May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using ‘neutral’ language in depicting the crisis in Palestine are harming the Palestinian people beyond their seemingly innocuous words. This morally …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, South East Asia
The timing of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade yesterday was far from accidental: exactly 25 years before, Nato forces bombed the city’s Chinese embassy during Operation Allied Force, the two-and-half month campaign against what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Given the Nato campaign was justified by the …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Amid escalating regional tensions since October 7 last year and reports of American contemplations of troop withdrawal from Syria, the US administration should reassess its Syria policy, and consider a long-term, minimalist presence coupled with robust political and diplomatic efforts in the interest of regional security and peace. The ongoing …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Islamic State (IS) is a transnational Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group. At its 2015 height, the group controlled large areas of Iraq and Syria from which it launched attacks in the region and beyond. While the group no longer controls territory outright in Syria and Iraq, U.S. military …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be released before it would stop the bombing, while Hamas said that the bombing must stop first. Israel has …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
“The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don’t officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel…. In electronic products, there are tens of thousands of components, but if even one component doesn’t arrive, we cannot deliver the product.” — Unnamed senior figure in a …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Kavkaz
Just like the Azov Battalion and other ultra-nationalists played a key role in the spree of urban terrorism known as EuroMaidan despite their small numbers, so too does the Georgian Legion envisage doing the same in Tbilisi nowadays. The Georgian State Security Service strongly implied that the Georgian Legion is …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The new head of the army’s Central Command has overseen several major army major operations and stood by as settlers carried out pogroms in the occupied West Bank Brigadier General Avi Bluth, an extremist religious settler, has been appointed to the position of Central Command commander of the Israeli army, …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Nearly 500 healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since 7 October Palestinian orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh, who served as the head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital, was killed in an Israeli detention center after being imprisoned for more than four months. According to a …
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May 10, 2024 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah reported on 5 May. The Provincial Directorate of …
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