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Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing
25.04.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing Via Middle East Eye Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear program after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase. Before the recent...
Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests'
25.04.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests' A 33-year old Iranian activist and rapper who has recently been involved in anti-government demonstrations has been handed a shockingly draconian sentence by an Iranian court. Toomaj Salehi was first arrested in Oct. 2022 for publicly backing the so-called 'anti-hijab' protests...
Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington
23.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington Via The Cradle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Foreign Minister of the south Caucasus republic Abkhazia during an interview published on 21 April that Damascus holds dialogue with Washington "from time to time." In response to a question from Abkhazian Foreign Minister Inal...
Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties?
13.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can The US And Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties? Authored by James Durso via ResponsibleStatecraft.org, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is in Washington next week with both sides hoping to expand their economic relationship... Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons...
"Turkish People Demanded Change": Erdogan Suffers Shocking Defeat In Country's Municipal Elections
01.04.2024, 03:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Turkish People Demanded Change": Erdogan Suffers Shocking Defeat In Country's Municipal Elections In a historic upset, Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow yet in Saturday's nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president's...
In Turkey, Atlanticism Does Not Mean Liberalism
01.02.2024, 20:32 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Ankara finally ratified Stockholm’s NATO accession, but it must still find a democratic resolution to the Kurdish question....
ISIS Kills At Least 14 Syrian Soldiers In Palmyra Bus Attack
11.01.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ISIS Kills At Least 14 Syrian Soldiers In Palmyra Bus Attack Via The Cradle, ISIS militants attacked a military bus in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing at least 14 Syrian army soldiers, the anti-Assad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. "At least 14 members of the regime forces were killed" and several others wounded "in a bloody...
Turkey: America's Worst Ally?
08.01.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turkey: America's Worst Ally? Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, Turkey is simultaneously one of the most important and worst of U.S. and NATO allies. Most recently, it denied transit to two British minehunters that would have disabled Russian munitions and helped transport Ukrainian grain. Last year, Turkey annoyed the West with a tanker...
Erdogan On The Attack Again, Says Netanyahu 'No Different Than Hitler'
27.12.2023, 20:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Erdogan On The Attack Again, Says Netanyahu 'No Different Than Hitler' Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has continued to heap denunciations and insults on Israel in relation to its military operation in Gaza and the immense civilian death toll. Since the Israeli military's major offensive in the wake of Oct.7, Erdogan's verbal attacks have grown, taking...
Luongo: No One Has Really Grokked How Big The Suez/Houthi Gambit Is
23.12.2023, 13:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Luongo: No One Has Really Grokked How Big The Suez/Houthi Gambit Is Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, We’ve had a lot of foreshadowing of the Suez Canal being a major hotspot for conflict over the past couple of years. Think back to the Evergreen beaching itself in the canal in 2021. Everyone is just now waking up to the idea...
Erdogan Finally Submits Sweden's NATO Bid To Turkish Parliament, With $20BN F-16 Deal Looming
24.10.2023, 16:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Erdogan Finally Submits Sweden's NATO Bid To Turkish Parliament, With $20BN F-16 Deal Looming Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted Sweden's bid to Turkey's parliament for the first time. The move happened Monday, at a moment the globe's attention has switched from Russia-Ukraine to the Israel-Gaza war, and has brought Stockholm's entrance...
Rickards: Is The World Falling Apart?
19.10.2023, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rickards: Is The World Falling Apart? Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Is the world coming apart at the seams? It would seem so... Of course, there are always wars going on somewhere and hot spots waiting to erupt. That’s the steady state of the world. But some periods are far more dangerous either because the conflicts are more...
Erdogan Wants to Solve the Kurdish Problem with Assad
07.01.2023, 01:17 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to … The post Erdogan Wants to Solve the Kurdish Problem with Assad appeared first...
Nato Expansion and Turkey
17.05.2022, 07:00 Uhr. Craig Murray - https: - I am in Turkey because, if there is to be movement in ending the war in Ukraine, it will happen here. President Erdogan’s firm stance on a potential veto of Swedish and Finnish NATO membership is framed in public only in relation to perceived support by those countries for Kurdish resistance groups. But of course […] The post Nato Expansion...
