Month: August 2022

Au Togo, nouvelle attaque « terroriste » repoussée dans le nord du pays, affirme l’armée

Il s’agit de la cinquième attaque depuis novembre 2021, due à des incursions de groupes djihadistes présents de l’autre côté de la frontière, au Burkina Faso.

L’armée togolaise a affirmé mardi 23 août avoir repoussé une attaque menée lundi soir par des « groupes armés terroristes » ayant fait « quelques blessés » dans le village de Blamonga, dans l’extrême-nord du pays. Il s’agit de la cinquième attaque perpétrée depuis novembre 2021 dans cette partie du Togo, en proie à des incursions des groupes djihadistes présents de l’autre côté de sa frontière, au Burkina Faso.

The Many Lives of Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead – or so we are told. Al-Qaida’s chief and successor to the slain Osama bin Laden, he was deemed the chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. On July 31, he was supposedly killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, while standing on his balcony.

Stalingrad Of The Arabs

Forty years ago this summer, the attention of much of the world was focused on Beirut. Israel sought to finish with Palestinian terrorism from Lebanon once and for all and fatefully invaded, coming all the way up to the Lebanese capital. Israel had also hoped to facilitate the installation of a friendly Lebanese Christian government but their principal partner, charismatic Lebanese Forces Commander Bashir Gemayel, would be assassinated by Syrian intelligence shortly after being elected president of Lebanon and before he actually took office. Despite Israel’s clear military superiority, it would utterly fail in its political goals.

L’Algérie peut-elle devenir membre des BRICS ?

Et si les BRICS devenaient les BRICSA ? Abdelmadjid Tebboune en est persuadé : l’Algérie qu’il préside répond en grande partie aux conditions pour adhérer à ce club d’économies émergentes comprenant le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine et l’Afrique du Sud. Qu’en est-il réellement ? Décryptage.

Islamic State threatens Kurdish workers in northeast Syria

The Islamic State is threatening to kill employees in the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor if they continue to report to their jobs.

Islamic State (IS) cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria threatened employees and workers of institutions linked to the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and warned them against carrying out work for the administration.

Turkey signals new rules of engagement to Syrian Kurds, Damascus

Turkish strikes on Syrian government troops and overt Kurdish attacks on targets inside Turkey signal that both sides are changing the rules of the game as Ankara eyes normalization with Damascus.

Ankara’s reconciliation overtures to Damascus have been accompanied by growing Turkish attacks on Syrian Kurdish and government forces along the border — a sign of new engagement rules in a border strip extending 32 kilometers (20 miles) into northern Syria that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to see as a “safe zone.”

Barzani says former Turkish president wanted federation with Iraq’s Kurds

In his memoir, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani shares that Turkey’s former President Turgut Ozal had once floated the idea of “annexing” Iraqi Kurdistan.

As Turkey escalates its campaign against Kurdish militants in the north of Syria and Iraq and Kurdish politicians within its borders, Masoud Barzani, the preeminent leader of Iraq’s Kurds, recalls a time when Ankara’s policy toward his people was distinctly different.

Iran Prepares to Take Out Israel – Right after Iran Deal Is Signed

The mullahs appear convinced that once the Biden administration capitulates completely to their demands for reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, they will be able to step up their already significant efforts to eliminate Israel and export their Islamic Revolution to Arab and Islamic countries. Iran already occupies four Arab countries: Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.