August, 2024

• 20 August

  Iran Update, August 19, 2024

  

  The United States, Israel, and international mediators plan to continue ceasefire talks despite Hamas’ rejection of the latest ceasefire-hostage proposal. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on August 19 to discuss the ceasefire-hostage …

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• 20 August

  Iran’s Gaza War: Ceasefire? What Ceasefire?

  

  Hamas is now in dire need of a ceasefire because its leaders want to hold on to power in the Gaza Strip. If the Biden-Harris administration and its Iranian, Qatari and Egyptian allies manage to impose a ceasefire on Israel, it will be viewed by many Arabs and Muslims not …

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• 20 August

  Putin is no longer Russia’s saviour The president appears as impotent as Boris Yeltsin

  

  At the start of this month, Kyiv’s exhausted forces seemed at last overwhelmed by their opponents’ superiority in manpower and firepower. But once again, they have defied expectations. The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ mass incursion into Russian territory has unfolded at lightning speed and with unexpected success. More than 1,000 troops …

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• 20 August

  The No-State Solution Could a ceasefire deal ever appease both sides?

  

  When the guns eventually fall silent in Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians will confront a decades-old reality that cannot be overcome by violence and political half-measures. Both Jews and Palestinians will continue to assert privileged ownership of Palestine, citing centuries of history, the merits of which will never be settled conclusively …

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• 20 August

  Ukraine Reportedly Has A Whopping 120,000 Troops Deployed Along Its Border With Belarus

  

  It would be a mistake for Russia to ignore this large agglomeration of forces since some of them might soon be redeployed to the Donbass and/or Kursk fronts. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told leading Russian media in a recent interview that Ukraine has deployed a whopping 120,000 troops along the …

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• 20 August

  Will Georgia’s Eurasian Pivot Lead to Rapprochement With Russia?

  

  Amid deteriorating relations with the West, Georgia has embarked on a long-term pivot toward Eurasia, with the potential for the further stabilization of relations with Russia. A series of developments in the past couple of months indicates there is a long-term breach emerging between Georgia and its Western partners. What …

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• 20 August

  Why’s Poland Reopening Its Investigation Into The Post-War Resettlement Of Ethnic Ukrainians?

  

  This might have been done upon Ukraine’s demand as part of their newly clinched security pact’s requirement for standardizing historical narratives. The Warsaw District Court recently ordered the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) to reopen its investigation into “Operation Vistula”, which was the forcible post-war resettlement of ethnic Ukrainians and …

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• 20 August

  Nuclear Talk Versus Nuclear Walk: Russia’s Nuclear Strategy

  

  Abstract: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent reiteration of the possibility of Russian nuclear weapon deployment has intensified concerns, particularly in the context of the ongoing conflict resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over two years ago and the West’s sustained support in question. This article aims to comprehensively analyse …

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• 20 August

  The other occupation: US forces in Syria

  

  While the world’s attention has been fixed on the brutalities of the Israeli occupation state, the illegal US military occupation of neighboring Syria has been largely neglected. Now, local and regional resistance is coalescing to target the American occupation head-on. The strategic placement of US military bases in northeastern Syria …

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• 20 August

  Syria’s Arab tribes revolt: US bases and allies become prime targets

  

  The current uprising in Syria’s Deir Ezzor represents the growing armed resistance of local Arab tribes against US-backed Kurdish forces who control their land and resources – potentially opening up a new front for West Asia’s Axis of Resistance. On 7 August, a coalition of Syrian Arab tribes recaptured several …

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