ADRIAN SEVERIN: AMERICA SE PREGĂTEȘTE SĂ AVANTAJEZE RUSIA ÎN EUROPA, DAR CU PREȚUL TRĂDĂRII CHINEI DE CĂTRE RUȘI
SIMT LIPSA UNEI ORDINI MONDIALE UNDE ACTORII IMPORTANȚI ÎȘI BAZEAZĂ AUTORITATEA PE INTELIGENȚĂ ȘI NU PE FORȚĂ BRUTĂ.
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Severin: ”Cum să te bați cu Rusia, când Germania și Turcia îi caută insistent prietenia?”
Fostul ministru de Externe Adrian Severin a publicat în DCnews câteva observații despre summitul de la Geneva unde se vor întâlni președintele Rusiei și președintele SUA.
Ilham Ahmed: PKK Fought Terrorism, No Enmity Towards Turkey
In a press conference, Ilham Ahmed claimed that the PKK fought extremism, and expressed the SDC’s willingness to dialogue with the Assad regime and Turkey, according to Syria TV.
“The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has fought terrorism and extremism in several areas where the Kurds are present. They have given everything, their most precious offerings, including the lives of their members,” said Ilham Ahmed, joint president of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC). She noted that this “puts a moral obligation on the SDC towards the party.”
US-Led Coalition Conducts Numerous Raids in Syria Killing ISIS Members
Despite President Biden’s remarks last week to the UN that the United States is at peace for the first time in 20 years, fighting continues against terrorism in the Middle East.
The US-led coalition conducted several operations against Islamic State fighters and support cells recently, even as the administration is trying to move the American troops from a combat role to an advisory one in neighboring Iraq.
Russia bombs Turkey’s allies in Syria ahead of Putin-Erdogan summit
Russian jets shelled a camp for the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in Afrin, north of Aleppo, and intensified its airstrikes against the areas controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib ahead of the meeting between the Turkish and Russian presidents on Sept. 29.
Sources affiliated with the Syrian opposition’s so-called National Army, formerly known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), told Al-Monitor that Russian jets launched several air raids on Sept. 26. The raids hit a military base of Al-Hamza Division, a group affiliated with the National Army, in the village of Barad in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Syrian jihadist group won’t reconcile with al-Qaeda affiliate in Idlib
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls Idlib, is refusing to sit down with al-Qaeda-affiliated Hurras al-Din leaders to resolve pending disputes.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, is refusing calls from al-Qaeda-affiliated Hurras al-Din (Guardians of Religion Organization) to resolve their differences through Sharia arbitration.
Iraq’s Sunni parties compete for votes in crucial election
Iraqi Sunnis are weighing whether to vote for candidates on a tribal or party-linked basis, try for independents or maybe not even vote at all.
Baghdad streets were teeming by early September with billboards and posters bearing candidates’ faces and the numbers they will be associated with on ballots to be cast in Iraq’s Oct. 10 early elections.
Top generals step down in ominous sign for Turkish military in Syria
Top generals in charge of Turkey’s military operations in Syria have sought retirement amid escalating tensions in Idlib, fueling questions over Ankara’s Syria policies.
Turkey was rattled last week by reports that five generals serving on Syria-related missions were seeking to resign, including the head of a command center in charge of all Turkish operations in Syria and two others at the helm of commando forces that are deployed in Syria on a rotational basis.
Delegation of Palestinian Clerics from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria Visits Hizbullah Brigades in Iraq
A delegation of Palestinian clerics from Gaza, South Lebanon and Syria has been visiting Iraq in the recent days to attend the “Call of Al-Aqsa Procession”, organized by the Iraqi “Call of Al-Aqsa” (Nida Al-Aqsa) organization. The procession is held as part of the “Arba’een Pligrimage” march from Najaf to Karbala, held annually at the end of the 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, the Prophet’s grandson, who was assassinated in 680.
Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias In Response To Normalization Conference In Erbil: We Will Attack Israeli, American Targets In Kurdistan; Punish Conference Participants, Kurdish Authorities
On September 24, 2021, some 300 Iraqi notables, both Sunnis and Shi’ites, held a conference in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, calling for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords and establish diplomatic ties with Israel. They also called to abolish the law criminalizing contacts between Iraqi and Israeli citizens. The conference was initiated by the Center for Peace Communications, based in New York.