Syria - Trump`s `Keep The Oil` Occupation Runs Into Trouble
13.08.2020, 22:05 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Turkey`s occupation of some areas in north Iraq is in trouble as is the U.S. occupation of northeast Syria. Turkey has for some time taken positions inside north Iraq to prevent Kurdish PKK fighters from infiltrating into Turkey. It also uses drones to hit PKK positions. The corrupt leader of the ruling Kurdish clan in north Iraq, Masoud Barzani, has...
Kurdish youngster murdered in Afrin for refusing to go to Libya
07.07.2020, 08:24 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - According to the human rights organization Afrin-Syria, 18-year-old Mihemed Mistefa Yusif was found hanged from a walnut tree in front of his house in the village of Mêrkan in Mabeta district of Afrin. His family had moved to Mêrkan after the Turkish-backed militia Liwa Samarkand confiscated their house in Hec Qasim....
U.S. Foreign-Policy Perpetual Perfidy
01.03.2020, 15:22 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups. But the indignation over the latest U.S. policy shift in the Middle East is...
US sets up new military bases in northeast Syria — Anadolu
14.02.2020, 13:46 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The United States has been setting up new military bases in northeastern Syria to gain foothold in oil-rich regions of the country, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency has reported. According to the agency’s sources, US servicemen started creating a base near Tal Brak, a village in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, in a bid to block Russian servicemen the...
Chaos in Iraq may further US regional strategy
05.02.2020, 14:29 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The absence of former Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani is beginning to be felt in Iraq. The two meetings that US President Donald Trump had with the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, and Iraqi President Barham Salih in Switzerland on January 22 on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum are symptomatic of Washington’s...
Iran`s Missile Launch Against Two U.S. Bases in Iraq Calls Trump`s Bluff - Updated Updated below
10.01.2020, 07:41 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Last night Iran fired 22 Qiam missiles towards two U.S. bases in Iraq. Between 1:45 and 2:15 local time (~22:00 UTC) seventeen missiles hit the Ain al Assad airbase west of Ramadi. Five missiles were aimed at Erbil airport in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq. There were no casualties. The Swiss embassy in Tehran, which represents the U.S., was warned...
Iraq at the Crossroads: either Prime Minister al-Suheil or President Salih have to resign
22.12.2019, 22:11 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Well-informed sources in Baghdad said “the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parliamentary delegations will meet to discuss the impeachment of President Barham Salih due to his violation of the constitution by refusing to announce the name of the new Prime Minister, Dr Qusay al-Suheel”. The source expects the street also to mobilise against the Iraqi President...
Russia won’t cooperate with US on Syrian oil fields: Deputy FM
08.11.2019, 17:32 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The remarks came shortly after Turkish media reported that two new American military bases are under construction in Syria’s oil-rich northeastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. Also on Tuesday, Syrian government forces reportedly entered an oilfield in the country’s northeastern province of Hasakah, as they continue to deploy in areas close to the border...
Israel admits aiding Kurdish militants in Syria
06.11.2019, 22:51 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Israel’s deputy foreign minister has admitted aiding Kurdish militants in Syria amid a Turkish incursion into the Arab country....
Trump Slides an American Foot in the Door in Syria
03.11.2019, 07:49 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - At first glance, it would appear to be a businessman’s plan to plunder the profits of Syria, and he has quoted profits expected and even ear-marked the profits to support the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who are a Syrian Kurdish militia who had been on the US payroll as mercenaries in the past fight against ISIS....
How the US is Trying to Play Turkey against Russia in Syria
31.10.2019, 17:36 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Whereas Trump’s telephonic conversation with Erdogan opened the way for a US exit from (northern) Syria and Turkey’s subsequent incursions into Syria against Kurdish militias, the very fallout of Turkish operation in Syria has led to events that appear to be at the centre of US efforts to ‘appease’ Turkey in such a way as to not only to make...
Something Stinks in Syria’s Oil Fields
28.10.2019, 11:36 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - When the US “withdrew” from Syria, Donald Trump announced that he had secured Syria’s oil from ISIS and was protecting it. Further announcements indicated the US was leaving 500 troops there and would be moving in heavy armor, this being done well outside the purview of agreements with Russia and certainly in violation of Syria’s sovereignty...
