Middle Orient

The announcement comes after the defacement of an Armenian genocide memorial in France. Turkey and France have had a series of disagreements in 2020. The French government plans to ban a Turkish nationalist group after the defacement of an Armenian memorial as tensions between France and Turkey continue to rise.

Iraqi Kurdish forces have deployed to a mountainous area long used as a camp ground by PKK militants, adding to the pressure the militants face from Turkey’s cross-border military operations in the region. Turkey’s months-long military operations in border areas on Iraqi Kurdistan soil have turned up pressure on the …

Jaber Ali Pasha, the current leader of the Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement, announced on Sunday his acceptance of a campaign, which calls on the parties to the internal conflict to form a legitimate litigation committee.

Iran’s currency, the rial, lost more than half its value so far just in 2020. Iran’s regime is currently running a $200 million budget deficit per week and it is estimated that if the pressure on Tehran continues, the deficit will hit roughly $10 billion by March 2021. This deficit …

Sources in Sudan and Egypt have revealed that Saudi Arabia is to pay $335 million to the US in order to accelerate normalisation of ties between the government in Khartoum and Israel, Safa news agency reported on Wednesday.

Israel strongly attacked Turkey and renewed its full support for Greece regarding the East Mediterranean crisis, The New Khalij reported on Friday. According to The New Khalij, an official Israeli Twitter account run by the Foreign Ministry posted: “Israel is following the latest developments in the East Mediterranean. Some unilateral …

The United States announces that it killed seven senior leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria in an air strike last week as they were meeting near Idlib, US Central Command announced on Monday.

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that regime forces and loyal militias have brought in new military reinforcement to Al-Sukhnah desert in eastern Homs and Al-Rassafah desert in southern Al-Raqqah. The recent-arriving reinforcement, which comprised military vehicles, weapons, ammunition and soldiers of “Liwaa Al-Baqer” and the “Palestinian Liwa al-Quds”, …

Observatory sources say that fighters of Ankara-backed factions, of those who sent by the Turkish government as “mercenaries” to Libya, continue their efforts to reach Europe, like dozens of fighters who have already gone from Libya to Italy and from there to Europe, using libya as a pretext for reaching …

According to analysts, Sadr, like other Islamist politicians, was trying to take advantage of the latest controversy to promote his image and win new supporters, even if that meant causing new chaos and trouble for the country.