Libya is a setting to a new political movement that is trying to save the political dialogue and break the impasse that has arisen in the political negotiations of the civil war-ravaged North African nation.
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Analysis: Israeli air superiority declining amid resistance camp’s emerging missile might
January 23, 2021 - 10:47 AMYitzhak Brick, an Israeli army official, has warned about a “disaster” as a result of the excessive Israeli reliance on its air force and underestimation of the surface-to-surface missiles that are “encircling Israel.”
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Analysis: “Ban Hamas First”: Netanyahu seeks foisting another sèvres treaty on Erdogan
January 23, 2021 - 10:35 AMIn recent years, Turkey’s entry into the geopolitical rivalries in various parts of the world from the Mediterranean and Central Asia to the Persian Gulf and North Africa left an undeniable influence on the disappearance of Ankara's zero-problem foreign policy with its neighbors.
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Analysis: Biden administration may have roadmap to ISIS revival in Iraq
January 21, 2021 - 8:34 AMMore than two years after the end of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate in Iraq, Iraqi politicians and political factions are engulfed by waves of concerns about Washington's plot to revive the terrorist group in their country...
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Analysis: Why would Biden seek ending Yemen war?
January 21, 2021 - 8:34 AMAs Joe Biden prepares to assume office at the White House, signals coming out of his administration’s West Asia policymakers render Saudi Arabia is concerned about bilateral ties and also Yemen's case.
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Analysis: Why Erdogan shifting to de-escalation with Arab Countries?
January 16, 2021 - 9:52 AMPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Turkish officials in recent months have been engaged in considerable diplomatic moves in the Arab world that can be considered as a prelude to a new Ankara strategy.
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Analysis: Qatar-mediated Iran-Saudi Arabia détente: obstacles, chances
January 16, 2021 - 9:41 AMSaudi reconciliation with Qatar and lifting the blockade imposed on Doha in 2017 and also the signals coming from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for a détente with Ankara are the initial outcomes of such atmosphere.
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Analysis: US ban on Yemeni Ansarullah: What are goals and effects?
January 14, 2021 - 8:09 AMAfter long-time speculations about adding Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement to the so-called US terror blacklist, Mike Pompeo on Monday announced he will inform Congress about the decision in his last full week as Secretary of State.
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Analysis: Three cases of Turkish crimes in Afrin
January 13, 2021 - 10:30 AMRecently Syrian and international rights groups have reported about appalling crimes against humanity in Syria's Afrin three years after Turkey occupied the region.
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Expert: Baku-Yerevan have much to discuss, Putin prevented full Karabakh fall
January 13, 2021 - 10:20 AMOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting between the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan who talked for the first time since October and November fierce war over the disputed Karabakh region.
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Analysis: Barzanis’ greenlight to US stay? Erbil says ISIS poses threats, Baghdad unable to help
January 13, 2021 - 9:58 AMIn the middle of the Iraqi political infighting over the 2021 budget, terrorist groups continue to pose substantial threats to the nation’s political and social structures.
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Analysis: Lebanon’s Hariri in Turkey: A bait or pressure tool?
January 12, 2021 - 11:04 AMWhile a grand economic crisis prevails in Lebanon due to deep-rooted economic challenges and the political parties fail to agree on forming a new cabinet, Lebanon’s Designate-Prime Minister Saad Hariri made a surprise visit to Turkey and talked to President Recept Tayyip Erdogan.
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Analysis: Countering terrorism, US-Israel disinformation war: How is Iran winning a dual-fronted war?
January 12, 2021 - 9:42 AMMaking an address at the anniversary of the historical 1978 Qom uprising that concluded in the fall of the Western-backed monarchy in Iran, the country's Supreme Leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei pointed to the plans by the “overbearing powers” to distortion of realities and said that this is one of the main jobs of their intelligence apparatuses.
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Analysis: Sanctioning commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces may signal US close to raising white flag
January 12, 2021 - 9:30 AMBut it should be taken into account that imposing sanction on the PMF’s commander does not represent blacklisting a single individual but means targeting a specific thought that is against Washington's destabilizing agenda in the region.
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Analysis: Cooperation council’s summit: fragile, imposed détente
January 9, 2021 - 8:10 AMBased on what has so far leaked, the three countries of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain will end their all-out embargo on Qatar and reopen their borders with it and in return, Doha will suspend its lawsuits against the three countries with the international organizations.
