The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA’s covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two US officials said, a move sought by Assad [ More … ]
U.S. officials are supportive for the permanent revocation of the economic sanctions on Sudan, says Bloomberg, a business and market news agency, in a report released on Thursday. In line with a five-track engagement over [ More … ]
BY: Cahit Tuz* Obama’s presidential election was welcomed in Turkey as well as in many Islamic countries. This positive welcome is not just about his second name being Hussein. The emphasis of withdrawal of US [ More … ]
BY: Tamer Korkmaz* The U.S. Embassy in Israel announced that Jews who were born in any one of seven Islamic countries included in U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban or who are the citizens of those [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Will the joint Raqqa operation that the U.S. wants to launch with Turkey veer from its objective or weaken the Euphrates Shield intervention aimed at preventing the terror corridor in north Syria, which [ More … ]
BY: Hasan Öztürk* The Reina villain has been caught. You have been reading the story for days. But isn’t there something awkward in this story? For example, it was written that the Reina villain was shouting [ More … ]
BY: BURHANETTIN DURAN* Although the incoming Trump administration’s strategy in the global arena remains blurry, it is certain the world will be never the same after the inauguration ceremony Against the backdrop of the U.S. Presidential [ More … ]
By: Taha Kılınç* U.S. Ambassador to Tripoli Christopher Stevens being killed at the CIA headquarters in Benghazi, Libya, on the evening of Sept. 11, 2012, was one of the most extraordinary developments witnessed by the Middle [ More … ]
By: Tamer Korkmaz* Esteban Santiago, a U.S. soldier who was deployed in Iraq, turned himself in after he killed five people at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida. It was revealed that he went to the FBI [ More … ]
BY: HILAL KAPLAN* Barack Obama’s legacy cannot be read separately from the failure in Syria Russia and Assad forces have been mercilessly bombarding Aleppo for days. About 1,000 people are said to have been killed [ More … ]
BY: SERDAR KARAGÖZ* Days after the explosions in New York and New Jersey, nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States Hillary Clinton faced the cameras to demonstrate how serious she was in [ More … ]
BY: Tamer Korkmaz Gülen Terror Organization (FETÖ) leader Fetullah Gülen was listed as one of “The World’s 100 Most Intellectuals Figures” in a 2008 edition of America’s global political magazine, Foreign Policy. Edward Luttwak, one [ More … ]
Iraq and Syria have been so thoroughly damaged by warfare, sectarian conflict and killing that it is unclear they “can be put back together again,” CIA Director John Brennan said. In an interview this week [ More … ]
The Assad regime military was foundering last year, with thousands of rebel fighters pushing into areas of the country long considered to be government strongholds. The rebel offensive was aided by powerful tank-destroying missiles supplied [ More … ]
By: Sinem Köseoğlu* US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass met with a group of journalists in Istanbul last Thursday. As you would appreciate, the US ambassador mentioned that he was quite saddened by the notion that formed [ More … ]
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