September, 2021

• 22 September

  Turkey’s latest attack on PKK militant in Iraqi Kurdistan meant as show of strength

  

  In recent months, Turkish drones have picked off a string of mid-level commanders in Iraqi Kurdistan and northeast Syria. Turkey’s latest hit job on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operatives in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region marks a troubling turn for the militant group, as it continues to bleed fighters in the …

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• 22 September

  Eine Perspektive bieten

  

  Mit Kanzlerin Merkel verliert der Westbalkan eine wichtige Unterstützerin. Der EU-Beitritt muss für diese Länder als Perspektive erhalten werden. Wenn Angela Merkel nach 16 Jahren ihr Amt abgibt, verliert der Westbalkan eine seiner wichtigsten Unterstützerinnen – vor allem, wenn es um den EU-Beitritt geht, den Serbien, Montenegro, Albanien, Nordmazedonien, Kosovo …

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• 22 September

  Morocco dismantles Daesh-linked cell, arrests three

  

  Moroccan authorities have dismantled a cell of Daesh group-affiliated militants and arrested three suspects accused of plotting an assassination, security services said on Tuesday. The suspects, detained in the southern city of Errachidia, had planned “crimes of a terrorist nature against individuals” and selected a public servant for “imminent assassination”, …

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• 22 September

  Mali-Russie : Bamako sur le point de signer un contrat avec une société du groupe Wagner

  

  Le déploiement d’un millier de mercenaires russes est évoqué. Paris s’emploie à faire échouer la signature. Selon nos sources, depuis début septembre, un contrat est prêt à être signé entre l’État malien – représenté par le président de la transition, Assimi Goïta, et son ministre de la Défense, Sadio Camara …

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• 22 September

  In Germany’s election, the fate of the EU is at stake

  

  After Merkel, the incoming coalition will have to prove that democracy can meet Europe’s great challenges In Brussels last week, I found everyone waiting for Berlin. In Berlin, I found everyone electrified by an unexpectedly wide-open election. One thing, however, is clear: the new German government will be a coalition, …

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• 22 September

  Chwila tryumfu von der Leyen

  

  UE ma chronić wartości, walczyć z pandemią i produkować mikroczipy – mówiła szefowa Komisji Europejskiej. SOTEU to skrót od orędzia o stanie UE (ang. State of the European Union), które przewodniczący Komisji Europejskiej wygłaszają w Parlamencie Europejskim corocznie od 2010 roku. Wzorowany na znacznie starszym przykładzie amerykańskim (tam SOTU ma …

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• 22 September

  Assad Shores Up Control in Syria’s Symbolically Important South

  

  For much of the Syrian civil war, the southern city of Deraa and the surrounding Houran Plains, an agricultural region near the Jordanian border, were divided between government forces and armed rebels. Fighting raged back and forth, killing thousands. It was not until Russia backed a government offensive in 2018 …

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• 22 September

  Turkey-backed Syrian opposition groups merge under new banner

  

  A group of factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army have formed a new alliance known as the Syrian Liberation Front intended to end the power struggle between Turkey’s allied factions in northern Syria. On Sept. 9, five factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army announced that they …

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• 22 September

  Iran’s Raisi to meet Putin as states mull Taliban recognition

  

  In his first foreign visit as Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi will sit down with Russian and Pakistani leaders amid new regional dynamics triggered by the US departure from Afghanistan. President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Thursday to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …

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• 22 September

  Turkey’s blind eye to jihadis worsens its predicaments in Syria

  

  Turkey is seeking to downplay the jihadi threat that its troops face in Idlib, the last Islamist stronghold in Syria, opting to turn the spotlight to the Kurds instead. After losing three soldiers in a bomb attack in Idlib, the last bastion of Islamist rebels in Syria, Turkey pounded Syrian …

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