Turkey, Russia and the likelihood of a multipolar new world
By: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Even if World War II was won by allied powers, the real winner of the war was the U.S. As the two-pole world order was being established, the U.S. was the [ More … ]
By: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Even if World War II was won by allied powers, the real winner of the war was the U.S. As the two-pole world order was being established, the U.S. was the [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* Turkey’s involvement in Syria via Jarabulus has undoubtedly brought hope for the Syrian people. Because, in every place Turkey stepped into, the inhabitants of that place returned to their homes and those [ More … ]
Palestinian movement Hamas has condemned a U.S. decision to place a group leader into the list of “world terrorists”. The State Department on Friday designated Fathi Hammad, a former Hamas interior minister, as a Specially [ More … ]
ISIS fighters shot down a military plane belonging to Assad regime in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Sunday. “A warplane belonging to the Assad regime was [ More … ]
In an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, Russia has accused the US of defending ISIS group in Syria after the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Assad regime’s soldiers near Deir Ezzor in Syria. The United States [ More … ]
The leader of a rebel group in Syria, that has recently split from al-Qaeda, has condemned the US and Russian-brokered ceasefire, saying it places Washington and the UN on the side of Bashar Assad and [ More … ]
U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a position for Assad regime forces at Jebel Tharda near Deir Ezzor airport on Saturday, killing dozens of Assad regime’s soldiers, Russia and a war monitor said, paving the way for [ More … ]
The partial cease-fire in Syria’s crisis is welcome news. But it must not be allowed to obscure a dangerous new development — the emergence from the war of a Russian-Iranian military axis that could upset [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned the US commitment to the ceasefire agreement in Syria, saying he hoped US would work to achieve their commen goal and break its ties with the “terrorists” in Syria. Under [ More … ]
The humanitarian aid convoys that were sent to Syria’s besieged Aleppo city have been stuck for yet another day, as Assad regime airstrikes and the fighting outside Damascus raised concerns about whether a fragile ceasefire [ More … ]
One need not espouse the hardline ideology of Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham to agree with its view that the new “cessation of hostilities”, brokered by Russia and the United States, “will only serve to [ More … ]
The U.S. told Russia on Friday it will not set up a committee to enable joint targeting of militants in Syria until humanitarian aid begins to flow to the besieged city of Aleppo and other [ More … ]
The Syria ceasefire deal unveiled by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on September 10, is a diplomatic coup for Russia. Moscow has reconfirmed its status as a powerbroker [ More … ]
After three days which saw a marked decrease in violence and no deaths in Syria, the first civilians since the start of the ceasefire agreement were killed on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for [ More … ]
By: Tamer Korkmaz* Racist Dutch “Freedom” Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders is an antagonist of Islam, who, in his election manifesto, vowed to “ban the Quran and close mosques.” This very same Wilders spilled the [ More … ]
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