July, 2022

• 14 July

  A New Iron Curtain Splits Russia From the West

  

  Today’s standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine can be traced back to 2004, a little more than a decade after the end of the Cold War. At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin was just embarking on his second term, and he began nurturing a cult of personality, …

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• 14 July

  NATO Finds a New Sense of Purpose in an Old Mission

  

  NATO leaders gathered this week at a summit in Madrid to adopt a New Strategic Concept, a framework that sets out the alliance’s core priorities for the next decade. But the Madrid gathering was in other ways historic, ushering in further expansion of the alliance after Turkey lifted its veto …

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• 14 July

  NATO’s New Division of Labor on Russia and China Won’t Be Easy

  

  The bloc’s formal designation of Beijing as a threat is just a first step. Now comes the hard part. For the first time since the Mongol invasion of Europe in the 13th century, Europe now views an Asian power as a direct security threat. Unlike Japan, which overran Europe’s East …

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• 14 July

  Top PKK terrorist killed in anti-terror op: Surrendered terrorist

  

  A PKK terrorist who surrendered to Turkish security forces during Operation Eren Blockade-2 confessed that a “senior” terrorist has been killed, which has led many other terrorists to panic. In his testimony, the unidentified terrorist, who surrendered in the Hakkari province, told security forces that top PKK terrorist Rıdvan Alkan, …

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• 14 July

  SDF arrests 12 ISIS suspects in a large operation in Hasakah province

  

  The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday announced the arrest of 17 ISIS suspects in the northeastern Hasakah province. The SDF said it arrested 12 ISIS suspects in Hasakah, al-Hol, Tal Hamis, Tal Brak, and Derik in coordination with the International Security Forces (Asayish). They confiscated a large quantity of …

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• 14 July

  Russian President Putin To Visit Iran Next Week

  

  The President of Russia Vladimir Putin is going to pay a visit to Iran next week. The Russian leader is expected to travel to Tehran for a trilateral meeting of the presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey. Last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian expressed hope that the Iran-Russia-Turkey summit …

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• 14 July

  New US-Israel Agreement To Prevent Iranian Nuclear Bomb

  

  US President Joe Biden will sign an agreement with Israel this week pledging that both countries will use “all elements of national power” to ensure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon, Israeli officials said on Tuesday. The declaration of a joint stance against Iran’s nuclear program and regional aggression …

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• 14 July

  Biden To Walk Political Tightrope Through Israel, Palestine Trip

  

  On the first leg of his trip to the Middle East this week, US President Joe Biden will meet with Israeli leaders and then make a gratuitous stop in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, before heading off to Saudi Arabia for the second leg …

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• 14 July

  Biden’s Saudi Visit Is A Return To The Norm, Not A ‘Reorientation’

  

  US President Biden Joe Biden arrives in Saudi Arabia this week at the invitation of King Salman. In Jeddah on Friday he will meet the king and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, and attend an extraordinary meeting of the six GCC states plus Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. While it is …

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• 14 July

  L’euro faible et le rouble en pleine forme: cherchez l’erreur !

  

  L’euro est en train de chuter dangereusement. Il risque d’être bientôt à parité avec le dollar, autrement dit, un euro = un dollar. Pour rappel, en avril 2008, l’euro était à 1,60 dollar, soit son plus haut niveau face au billet vert et qu’en octobre 2000, là c’est exactement le …

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