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Lebanon Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib resigned this week citing failure to form a new government amid political gridlock. Lebanon has been without an empowered government since the cabinet resigned in August in the wake of the deadly Beirut port explosion. Crisis Group expert Heiko Wimmen says while political elites fight …

Syrian fighters say they were deceived into fighting and were led to believe that they would protect military points rather than fight against Armenian forces, Al-Masdar reports

Local sources say that the area’s population opposed the arrival of Russian troops, SY 24 reports The Russian Army tried to establish a new military base in the areas under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, which was met with popular refusal, forcing it to …

Yet more trucks belonging to Hussam al-Qatirji have collected oil from Kurdish held areas and transported it to regime held lands reports Baladi News. Oil tanks belonging to Hussam al-Qatirji continue to enter the areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to transport oil to the regime-held areas.

David Schenker, the US assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said: “We will not tolerate threats to our citizens who serve abroad”. Iraqi Kurdistan’s counterterrorism service blamed Wednesday an attack on US troops near Erbil airport on the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of mostly Iran-backed …

Turkey and Russia are moving counter the international efforts led by the United States to impose a new political settlement in Libya, which brings the spectre of war to the fore again about a month and a half after the rival parties in the conflict announced a ceasefire following a …

What we are witnessing is an Arab autocrat (Abbas) seeking the help of a Muslim autocrat (Erdogan) in holding “free and fair” elections. Abbas, it seems, is confident that Erdogan’s observers would rubber-stamp the results of any Palestinian election to ensure that the PA president emerges victorious

A November 2019 agreement between Turkey and Libya determines a portion of Turkey’s maritime rights in the region.

A well-informed source told Zaman Al-Wasl that Wagner Group, a Russian military security contractor, is recruiting Syrian mercenaries that will be trained and transferred to Belarus to protect the Russian interests as well as to stand with the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: As is typically the case with next-generation platforms, the VKS is not concerned with immediate value. Rather, they see the Su-57 as a long-term investment that will incrementally phase out older aircraft to become Russia’s staple air superiority platform over the coming decades. In …