Eine Perspektive bieten

Mit Kanzlerin Merkel verliert der Westbalkan eine wichtige Unterstützerin. Der EU-Beitritt muss für diese Länder als Perspektive erhalten werden. Wenn Angela Merkel nach 16 Jahren ihr Amt abgibt, verliert der Westbalkan eine seiner wichtigsten Unterstützerinnen – vor allem, wenn es um den EU-Beitritt geht, den Serbien, Montenegro, Albanien, Nordmazedonien, Kosovo …

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Morocco dismantles Daesh-linked cell, arrests three

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a cell of Daesh group-affiliated militants and arrested three suspects accused of plotting an assassination, security services said on Tuesday. The suspects, detained in the southern city of Errachidia, had planned “crimes of a terrorist nature against individuals” and selected a public servant for “imminent assassination”, …

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Mali-Russie : Bamako sur le point de signer un contrat avec une société du groupe Wagner

Le déploiement d’un millier de mercenaires russes est évoqué. Paris s’emploie à faire échouer la signature. Selon nos sources, depuis début septembre, un contrat est prêt à être signé entre l’État malien – représenté par le président de la transition, Assimi Goïta, et son ministre de la Défense, Sadio Camara …

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In Germany’s election, the fate of the EU is at stake

After Merkel, the incoming coalition will have to prove that democracy can meet Europe’s great challenges In Brussels last week, I found everyone waiting for Berlin. In Berlin, I found everyone electrified by an unexpectedly wide-open election. One thing, however, is clear: the new German government will be a coalition, …

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Chwila tryumfu von der Leyen

UE ma chronić wartości, walczyć z pandemią i produkować mikroczipy – mówiła szefowa Komisji Europejskiej. SOTEU to skrót od orędzia o stanie UE (ang. State of the European Union), które przewodniczący Komisji Europejskiej wygłaszają w Parlamencie Europejskim corocznie od 2010 roku. Wzorowany na znacznie starszym przykładzie amerykańskim (tam SOTU ma …

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Assad Shores Up Control in Syria’s Symbolically Important South

For much of the Syrian civil war, the southern city of Deraa and the surrounding Houran Plains, an agricultural region near the Jordanian border, were divided between government forces and armed rebels. Fighting raged back and forth, killing thousands. It was not until Russia backed a government offensive in 2018 …

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Turkey-backed Syrian opposition groups merge under new banner

A group of factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army have formed a new alliance known as the Syrian Liberation Front intended to end the power struggle between Turkey’s allied factions in northern Syria. On Sept. 9, five factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army announced that they …

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Iran’s Raisi to meet Putin as states mull Taliban recognition

In his first foreign visit as Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi will sit down with Russian and Pakistani leaders amid new regional dynamics triggered by the US departure from Afghanistan. President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Thursday to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …

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Turkey’s blind eye to jihadis worsens its predicaments in Syria

Turkey is seeking to downplay the jihadi threat that its troops face in Idlib, the last Islamist stronghold in Syria, opting to turn the spotlight to the Kurds instead. After losing three soldiers in a bomb attack in Idlib, the last bastion of Islamist rebels in Syria, Turkey pounded Syrian …

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Initial Taliban Moves Fail To Convince Afghanistan’s Neighbors – Analysis

The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold freedom of the press is mixed at best. Afghanistan’s neighbours and near-neighbours are not holding their breath even if some are willing to give the Central Asian country’s new …

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