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Analysis: How are Al-Kadhimi cabinet’s stances on US exit contradictory?
January 9, 2021 - 8:00 AMAl-Kadhimi noted that the aim of the strategic talks with Washington was the exit of the American forces from the country and promised that over half of them will leave in the coming days.
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Analysis: What’s behind Yemeni Ansarullah Anti-Israeli threats?
January 6, 2021 - 8:07 AMYemen's Ansarullah recently announced the resistance movement is ready to release two captive Saudi pilots in return for release of Palestinian Hamas' captives held by Saudi Arabia. One of the important aspects of this suggestion is the open confrontation of Sana’a to the Israeli interests in the Arabian Peninsula and solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
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Analysis: Bahrain-Qatar old disputes resurfacing amid pro-reconciliation efforts
January 4, 2021 - 9:09 AMTensions between Bahrain and Qatar are escalating and presenting an essential challenge to the efforts done during the past few months to end the three-year crisis within the body of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council while the six-member bloc is nearing its leaders-level summit in Riyadh.
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Analysis: Gaza first-ever military drills messages
January 2, 2021 - 8:13 AMIn an important development, resistant Palestinian groups in Gaza Strip conducted their first-ever joint military drills on Tuesday on the anniversary of the 2008 Israeli war on Gaza.
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Analysis: Turkish-Israeli detente: How Erdogan stripped Turkey of its Islamic identity
December 30, 2020 - 10:14 AMAnkara and Tel Aviv have begun the rapprochement process with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s mediation. This was the title of news first published by Israeli media and then confirmed by remarks of the Turkish...
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Analysis: A Yemeni missile storm may be en route to Saudi ports
December 30, 2020 - 10:04 AMFive years on, Saudi regime's defeat ins definite and the scales are tipped n favor of the Yemenis. The defining feature of this defeat is the increase of the vulnerability of the Arab kingdom to Yemeni strikes.
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Analysis: 10 issues Biden’s foreign policy team should deal with in Syria
December 27, 2020 - 9:10 AMBiden and his Secretary of State post nominee Antony Blinken several times assessed Trump policy as a “great failure” in Syrian developments and called the US response to the Turkish actions in Syria as failed.
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Analysis: Saudis hire al-Qaeda militants in Yemen
December 26, 2020 - 8:48 AMOne of the important issues that make Saudi Arabia drift towards Al-Qaeda is Egypt and the UAE’s discontentment with the continuation of the Saudi cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islah Party of Yemen in the Saleh government.
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Analysis: Will UAE be another occupied Palestine?
December 24, 2020 - 10:46 AMSephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef traveled to Dubai on Thursday in the first-ever visit to an Arab country to inaugurate a Jewish center in the UAE.
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Analysis: Saudi Royal rift over Normalization with Israel
December 24, 2020 - 10:43 AMThe struggle in the house of Saud over the normalization with the Israeli regime is openly underway between two princes and the former Saudi ambassador to Washington.
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Analysis: Bin Salman’s new circus for the West
December 22, 2020 - 2:20 PMIn the latest wave of changes under the so-called reforms, Saudi officials announced changes in the student textbooks, titles, and education system.
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Analysis: 17 Years of war crimes, Iraq to sue US
December 22, 2020 - 8:53 AMIraq plans to sue the US in Swedish and German courts for violating its sovereignty and use of uranium munitions in the war.
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Analysis: New wave Of Peshmerga-PKK clashes, What are drivers?
December 22, 2020 - 8:39 AMThe relations between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the past two months have reached a critical and tense stage. In the past few weeks, reports emerged about clashes between the Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga forces and the guerrilla forces of the terrorist PKK group.
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Analysis: Saudi Arabia’s twisted coalition-making path in Yemen
December 16, 2020 - 10:06 AMOn Saturday, a member of committee supervising implementation of Riyadh agreement told Anadolu news agency that the separatist forces have withdrawn from Aden and moved to Dhale frontlines. The source told the news agency that Hadi-aligned forces and the STC forces began exit from battlefronts in Abyan. The UAE-backed STC has confirmed the retreat to Lahaj province.
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Analyse: Five Years After Zaria Massacre
December 15, 2020 - 9:30 AMDuring his first maiden media chat in December 2015, shortly after Nigerian army’s gruesome massacre on innocent citizens in Zaria, President Muhammad Buhari vowed, as he awaits the report of the Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the attack, that justice will be ensured to the victims of the horrendous incident.
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