November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Sheikh Ibrahim Rida, an Islamic scholar at Egypt’s renowned Al-Azhar University, said on a November 6, 2023 show on Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt) that the Jews are quarrelsome people who killed many prophets and spread corruption on earth. He said that no one should find it strange that they are …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
In the recent weeks, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar institution, the leading center of religious learning and supreme source of religious authority in the Sunni Muslim world, and senior members of this institution, have been voicing support for Hamas and for terrorism and inciting against the U.S. and Israel, while using virulently …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Terrible as the Gaza war’s toll has already been, it would get worse if sustained fighting were to erupt between the U.S. and Iran or its Middle East allies. Crisis Group experts Brian Finucane, Lahib Higel, Naysan Rafati and Ali Vaez lay out the dangers. What is happening? The United …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, South East Asia
It would be premature to conclude that their prior implied talks about a “New Détente”, or a series of mutual compromises across multiple domains aimed at reaching a “new normal” in their ties, are back on track. Too much has happened since February’s balloon incident derailed that grand strategic trajectory, …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was said to have observed “the guerrilla must swim in the people as the fish swims in the sea”. It is a lesson known to terrorists and revolutionaries from the IRA to the Taliban and is likely to explain the …
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November 22, 2023 Afghanistan, Eurasia, Pakistan, South East Asia
Tensions over anti-Pakistan TTP terrorist group, expulsion of Afghan refugees will have implications for U.S. interests. On November 8, in an unprecedented press conference, Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar offered a blistering critique of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He announced that the Taliban leadership was supporting the …
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November 22, 2023 Eurasia
In the absence of a political horizon for Palestinians, Israel may opt for the most terrible alternative of all. October 7 was many things for Israel, but above all it was a confirmation that the ambitions of the country’s present leadership are at an impasse. Hamas’s attack against Israeli towns …
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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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