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In first major flare-up since Ukraine invasion, Iran slams Russia over transit project

The story: Apparent Russian support for a controversial corridor linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave has triggered outrage in Tehran. The proposed route has long been opposed by Iran as it would sever the country’s land connection to Armenia. The flare-up between Moscow and Tehran highlights lingering points of contention, …

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The partially convergent Trump and Harris defense policies

There is a dichotomy, almost a contradiction, in comparing Donald Trump to Kamala Harris on matters of defense and the military. At one level, national security policy appears to be an area where there is more accord, and less debate, between the candidates than is the case in many other …

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Deir Ezzor: Corruption deprives al-Basira residents of diesel allocations

The residents of the city of al-Basira, one of the largest cities in eastern Deir Ezzor, have been deprived of heating fuel allocations for this year due to what some of them described as “corruption” prevalent among the fuel committee workers under the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria …

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