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May, 2024

  • 10 May

    China is not the answer to Nato President Xi has learnt from our hollow humanitarianism

    The timing of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade yesterday was far from accidental: exactly 25 years before, Nato forces bombed the city’s Chinese embassy during Operation Allied Force, the two-and-half month campaign against what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Given the Nato campaign was justified by the …

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  • 10 May

    US Policy In Northeast Syria: Toward A Strategic Reconfiguration – Analysis

    Amid escalating regional tensions since October 7 last year and reports of American contemplations of troop withdrawal from Syria, the US administration should reassess its Syria policy, and consider a long-term, minimalist presence coupled with robust political and diplomatic efforts in the interest of regional security and peace. The ongoing …

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  • 10 May

    The Islamic State: Background, Current Status, And US Policy – Analysis

    The Islamic State (IS) is a transnational Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group. At its 2015 height, the group controlled large areas of Iraq and Syria from which it launched attacks in the region and beyond. While the group no longer controls territory outright in Syria and Iraq, U.S. military …

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  • 10 May

    Will Palestinian Groups Create A New Palestinian Political Project? – OpEd

    In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be released before it would stop the bombing, while Hamas said that the bombing must stop first. Israel has …

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  • 10 May

    Israel’s Newest Security Threat – Is the US Next?

    “The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don’t officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel…. In electronic products, there are tens of thousands of components, but if even one component doesn’t arrive, we cannot deliver the product.” — Unnamed senior figure in a …

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  • 10 May

    The Georgian State Security Service & The Georgian Legion Are On The Brink Of War

    Just like the Azov Battalion and other ultra-nationalists played a key role in the spree of urban terrorism known as EuroMaidan despite their small numbers, so too does the Georgian Legion envisage doing the same in Tbilisi nowadays. The Georgian State Security Service strongly implied that the Georgian Legion is …

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  • 10 May

    Israel gives extremist settler ‘absolute’ control of occupied West Bank

    The new head of the army’s Central Command has overseen several major army major operations and stood by as settlers carried out pogroms in the occupied West Bank Brigadier General Avi Bluth, an extremist religious settler, has been appointed to the position of Central Command commander of the Israeli army, …

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  • 10 May

    Leading Gaza surgeon tortured to death in Israeli detention

    Nearly 500 healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since 7 October Palestinian orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh, who served as the head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital, was killed in an Israeli detention center after being imprisoned for more than four months. According to a …

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  • 10 May

    Israeli organ-trafficking network busted in Turkiye

    Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah reported on 5 May. The Provincial Directorate of …

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  • 10 May

    Bahraini resistance opens front against Israel

    Saraya al-Ashtar, a Shia armed faction in Bahrain, has announced its first operation against Israel The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain announced on 2 May an attack on the headquarters of an Israeli transportation company in the southern port city of Eilat. “The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain – Saraya al-Ashtar (Al-Ashtar …

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