The commander of Mossad’s 'Caesarea' special operations division has reportedly quit due to "disagreements" with director David Barnea, seven months after the latter assumed the post from Yossi Cohen. This is the fourth Israeli spying apparatus's official to quit in a few months.
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With its hundreds of thousands of victims and grave consequences to the regional security and even international stability, the Syrian crisis is described as one of the world's most complicated crises in the 21st century. Intense geopolitical rivalry and involvement of regional and international actors are among the factors that have prolonged the devastating crisis in the past decade.
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The Turkish-Israeli relations underwent challenges since 2008, when Tel Aviv waged another criminal war against Gaza Strip. The storming of Turkey's Gaza-bound aid ship Marmara in 2010 took their confrontation to next bevel. Their ties even went worse when in 2018 Trump recognized Al-Quds...
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In the latest comments, al-Sadr, who leads Sadrist Movement, reiterated his previous stances on the cabinet formation. In a televised speech, he openly opposed ex-PM Nour al-Maliki's participation in the new "national majority government." He held that he asked Hadi al-Amiri and Qais al-Khazali, leaders of two large blocs, to join the government but not al-Maliki
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On Thursday, Iraqi and Saudi energy ministers signed an agreement to see Saudi Arabia export power to Iraq. The agreement was signed between Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman and Iraq's Electricity Minister Adel al-Karimi. Iraqi Cabinet Secretary-General Hamid Al-Ghezi said that in addition to power grid connection, the two countries' delegations agreed to cooperate in industrial parks and sports.
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The UAE's entry into the Yemeni crisis has been more the result of a supportive approach to Saudi Arabia's policies in the region than the result of direct intervention and independent political decision-making in a regional equation. In March 2015, Abu Dhabi entered the war as an ally of Saudi Arabia after the Riyadh-led Arab Coalition launched offensive attacks on Yemen.
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Lebanon's ex-PM Saad Hariri who portrays himself mostly as an ethnic figure among Sunnis recently said he plans suspending his political activities, though not clear this means his retirement. He also did not explain why he is making such a move, but suspension of the move means that he has a hope to return to the political scene in indefinite future.
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Specter of ISIS resurgence is rising with intensification of attacks of the terrorist group in recent weeks especially following jail break of a big number of its prisoners from Hasakah prison in northeastern Syria, where about 5,000 ISIS captives are being kept, and possible re-organization using the sleeper cells and wanted members across Syria and Iraq.
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Just a few months ago, reception of the Taliban in Europe was as impossible as a cold day in July. However, this happened in the first month of the new year along a series of dramatic developments that have taken place since August 2021 in Afghanistan...
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Perhaps, by doing so, Hariri wanted to create a double shock: the supporters loyal to him, who had been denouncing him for some time because of criticisms over his political performance, are now sympathizing with him as a “victim of a conspiracy” internally and externally.
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With the battleground triumphs of the Syrian forces and their allies in the fight against terrorist groups and cleansing most of Syria of foreign-backed militants, which very much contributed to alleviation of the military aspect of the crisis, one issue that the presents itself in the nation's developments is the future relations between the Kurds and the central government.
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How the Saudi coalition's crimes began with weapons from allied nations and why they are determined to remain silent.
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Amid reports of Israeli expansionist measures in recent months that are epitomized by new illegal settlement projects in West Bank and repression of the Palestinian protestors, in a surprising move the UN approved an Israeli-favored resolution on the Holocaust, adding insult to the Palestinian injury.
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Tensions are on the rise between Moscow and Brussels over Ukraine. With the Ukrainian crisis flaring up, the Russian forces, including state-of-the-art S-400 missile defenses, are being deployed to Belarus for military drills. Meanwhile, Britain said it would increase the military aids to the ally Ukraine.
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After important visit of the Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian visit to China last week with a focus on expansion of ties between the two countries, Iran's President Sayyed Ibrahim Raeisi visited Russia to leave a considerable mark in his presidency record before first complete year in office.
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National majority government In Iraq is a term that has been used over the past three months by powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to describe the future government.
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On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the Bahrain people's revolution, which created a turning point in the history of the pro-justice movement in the small island nation, the political conditions remain tense and the ruling Al Khalifa regime maintains its pressure and crackdown on the political activists and leaders of the revolutionary movement. Most of them are either behind the bars after largely show trials or living in exile.
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Responding to an offer by the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to send "professionals" to Afghanistan, the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his country does not need foreign manpower.
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Like the period that followed the fourth parliament election in 2018, these days a difference between Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over who would fill the post of president at its peak.
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The pressure building on the Saudi-Emirati coalition and its Yemeni allies in the war following the battleground triumphs of Ansarullah Movement in various parts of Yemen have caused the Arab alliance to dramatically intensify its air and ground strikes in the recent weeks to reverse the defeats.
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Given the growing number of visits and meetings between officials, Saudi and Iraqi relations have entered a new phase in the past two years. This even grew broader following formation of a joint political, security, and military council and then visit to Saudi Arabia of the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in March last year.
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As the Saudi war against Yemen enters 2022, Yemenis seem more determined than ever to hold victory ceremonies and forge ahead into another year of struggle against the Saudi onslaught – notwithstanding a new scorched-earth campaign launched by the oil-rich kingdom,...
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Lebanon has been grappling with an array of economic and political problems in recent years, making it have trouble forming governments as the economy continues to suffer. Both foreign and home factors are to blame for continuation of the crisis.
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Many analysts believe that with the start of the new year, national Syrian reconciliation process that started from mid-2021 would see acceleration. The Syrian national reconciliation is a process that was initiated with the entry to Al-Yaduda village in Daraa province of Syrian army and Russian military police forces on September 13 last year.
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As the new Iranian administration led by President Sayyed Ibrahim Raeisi set its diplomacy and foreign policy on cooperation with the neighbors, the foreign ministry has put high on its agenda expansion of relations with neighbors to realize this aim.
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Yuval Diskin, the former director of Israeli internal security service Shabak, in an article published by the Yedioth Ahronoth on February 2021 pointed to the internal threat the Israeli regime is facing, saying that "the danger to Israel is not Iran nuclear case or the Lebanese Hezbollah or radical Islam, rather the internal approaches and structural problems that constitute a real threat."
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The Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Tehran on Sunday. The visit came as a litany of problems is on the one hand rocking the Afghan society and the country is in need of international support to move to stability and settlement of the economic crisis and on the other hand the international community especially Afghanistan's neighbors are following ...
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Since its establishment, the Israeli regime has been struggling to acquire arms and equipment granting it military capability and deterrence in the face of regional countries and the Palestinians and enabling it to pursue its expansionist goals in the region.
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The last week seizure of the UAE ship by Yemen's Ansarullah Movement off Yemen coast dealt a heavy blow to the sea dominance of the Saudi-led Arab coalition and marked a turning point in beginning of collapse of the inhumane several-year blockade on Yemen especially in the sea.
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Situation is yet to be calm in Kazakhstan where unrest and clashes between the government forces and protestors, some of them armed, gripped the country since last week.
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