Prospects of the Western Balkans joining the European Union any time soon are fading. The sense of pessimism around the region is growing pervasive. The future of the small region is thrown into yet more doubt by the high degree of “enlargement fatigue” that has gripped EU citizens. …
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It may be pure coincidence that the recapture of Mosul by Iraqi forces was accomplished on the anniversary of the defeat of Israel’s July 2006 assault on Lebanon. But there is a clear link between these two achievements: they underline the regional ascendancy of Iran and its allies, …
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By Shehab Al Makahleh • The July 7 meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, will be remembered not so much because the meeting of two most important world leaders finally occurred, despite all possible efforts by various actors to …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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