Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is playing a delicate balancing act with pro-Iran factions as Washington keeps a low profile for its military advisers in Iraq in order to subdue the Islamic State. More than eleven years after he led the last US battalions out of Iraq, US Defense Secretary …
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The UAE and Iran have cordial economic and political relations, despite being on opposite sides of some regional rivalries. Iran and the United Arab Emirates agreed on Tuesday to work together more on aviation matters, Iranian state media reported. Iranian Civil Aviation Organization spokesman Jafar Yazarloo said they signed a …
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The top Iranian and Turkish diplomats are also expected to discuss the Syrian, Nagorno-Karabakh and bilateral files during their meeting. The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian would pay a visit to Turkey in solidarity after the twin earthquakes. Amir-Abdollahian, who will travel to Turkey …
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Several Qatari-owned news websites had been inaccessible to UAE residents since relations worsened in 2016 over Doha’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, but at least four are now unblocked. The United Arab Emirates appears to have unblocked a number of Qatari news websites after more than seven years of blocking …
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La Russie et les États-Unis, la Turquie et l’Iran, la Chine et l’Union européenne : tous ont joué un rôle dans le conflit syrien. Mais vont-ils aider le pays à se reconstruire ? Le conflit qui dure depuis sept ans en Syrie n’est toujours pas résolu. Des millions de Syriens …
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Saudi Arabia said Monday it deposited $5 billion into the Turkish central bank, likely helping Ankara firm up its long-weakening currency, the lira, after last month’s massive earthquake that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria. The deposit provides a capstone for just how far relations have improved between the kingdom …
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The Right—and Wrong—Lessons of the Iraq War “The whole horrible truth about the war is being revealed,” wrote the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in 1923, just five years after World War I had ended. “Every new book destroys some further illusion. How can we ever again believe anything?” Americans had once …
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White House officials have previously boasted that Washington ‘owns’ one third of Syria’s territory, in particular the resource-rich northeast The US occupation army renewed its oil smuggling campaign in northeast Syria three weeks after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ravaged the war-torn country. According to eyewitness reports from the countryside of …
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Extremist group HTS wishes to establish full control over the economy of Syria’s northern region A 23 February report by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar suggests that the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist group, formerly the Al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, has been attempting with external support to consolidate its power in Syria’s …
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The Cradle s’est entretenu avec un haut responsable militaire du Hezbollah en Irak sur le rôle crucial joué par le défunt commandant iranien de la Force Quds, le général de division Qassem Soleimani, dans la conduite de la résistance contre Daech. Qassem Soleimani, le commandant iranien de la Force d’élite …
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