NATO on the brink of implosion
28.10.2019, 11:14 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Germany, Benelux and France have called for a military intervention in north eastern Syria, both against the armed forces of Syria and Turkey (a NATO member), and in support of YPG Kurdish militias. For their part, the United States and Turkey argued that US forces did not have a mandate to justify their presence in Syria, and that Turkey was legally...
Lira Jumps On Reports Of Turkish Deal With Russia Over Northern Syria "Safe Zone"
22.10.2019, 22:03 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Update (1315ET): Turkey`s Erdogan says deal reached with Russia for Kurdish fighters to move out of Syrian border area within 150 hours establishing a "safe zone" inside Syria. As Haaretz reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that talks with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan had yielded what he called momentous results for Syria...
Turkey, Russia agree to remove Kurdish militants from NE Syria, launch joint patrols
22.10.2019, 21:53 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Russia and Turkey have reached a deal to establish a safe zone long sought by Ankara in northern Syria, which will see Kurdish militants operating in the region removed to beyond 30 kilometers from the Turkish border....
The US Didn’t Foresee a Russia-Turkey Surprise in Syria
21.10.2019, 11:00 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - When the US president tweeted about withdrawing from Syria and letting Turkey move its forces in to take control of areas hitherto under Kurdish control, Donald Trump was probably thinking of Turkey as more of a ‘NATO-ally’ allowing him to fulfil his promise of ending America’s “useless wars” in the Middle East. Little did he seem to know...
Kurdistan, imagined by French colonialism
20.10.2019, 20:44 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Contrary to popular belief, Rojava is not a state for the Kurdish people, but a French fantasy of the interwar period. The aim was to create a rump state with Kurds equivalent to Greater Israel, which was being considered with Jews. This colonial objective was reactivated by Presidents Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron including the ethnic cleansing of the...
Everything you need to know about NE Syria, the Kurds & Turkish invasion
20.10.2019, 19:16 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Kevork Almassian of Syriana Analysis addresses the recent security developments in North-Eastern #Syria, particularly the Turkish invasion to create the so-called safe zone, #Erdogan-Pense agreement and the #Kurdish question....
Media And Pundits Misread The `Everyone Wins` Plan For Syria
19.10.2019, 09:18 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The U.S. media get yesterday`s talks between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all wrong. Those talks were just a show to soothe the criticism against President Donald Trump`s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeast Syria. The fake negotiations did not change the larger win-win-win-win plan or the...
Winners and Losers in the Turkish attack on Kurds in Syria? Part 2 of 3
18.10.2019, 09:50 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Turkish forces invaded north-east Syria (NES) only when it had coordinated with the US to define the red line of the invasion. Moreover, both superpowers, the US and Russia, protected Turkey by blocking an EU-drafted UN resolution to halt the Turkish advance. Turkey refused to allow the US to arm, train and give an independent state to the Syrian Kurds...
Govt. forces enter Raqqah in northern Syria, establish observation posts
16.10.2019, 19:08 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Units of Syrian government forces have entered the strategic northern city of Raqqah and begun setting up some observation posts there, amid a ground offensive by the Turkish military and allied militants against Kurdish forces in the war-ravaged Arab country....
Cautious Optimism on Turks and Kurds
15.10.2019, 18:44 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Amid the usual hysterics of ‘impending genocide’ and ‘brutal betrayal’, the long-expected Turkish operation in northeast Syria is rolling, and Turkish troops accompanied by their Syrian rebel allies quickly advance into the former US occupation zone east of the Euphrates River, pushing the Kurdish nationalist militias away from the border. The...
Kurds face stark options after US pullback
15.10.2019, 18:36 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The predominant Western narrative credits the Syrian Democratic Forces, mostly Kurdish, for fighting and defeating Islamic State, also known as Daesh. The SDF is essentially a collection of mercenaries working for the Pentagon against Damascus. But many Syrian citizens argue that ISIS was in fact defeated by the Syrian Arab Army, Russian aerial and...
