hasakah on Monday and prepared to do the same in Kobani and Qamishli, under the first phase of a deal to integrate areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces. The National witnessed about 15 armoured vehicles and police cars carrying roughly …

Syria’s government has reached a milestone agreement with the Kurdish-led militia in the country’s north-east, aimed at gradually integrating the group into the central army as part of a transition following Bashar Al Assad’s ousting in December 2024. The “comprehensive agreement” between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces is to …

Pas même le Venezuela et l’Iran suffisent à Trump qui menace à nouveau l’Irak, un pays que les États-Unis ont contribué à dévaster avec leur invasion de 2003, menée sur la base d’accusations présentées à l’ONU – les fameuses armes de destruction massive – qui se sont révélées infondées par …

Nous traduisons ci-dessous deux articles récents de Jonathan Cook qui dénoncent la BBC et le Guardian britanniques pour leur propagande belliciste éhontée. Ces analyses sont tout à fait valables pour nos propres médias, mais nous les complèterons prochainement par un article consacré au traitement de l’Iran par Mediapart, dont le …

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of the perpetrator of the mass murder, which killed five people, inside a house in the village of Deir al-Sharqi in the countryside of Maarat al-Nu’man in Idlib, on January 29. The ministry said in its statement, published on Sunday evening, February …

The name of Nour al-Din Ahmed, known as “Abu Omar Khanika”, tops the political scene in the province of Hasakah during the last hours, after the circulation of news of a consensus between the Syrian government and the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) to be named governor of Hasaka, in a …