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October 25, 2021 Eurasia, Middle Orient, South East Asia
While concerns of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan are front and center, we need to remember that there are thousands of ISIS fighters waging a low-level insurgency in Iraq and Syria. Containing that threat is critical, and doing so over the long term requires an international relations moonshot: creating an …
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October 25, 2021 Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkey has threatened to launch a military operation against the SDF in the wake of attacks carried out by the latter in north Syria. Turkey has threatened to launch a military operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has recently stepped up its attacks in the areas controlled …
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October 25, 2021 Iran, Middle Orient
Iran is working on controlling and infiltrating the Syrian community by supporting local leaders affiliated with it, forming tribal councils and appointing new sheikhs from small clans and families to spread Shiism in its areas of control in east Syria. Since the beginning of 2021, Iran has begun working on …
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October 24, 2021 Middle Orient
A US airstrike in northwest Syria on Saturday killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to a United States Central Command (CENTCOM) press release. “We have no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike, which was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft,” U.S. Army Maj. John Rigsbee, …
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October 24, 2021 Middle Orient, Turkey
Iraqis went to the polls on Oct. 10 to elect the 329 members of a new parliament, in what is considered one of the most crucial elections since the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. Iraq historically has been the focal point of Turkey’s regional politics due …
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October 24, 2021 Middle Orient
Hezbollah said today it would not be dragged into a civil war, a day after seven Shia were killed in Beirut’s bloodiest street violence in more than a decade, Reuters reports. Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieldin repeated Hezbollah’s accusation that the Christian Lebanese Forces party, a group that had a …
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October 24, 2021 Kavkaz, Middle Orient
In 1991, Israel was one of the first countries to recognise the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. As a neighbour of Iran, Azerbaijan’s expanding relations with Israel have always been one of Tehran’s major security concerns. In the 1990s, 20 per cent of Azerbaijan’s territory was occupied by Armenian …
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October 24, 2021 Iran, Middle Orient
Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi warned of Israel’s growing threats against his country’s nuclear programme, reiterating that the threats should be condemned as a violation of international laws. In a letter submitted to the current president of the Security Council on Wednesday, Ravanchi …
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October 24, 2021 Africa
A top military commander said that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, a kingpin of an extremist organization known as the Islamic State West Africa Province, had died. A leading figure in a terrorist group that has declared an affiliation with the Islamic State and destabilized a vast region in West-Central Africa has …
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October 24, 2021 Middle Orient
Late last week, deadly clashes erupted in Lebanon, resulting in at least seven dead and thirty wounded. Lebanon is in the throes of what some experts have labeled “state collapse,” as the economy bottoms out and images evoking the country’s fifteen-year civil war play out on television and social media. …
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