Is Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Gambit an Anti-Impeachment Card? How Trump Uses This to Win in 2020
14.10.2019, 19:09 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Joaquin Flores - The 19th century Baptist Particular preacher from England, Charles Spurgeon, is best known for the one-line wisdom: “A lie spreads half way around the world while the truth is putting on his shoes.” But what of half-truths, do they spread a quarter-way, or a third? Are these more like lies, or more like the truth? By now the half-truth...
Turkey Warns Of War As Syrian Army Heads To Turkish Border
13.10.2019, 23:33 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - update2: A top Turkish official warns of bigger escalation now that Syrian Army units appear to be heading to besieged Kurdish towns along the border with Turkey. Erdogan aide Yasin Aktay has said "conflict between the two armies" is likely if pro-Assad forces enter the northeast region which has now been abandoned by US troops. * * * update: It`s official...
Syrian army units move north to `confront Turkish aggression`
13.10.2019, 23:08 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The Syrian army has dispatched several units to the northern part of the country to confront a ground offensive by the Turkish military and allied militants from the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) on border towns under the control of Kurdish communities. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported on Sunday evening that Syrian Arab Army units have...
Syrian army moves to confront Turkish assault in N Syria: state media
13.10.2019, 23:08 Uhr. Net News Global - xinhuanet.com - Syrian army`s move came after reaching an alleged deal with the Kurdish forces on entering the cities of Manbij and Ayn al-Arab, in order to strip Turkey of the pretext to attack Kurish-controlled areas in northern Syria....
The Syrian Army has entered Manbij in northern Syria
13.10.2019, 20:46 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - All checkpoints have been opened as the SAA enters the city in response to the Turkish invasion. SDF and internal Kurdish security structures will be maintained and preserved....
US to Pull Out 1,000 Troops from Northern Syria Amid Turkish Offensive
13.10.2019, 18:52 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The US army is evacuating around 1,000 troops from Northern Syria "as safely and quickly as possible", Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated, days after President Donald Trump opened the door for Ankara`s cross-border attack on regions held by Kurdish militias whom Washington called an ally....
Turkey-Supported Syrian Opposition Take Kurdush-Controlled Ras Al Ain
13.10.2019, 10:22 Uhr. Net News Global - alwaght.com - Turkey-backed Syrian opposition militias have reportedly seized Ras Al Ain town in northeast Syria as the Turkish operation against the Syrian Kurdish groups entered its fourth day....
A Turkish-Russian entente cordiale in the making
13.10.2019, 09:28 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - There has been widespread criticism in the Beltway that the US is jeopardising its Kurdish partners on the ground and unleashing unpredictable consequences for Syria — and, above all, badly damaged US credibility. Some forewarn that Syrian conflict is intensifying just when the embers were cooling. Some of this criticism may be true. Because, Turkey...
Syrian army set to take control of Manbij from SDF under Russia-US deal: Sputnik
13.10.2019, 09:01 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The Syrian military is reportedly poised to take over Manbij from US-backed Kurdish militants in an attempt to prevent the northern city`s fall to the Turkish army....
Debunking the Putin and Netanyahu/Israel work together canard (final installment)
12.10.2019, 20:18 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - This will not be an analysis or even a commentary. Neither am I siding with, or expressing support for, the Turkish military operation in norther Syria. Finally, I am not discussing the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Kurdish Independence movement. All I propose to do here, is to draw your attention to a series of facts and logical imperatives which...
On the Geo-Politics of Turkish Incursion into Syria
12.10.2019, 09:32 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - Despite the fact that Turkey has been defying the US as of recently with regard to its purchase of Russian S-400 missile system, the US president has finally conceded to its NATO partner’s long-standing demand of invading northern Syria and wipe out the Kurdish militias. This is a critical decision since Kurdish militias were the main US ground allies...
Betrayal of the Kurds, Trump Joins His Predecessors, but Why?
11.10.2019, 20:19 Uhr. Net News Global - https: - The Kurds exist in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran in significant numbers. The land the occupy changes as they have both been ethnically cleansed and acted as “ethnic cleansers” when backed by the US. Thus, Syrians have always had a Kurdish population north of Aleppo and in some Eastern regions but generally deny a historical Kurdish region in Hasakah...