December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
In July, Fatah and Hamas announced that they have reached agreement to work together to topple Israeli and US “conspiracies.” Efforts to end the Fatah-Hamas rift suffered yet another blow as Hamas said on Monday that the Palestinian Authority was continuing its crackdown on supporters of the Islamist movement in …
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The soldier was seen in a video walking backward instead of responding to a Molotov cocktail attack. The IDF on Monday removed a soldier from his combat position following an incident in which he responded passively to an attack against him.
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The suspect, reportedly a 17-year-old Palestinian from Qabatiya, was armed with a Carlo-type submachine gun and shot at a police post. A terrorist attack took place in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening, Israel Police reported.
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December 25, 2020 Africa, Eurasia
The Egyptian military has reported several operations against Islamist insurgents in the Sinai Peninsula recently.
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Muqtada al-Sadr’s calls to restore the “Shiite Home” were viewed as an attempt to revive the electoral Shiite alliance that cracked during recent legislative elections.
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia
Sudan and Ethiopia have recently agreed to resume the negotiations on the Nile dam that Addis Ababa is building, amid Egyptian silence. Sudan recently backtracked on its position regarding the resumption of its participation in negotiations over the controversial giant hydroelectric dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, as …
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
By modifying its foreign policy goals, the kingdom is bracing itself for the approaching change of administration in Washington.
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
The US sanctions targeting Turkey’s defense industry agency may be seen as rather mild by some observers, but they threaten to deprive Turkey of key military technology should they last more than a year. The new US sanctions against Turkey over its purchase of Russian air defense systems stand to …
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
As Turkey’s ruling party and its nationalist ally face a deeper legitimacy crisis, pressure on Kurdish politics is intensifying. Picture this: You’re watching the evening news and you see a political party emblem — in this case, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) emblem — on which, in place of …
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December 25, 2020 Eurasia
The two main political parties in Northern Ireland announced a deal last month to restore the region’s power-sharing government, which had ceased to function three years ago.
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