Amman, July 14 (Petra News Agency) – Turkish Ambassador to Amman Murat Karagoz on Thursday praised the Jordanian stance and solidarity with his country during the failed coup attempt last year in Turkey. “Turkey and its people will never forget the Jordanian stance with Turkey and countries suffering …
Read More »Tripartite Deal Struck on Syria
By Shehab Al Makahleh • The United States, Russia and Jordan have agreed to foster a cease-fire in a limited area of southwestern Syria that will begin at noon on Sunday July 9, 2017. The cease-fire agreement was announced Friday by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and his Russian …
Read More »‘Russian Hacking’ Story – the Latest of ‘CNN Effects’
Editorial – How Media Distorts Facts, Shapes Public Opinion for Profit and Why Ethics Must Return to Journalism US president Trump has just completed his first five months in the office, yet his Democrat opponents and the mainstream US media accusations about ‘Russian collusion’ have not abated in the …
Read More »What Trump Can Expect from Putin
President Trump will have his first meeting with President Putin at a time of dangerous U.S.-Russian tensions, amid demands to “get tough,” but ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, a former presidential briefer, urges Trump to see Putin’s side. By Ray McGovern In the style of a President’s Daily Brief …
Read More »Kissinger’s Vision for U.S.-Russia Relations
Russia should be perceived as an essential element of any new global equilibrium. Henry A. Kissinger | Published February 4, 2016 | National Interest From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials and military leaders from Russia and the …
Read More »Kissinger: Chaos in the West Could Give Boost to Russia
LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has warned of Russia’s simmering alienation from its western neighbors but says he believed that President Vladimir Putin will ultimately work toward cooperative relationships with countries on its borders. Speaking at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security in …
Read More »Turkey may be subtly changing sides in the Syrian conflict
The unthinkable has become the conceivable. By Adam Garrie | The Duran • Between the Syrian victory in the Battle of Aleppo in December of 2016 and the signing of the Astana Memorandum on the creation of de-escalation zones in Syria in May of 2017, Turkey was one of the …
Read More »In a Royal Sleight of Hand Saudi King Names Son a Crown Prince
By Shehab Al Makahleh • Without a hint that a GCC-Qatar rift tearing apart the fabric of the regional stability and cooperation resolution is anywhere in sight, ill and aged Saudi king Salman via a royal decree, Wednesday morning declares his 31-year-old son, Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) a new …
Read More »US Backs Down as Russia Targets US Aircraft in Syria
As Russia targets US aircraft west of the Euphrates US redeploys aircraft elsewhere allowing Syrian army to capture strategic town of Rusafa. Back in April, in the immediate aftermath of the US cruise missile attack on Syria’s Al-Shayrat air base, Russia retaliated by switching off the ‘de-confliction’ hotline …
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