Then there is the Turkish Hezbollah, a Sunni violent organization that aims to found a Kurdish-Islamic state based on sharia. Although the Turkish Hezbollah is not to be confused with the Lebanese Hezbollah, it too has links with the Shia regime in Iran.
Now they [the Europeans] find themselves locked into what they know is a phoney and highly dangerous nuclear agreement that simply consigns confrontation with a nuclear-armed Iran to future generations.
They [the Iranian leadership] look at Europeans, as well as Americans, with contempt, as weak and decadent, lacking the courage or resolve to stick up for their own interests…. President Trump gave them pause for thought, especially when he ordered the death of Qasem Soleimani…. They have higher hopes of Biden, whom they expect to be more supine.
A war memoir written by a former Russian paratrooper who fought in Syria for the Kremlin-backed mercenary Wagner Group, owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a plutocrat nicknamed “Putin’s chef,” had been eagerly awaited.
Taiwan has two defense procurement deals with the United States in the pipeline for 2021, worth approximately US$8 billion, Vice Defense Minister Chang Che-ping (張哲平) said Monday during a legislative hearing.
We may be proved wrong, but our guess is that Tehran will do nothing to raise the degree of tension even by one notch….
Khamenei promised “hard revenge” for Soleimani’s death but has vowed nothing but “prosecution and punishment” of perpetrators. His emphasis is on “the continuation” of Fakhrizadeh’s work.
“If nothing changes, in a few decades, France will have submitted to Islam, and Islamic violence will probably be even greater than today. It is already almost impossible for the country’s leaders to react. They are hostages of a Muslim population that is less and less integrated and whose anger they do not want to arouse. They are under the gaze of groups that immediately denounce any criticism of Islam and under pressure from many countries in the Muslim world that France does not want to offend”. — Alan Wagner, “L’Europe face à l’islam”, interview on Tepa, August 2, 2020.
Le cabinet du vice-président de la Transition, le colonel Assimi Goïta, affiche complet, selon les prévisions du décret qui fixe ses attributions et l’organisation de son cabinet. Le directeur, les conseillers techniques et deux chargés de mission sont nommés par décrets du président de la Transition. La mise en place de ce cabinet est diversement appréciée.
La situation sécuritaire se dégrade de jour en jour au Mali et au Sahel de façon générale malgré les gigantesques moyens militaires mis en œuvre. Pour sortir de ce cycle infernal, les autorités maliennes ont rappelé la nécessité d’un dialogue avec les groupés armés non conventionnels, comme suggéré lors de la Conférence d’Entente nationale (2017) et le Dialogue national inclusif (2019). Cependant, la France un partenaire stratégique du Mali dans la lutte contre les groupes radicaux, voit d’un mauvais œil cette approche. Négocier avec les groupes terroristes serait-il un aveu d’échec contre la stratégie de sécurisation ? Aly Tounkara, directeur du Centre des Études sécuritaires et stratégiques au Sahel (CE3S) nous livre son analyse.
The SDF internal system acknowledges seven foundational components of the SDF:
. YPG
. YPJ
. Syriac Military Council
. Sanadid Forces
. Jaysh al-Thuwar
. Liwa al-Shamal al-Dimoqrati
. Jabhat al-Akrad
Une tribune libre d’Abdelrahim Ali, islamologue et PDG du groupe de presse « Al Bawaba » au Caire.
Pendant les vingt dernières années, la France a vu de nombreuses initiatives visant à organiser l’islam sur son sol.