November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Israeli prime minister may take a page out of Yasser Arafat’s book in order to get out of his perilous political predicament. In a conversation with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is said to have expressed concern about Israel’s role in escalating tensions along …
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November 22, 2023 Afghanistan, Eurasia, South East Asia
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan estimate the cost of construction of the Trans-Afghan railway at almost $7 billion, Kun.uz News Agency reported on Thursday. Recently, the head of the Ministry of Transport, Ilkhom Mahkamov, held negotiations in Pakistan with local industry departments and large transport and logistics companies NLC-Logistics and TCS, …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia
Almost all of Wagner’s mercenaries have already left Syria on planes departing from the Khmeimim air base, and the remaining few dozen are handing over weapons to the military and processing documents. The history of Russia’s Wagner Private Military Company in Syria is actually over. Only a few dozen mercenaries …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia
The controversial 2002 letter explains the al-Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind’s reasons for attacking the United States. A 2002 letter written by late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden resurfaced and started trending on TikTok and then on X, channeling antisemitic and hateful messaging on the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia
The regional geostrategic reorientation that’s presently unfolding in the “Greater Caucasus” is leading to Azerbaijan becoming a pivotal player in multipolar processes while Armenia is becoming the greatest such obstacle to them. The West had hitherto attempted to maintain the pretense of neutrality towards the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict and particularly its …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia
Sunday’s march… attracted over 100,000 people, five times larger than the pro-Palestine demo. There were also many Muslim figures [Sunday] including imams of mosques who ignored the “advice” of the Grand Mosque of Paris not to attend. Anti-Semitism isn’t a byproduct of the Israel-Palestine conflict; it is an evil in …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
While many the world over had the integrity to condemn “the hideous crime, naming its perpetrators and acknowledging Israel’s basic right to defend itself against the atrocity,” the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches were unable to muster up such moral clarity. While the IDF goes out of its way to …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Since the beginning of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, and especially since the entry of IDFforces, the pressure on the civilian residents of the Gaza Strip has increased significantly. Theyare trying to cope with the price they have been forced to pay and to internalize the extent ofthe destruction …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, India, Middle Orient
In the wee hours of 7 October, 2023, Hamas, the Palestinian Resistance group based in Gaza, launched a surprise attack on Israel, code named operation Al-Aqsa flood; it started firing rockets and sending gunmen across the border, who took hostages. The Israeli military has responded with heavy airstrikes and a …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Pentagon says US bases across Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 55 times since the start of the Gaza-Israel war The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on 17 November its forces attacked three US bases in Syria and Iraq. “In response to the crimes committed by the …
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