Source: CNN The first is the United States. Trump is unpredictable; with his election victory, American politics are now even more so. Admittedly, the Republicans hold both the White House and Congress, but, to put it mildly, not every Republican is a Trump supporter. The skepticism is especially marked when […]
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out a tit-for-tat response after the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats amid a row over hacking. He said Russia would not “stoop” […]
Source: Aljazeera The Syrian government and rebel groups have agreed a nationwide ceasefire from midnight (22:00 GMT) on Thursday. The deal was announced by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and confirmed […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Armed men wearing YPG uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces as US special operations ride in the back of a pickup truck in the village of Fatisah in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016. (AFP Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is right in […]
Reuters International DEC 28, 2016 – A general view shows damage in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki (reuters_tickers) By Orhan Coskun and Ellen Francis ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia have prepared an agreement for a ceasefire in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said […]
Source: BBC The main flight recorder from the Russian jet that crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday has revealed that faulty flaps were to blame, Russian media say. The […]
Reuters International DEC 27, 2016 – 09:19 Free Syrian Army fighters fire an anti-aircraft weapon in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Sunday 25 December 2016 Russian rescuers carry a stretcher with passenger belongings after a Russian military plane crashed in the Black Sea. (AFP) MOSCOW: A Russian military plane crashed on its way to Syria on Sunday, with no sign of survivors among the […]
Dec 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Javier Solana As 2016 comes to an end, the outlook for 2017 is shrouded in uncertainty. Tensions in the Middle East are rising, and populist movements have appeared in Europe and the United States. In the Middle East, the tragic conflict in Syria continues, despite […]
Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The centuries turn over, the big players evolve, the local battlefields change, but the results remain the same: when external military powers intervene in the Middle East to secure their national interests, the result is inevitably local chaos that also generates retaliations […]
Dec 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted to Monday’s assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, by vowing to redouble efforts to normalise relations between their countries. Ties have been strained by the war in Syria, where […]
Source: The Independent By Mary Dejevsky There will be claims, in the aftermath, that the anti-Assad opposition was betrayed by its Western backers, and accusations of ‘appeasement’ – but the […]
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises. Though enough voters appear to have liked what they heard to make Trump President, some of those pledges, like deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning Muslims from entering the country, are unlikely ever to be […]
Source: BBC Russia’s intelligence services are to develop extra security measures for its embassies following the killing of its ambassador to Turkey. Andrei Karlov was shot dead as he gave a speech on Monday in Ankara. The gunman, Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, an Ankara policeman, was apparently protesting at Russia’s […]
Source: CNN On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired into an open-top car traveling through the streets of Sarajevo, carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Within a month, the assassination set off a chain reaction that unleashed World War […]
Source: Aljazeera With Russia’s support, unanimous vote to monitor evacuations from Syrian city marks rare agreement between world powers. Evacuees from east Aleppo arrived at rebel-held al-Rashideen [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters] With […]
Source: Aljazeera Russia’s ambassador to Ankara has been shot and killed in a gun attack in the Turkish capital, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Andrey Karlov was several minutes into a […]
Reuters International DEC 16, 2016 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Andrew Osborn and Nick Tattersall MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said he and his Turkish […]
Source: Time President Obama sent a warning to Russia and any other countries looking to engage in cyberattacks against the U.S. during his final press conference from of 2016 on […]
(Friday, December 16th, 2016 As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the fact that the Muslim world has failed the people of Syria. Even though many nations and organizations (especially the United States […]