November, 2020

• 28 November

  Steinitz to Lebanese president: Let’s negotiate maritime border

  The invitation came in light of Lebanon increasing its demands for more maritime territory than had previously been part of the negotiations with Israel. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called on Lebanese President Michel Aoun to meet in Europe for direct negotiations on the maritime border dispute between Israel and Lebanon, …

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• 28 November

  Egypt adds leading activist, politician to terror watch list

  An Egyptian court placed nearly 30 people, including a leading pro-democracy activist and an Islamist politician, on a terrorism watch list over accusations they joined the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the official gazette reported Monday.

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• 28 November

  Biden’s new secretary of state ready to take on the Middle East

  Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to lead the State Department, has worked alongside Biden for nearly two decades. President-elect Joe Biden named foreign policy veteran Antony Blinken as his pick for Secretary of State on Monday, tasking a trusted aide with fulfilling his campaign pledge to reassert America’s standing …

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• 28 November

  Arab Coalition destroys naval mines planted by Houthis in Red Sea

  The Arab Coalition on Tuesday said it had destroyed five naval mines planted by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in the southern Red Sea.

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• 28 November

  Kurdish and Turkey-backed fighters clash in Syria, 18 killed

  Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition gunmen in northern Syria left at least 18 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish news agency said Tuesday.

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• 28 November

  Erdogan, le sultan voyou

  Les invectives à répétition dont le président turc Erdogan abreuve Emmanuel Macron ont sans doute une visée politique: faire de la Turquie une puissance mondiale et de lui-même un nouveau calife. Elles sont aussi le reflet de son caractère profond, celui d’un homme élevé à la fois à l’école islamique …

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• 28 November

  US Navy Destroyer Takes on Russian Forces in Pacific

  A U.S. Navy destroyer took on Russian forces on Tuesday in a direct challenge to Moscow’s territorial claims in the Pacific. Dispatched from a Navy base in Japan, the USS John McCain set out for Peter the Great Bay in the Western Pacific to combat Russia’s “excessive maritime claims,” according …

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• 28 November

  Putin Discusses Nagorno-Karabakh With Armenian, Azerbaijani Leaders

  Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the implementation of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in separate phone calls with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the Kremlin said on November 24.

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• 28 November

  Israel: UN Security Council must demand Iranian ouster from Syria

  The Syrian regime “continues to allow Iran and its proxies to use its territory… to entrench its presence in Syria.” The United Nations Security Council must demand Iran’s ouster from Syria and condemn attacks by its proxies against Israel from that neighboring territory, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan …

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• 28 November

  Syria blames Israel for overnight strikes

  Strikes reportedly targeted Iranian, Hezbollah targets; 8 pro-Iranian fighters said to have been killed. Syria has blamed Israel for a series of airstrikes on locations south of the capital Damascus and on the Golan Heights late Tuesday night.

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