March, 2023

• 2 March

  1 killed as ISIL terrorists renew attack on Iraq’s Diyala

  

  According to the reports, the ISIL terrorist group renewed its attack on the northeast of Diyala province on Monday, leaving an Iraqi citizen killed and two others wounded. The terrorist attack occurred near an area in the east of Lake Hamrin in Iraq’s Diyala Governorate. In another development, the Iraqi …

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• 2 March

  Iraqi army kills 17 ISIL members in Al Anbar

  

  Iraqi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasoul in a statement announced that the country’s anti-terrorism unit clashed with ISIL terrorists on Monday morning in the Akashat area located in the desert of Al Anbar province, killing 17 members and one of the leaders of the group. In December 2017, after …

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• 2 March

  IRGC Quds Force finances terrorism through money laundering scheme

  

  High-level Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commanders have set up a host of shell companies used to launder money in a scheme that was brought to light by documents obtained by Iran International, a Washington DC-based Persian language news organization. According to the Iran International report, the …

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• 2 March

  Turkish intelligence brings top PKK figure from Iraq

  

  Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) caught Ramazan Güneş, a PKK member who was behind 12 acts of terrorism that killed 60 Turkish security personnel in the past, in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah, media outlets reported Tuesday. The Turkish intelligence agency has stepped up its operations abroad in recent years to stamp out …

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• 2 March

  The Reckoning That Wasn’t

  

  Why America Remains Trapped by False Dreams of Hegemony Over the course of many evenings in 1952 and 1953, when I was a kindergartner, my family gathered around a hand-me-down TV in the Chicago housing project where we lived to watch Victory at Sea. With stirring music and solemn narration, …

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• 2 March

  Ukraine War Shattered Europe’s Dream Of Strategic Autonomy – OpEd

  

  Despite all the propaganda around strategic autonomy, Europe has not taken any steps toward it and with the Ukraine war, everything seems to be up in the air. This war has made Europe’s security dependence on the United States even more obvious, and Russia’s nuclear threats once again emphasize the …

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• 2 March

  Would There Be (First) Partition Of Russia Between West And China, If It Is Defeated In Ukraine War? – Analysis

  

  In recent weeks, the prospect of disintegration of the Russian Federation has emerged as one of the major themes in international discourse. Over the last few weeks in the European press and the U.S. press, there have been many comments on the subject. It should be noted that the theme …

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• 2 March

  Ukraine: Intense Fighting Around Bakhmut

  

  Fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is “extremely intense,” a Ukrainian military official said Tuesday, although little territory has changed hands between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s forces. In his nightly address Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the situation in Bakhmut “is getting more and more complicated.” He said …

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• 2 March

  Putin Tells FSB To Raise Its Game Against Western Spy Agencies

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin told the FSB domestic security service on Tuesday (28 February) to step up its activity to counter what he said was increasing espionage and sabotage against Russia by Ukraine and the West. In a speech to officials, Putin said the FSB had to stop “sabotage groups” …

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• 2 March

  US Officials Urge China Not To Ship Arms To Russia

  

  U.S. government officials are doing all they can to discourage China from supplying Russia with arms that could be used to subjugate Ukraine, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday. President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of State Antony Blinken …

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