Arab Dailies Praise Tunisian President Kais Saied: A ‘Second Revolution’ Has ‘Saved Tunisia’ From The Muslim Brotherhood

Tunisian President Kais Saied’s firing of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and his suspension of the parliament and removal of lawmakers’ immunity met with approval from many Arab states. These measures taken by Saied, aimed at removing from power the Ennahda party, headed by parliamentary speaker Rachid Ghannouchi, which is an …

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Exclusive: Taliban Puts Tajik Militants Partially In Charge Of Afghanistan’s Northern Border

When the Taliban captured a strategically important security checkpoint near Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan last month, it assigned a Tajik militant to raise the Taliban flag on the site. The militant goes by the alias Mahdi Arsalon and has a group of fighters from Tajikistan under his command, an eyewitness …

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Iran arrests Mossad agents plotting urban riots, terror; huge cache of weapons seized

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has arrested a network of agents with the Israeli Mossad spy agency at the Western borders, confiscating a large cache of weapons and ammunition that they were planning to use to provoke riots and terror inside the country. The ministry’s director-general for counterintelligence said on Tuesday that …

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Austin Discusses Need for Indo-Pacific Partnerships in the Future

While Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke of the need for partnerships to combat COVID-19, he also said these relationships are also necessary to create a stronger, more prosperous Indo-Pacific for the future – one where no one nation calls the shots. Speaking in Singapore as part of …

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Biden Accuses Russia of Already Interfering in 2022 Election

Russia is already interfering in next year’s midterm U.S. elections, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in a speech at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Referencing the day’s classified briefing prepared by the intelligence community for him, Biden said: “Look at what Russia’s doing already about the …

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Ο Ιάσονας, ο διασώστης, το βραβείο το έχει στην αγκαλιά του!

Mε αφορμή την 47η επέτειο από την αποκατάσταση της Δημοκρατίας η Προεδρία της Δημοκρατίας επρόκειτο να βραβεύσει τον Έλληνα διασώστη Ιάσονα Αποστολόπουλο ο οποίος συμμετέχει εδώ και χρόνια σε πλοία που διασώζουν πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες, και τώρα είναι συντονιστής του «Mare Ionio».

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Υπόθεση Αποστολόπουλου: ή το λέει η καρδιά σου ή κάθεσαι στα αυγά σου

Η είδηση για την ακύρωση της παρασημοφόρησης του Ιάσονα Αποστολόπουλου ανήκει σε μια ξεχωριστή κατηγορία, για τα ελληνικά δεδομένα: είναι από αυτές που δεν κρύβονται. Όταν πρωτοδημοσιεύτηκε στο tvxs, σκεφτόμουν ότι το φιλοκυβερνητικό σύστημα θα προσπαθούσε να την «θάψει». Δεν το κατάφερε για δύο λόγους: -ήταν μεγάλη η αντίδραση στα …

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«Поддерживая талибов, Москве важно не перегнуть палку»

Согласно докладу миссии ООН по содействию Афганистану, в этой стране резко возросло число жертв среди мирного населения. Причина — усилившаяся активность талибов на фоне вывода американских войск. Обозреватель “Ъ” Максим Юсин задумался о противоречивой позиции российских властей в отношении движения «Талибан» (запрещено в России), которое формально запрещено, но с которым, …

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Daesh attack kills seven Syrian troops: Monitor

Daesh group militants killed at least seven soldiers and militiamen in eastern Syria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of deadly attacks, a Britain-based war monitor said. Several government positions came under attack in a desert area of Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Several …

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Making War Obsolete

We should have abolished war after World War II. That war was so lethal and so destructive, even before the dropping of the atomic bombs, that had people understood that there is a real alternative to deadly violent conflict, humanity might have taken another path. Instead, we took the path …

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