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Turkey Is Playing With Fire in Syria—Again

While the war in Syria has receded from the international spotlight, residents in the country’s northeast are bracing for a new wave of armed conflict. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for months threatened to launch a military invasion of the region to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create …

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Syria’s ‘Cold’ Civil War Could Easily Get Hot Again

Back in June 2011, when news began to filter out from Syria of the first signs of armed resistance against the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad, few could have predicted the level of disruption to the global order that the conflict in Syria would go on to produce. After …

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Rima Urbonaitė. Besirūpinantiems Putino fizionomija metas žvilgtelėti į veidrodį

Vienas kartas gali būti klaida. Tačiau pasikartojantys Prancūzijos prezidento Emmanuelio Macrono pareiškimai, kuriais raginama padėti išsaugoti Vladimirui Putinui veidą ir nepažeminti Rusijos, pradeda kelti vis daugiau klausimų. Paskutinį kartą matydamas V. Putino fizionomiją, E. Macronas, regis, sėdėjo taip toli, jog neturėjo progos įsitikinti, jog ten jau nėra ką saugoti. Kas …

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