November 22, 2022 Eurasia, Iran, Kavkaz, Middle Orient
Iran is increasingly worried over Azerbaijani and Turkish geopolitical gains in the region as calls for “Greater Azerbaijan” push a hot button in Tehran. Tensions are rising between Iran and Azerbaijan over Baku’s plans for a land connection to its exclave of Nakhchivan via Armenian territory, threatening to undermine Turkish-Iranian …
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November 22, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Fears are rising in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast over a potential military incursion by Turkey. Turkey launched airstrikes on Syria’s majority-Kurdish region on Saturday night in apparent retaliation for a bombing that struck a crowded market in Istanbul last week. Syrian Kurdish officials reported strikes in the areas of Kobani, Derik, …
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November 22, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
As the dust settles from airstrikes on Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, Turkey is threatening a wider operation in the region. For months Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to “come suddenly in the night” for Kurdish militants on Turkey’s southern border. On Saturday night, scores of F-16 …
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November 22, 2022 Eurasia
The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level. Former President Trump, and others in the US including some Democrats as well as Republicans, have criticized continued US support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. They have called for military and …
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November 22, 2022 Eurasia
By the beginning of November, EU countries had accumulated more than 100 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. Underground storage across Europe was filled at an average of 94.68%. In Germany, the largest consumer of gas on the continent, storage reached 98.52%. At the same time, the spot price on …
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November 21, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Hamas leaders [who have relocated to Doha]… are using Qatar as a base for calling for the destruction of Israel. Yet this does not seem to bother the rulers of Qatar or its allies in the West, including the US. This is the same Qatar whose leaders claim that they …
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November 21, 2022 Eurasia
La plupart des gens sont déconcertés face à ce qui ressemble à une crise énergétique mondiale : avec des prix du pétrole, du gaz et du charbon qui montent en flèche simultanément, et qui forcent même la fermeture de grandes usines industrielles telles que la chimie, l’aluminium ou l’acier. L’Administration …
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November 21, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Human Rights Watch recently released a disturbing report detailing the involuntary deportation of hundreds of Syrian refugees from Turkey back into the proverbial lion’s den of Assad’s Syria. For those who continue to chronicle the Syrian genocide unleashed by Assad, Iran and Russia on the Syrian people after a popular …
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November 21, 2022 Eurasia, Middle Orient
New military reinforcements reached on Monday to the city of Daraa, south Syria, in preparation for a military campaign by local gunmen against Islamic State Organization (ISIS). The military reinforcements included dozens of vehicles loaded with machine guns and members affiliated with the Syrian government’s military intelligence. A local source …
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November 21, 2022 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
During a meeting with the Syrian Foreign Minister held on Wednesday in Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed the need to fully implement agreements between Iran and Syria. Raisi said that Syria, following several years of crisis, is in a position today that enables it to enter its strategic relations …
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