May, 2023

• 5 May

  Türkiye eliminates top PKK/KCK terrorist in northern Iraq

  

  The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Thursday announced that it eliminated a “high-ranking” member of the PKK/KCK terrorist group in a pinpoint operation in the northern Iraqi region of Gara. Ahmet Gümüş, codenamed “Cudi Engizek,” had been the so-called training officer of the KCK/PKK terrorists since 2022, the agency said, …

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• 5 May

  Senior ISIS leader confirmed dead in Syria raid, US says

  

  Centcom claims a helicopter assault led to the death of an individual responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe A senior ISIS Syria leader has been killed after US forces conducted a targeted raid in the north of the country on Monday, Central Command says. Washington …

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• 5 May

  Arab League calls emergency meeting on crisis in Sudan, readmitting Syria

  

  The Arab League will address Syria’s readmittance to the alliance and the ongoing violence in Sudan. The Arab League will meet this Sunday to discuss Sudan and Syria, as violence rages in Khartoum and the debate heats up on readmitting the Syrian government to the organization. Agence France-Presse reported that …

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• 5 May

  Should the US worry about China’s expanding influence in the Gulf?

  

  The meeting between Raisi and Palestinian officials comes days after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel in response to the death of Islamic Jihad prisoner Khader Adnan. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi met on Thursday with senior Palestinian representatives from militant groups in the …

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• 5 May

  Syria’s Kurds turn to UAE to ease tensions with Assad

  

  An alleged trip to the UAE capital by Syrian Democratic Forces chief Mazloum Kobane, which Emirati officials deny, came just before he was targeted by a Turkish drone last month. The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria is seeking the United Arab Emirates’ help to broker a deal with the Syrian …

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• 4 May

  Why did Iran seize a US-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman?

  

  Neither side has acknowledged whether Iran’s capture of the Turkish-operated fuel tanker was a tit-for-tat move. Iran and the United States have again found themselves on opposite sides as they provided contradictory accounts of events that led to Tehran’s seizure of an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Iran’s …

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• 4 May

  Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?

  

  From Wagner’s crimes and fake pretexts to the UN’s inaction, the Iraq invasion offered a preview of the Ukraine war. But not all is the same. Twenty years ago, on May 1, 2003, then-United States President George W Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, a giant …

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• 4 May

  Winners and Losers in Sudan: On Proxy Wars and Superpower Rivalries in the Global South

  

  The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war, and the recent US-Chinese tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In fact, the US debacle in Iraq and the Middle East, and the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan were only signs of the decline …

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• 4 May

  Euro-imperialism ready for new colonial wars in Africa

  

  Where is Danish foreign policy headed? Everything now revolves around the war in Ukraine and rearmament against Russia, which is quite openly called our enemy, and where sanctions are being extended and trade and contacts are being cut off in all areas. NATO now also talks about China in its …

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• 4 May

  Italian Defense Minister Visits Iraq To Strengthen Bilateral Ties, Cooperation

  

  Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto met with Iraqi political leaders on Tuesday to discuss bilateral ties and cooperation. During the meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani commended Italy’s role in assisting Iraq in combating terrorism, according to a statement from the prime minister’s media office. Al Sudani also …

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