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Turkish President Erdogan is currently in a precarious situation. Turkey suffered in Syria severe military setbacks with dozens of killed. Yesterday’s agreement with Russia’s President Putin foresees a withdrawal of the Islamists supported by Turkey from a larger area to the south and east of Idlib. More than 30 Turkish soldiers died in Libya in the last few days. EU sanctions against two Turkish citizens because of the natural gas drilling off Cyprus are damaging to Erdogan’s reputation.

According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the Israeli air force has carried out large-scale air strikes on positions of the Syrian army and Iranian special forces Al-Quds in the area of ​​the Syrian capital Damascus

The strikes took place early this morning [November 18 – ed.] and were confirmed by the Russian side, as a number of media officially quoted a press release from the Russian Ministry of Defense, including the Russian media RIA Novosti. According to the Syrian news agency SANA, earlier this morning the Syrian air defense managed to repel another Israeli attack.

One can only imagine the shock and bitterness from France’s political leadership in October 2020 when after three terrorist attacks, France was the recipient of anger and hatred not only from some Middle East regimes, Islamist demagogues, and jihadi propagandists, but from liberal and left-wing Western, especially English-speaking, media.[1] These media outlets particularly blamed an abrasive Gallic brand of tough secularism for possibly alienating French Muslims.

Une tribune publiée par le site de l’Obs invoque l’interventionnisme occidental pour expliquer le terrorisme. Les Français seraient dans le déni, selon le texte. Non seulement cette antienne de gauche n’a rien de très original, mais à la vue du parcours militant de certains des signataires, cela n’a rien d’étonnant. Explications

Not content with losing an election, President Donald J. Trump is also attempting to lose a war before returning to private life and launching his 2024 campaign. In one of his final acts as president, Trump will accelerate the Obama administration’s surrender in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Russia’s Foreign Minister has lambasted countries that did not attend the recent refugee conference in Damascus, or pressured other countries not to attend writes SANA.

More than 500 Syrians, some related to alleged Islamic State group members, quit the overcrowded Kurdish-run camp of Al-Hol in the northeast of the war-torn country Monday, Kurdish officials said. An AFP reporter saw dozens of women lugging their belongings onto trucks, and others feeding their children before their departure. Some were accompanied by chickens and sheep, while Kurdish…

Entretien avec Jean-Pierre Obin, qui publie Comment on a laissé l’islamisme pénétrer l’école

Par où commencer ? Par ce professeur d’histoire non musulman qui enseigne avec le Coran sur son bureau pour rassurer ses élèves, par ces mystérieuses « allergies au chlore » qui contaminent principalement des élèves musulmanes ou par ces bambins de CE2/CM1 défilant dans leur cour de récré au cri de « Allah Akbar » ?

France’s decision to outlaw the Gray Wolves marks a new milestone in Erdogan’s showdown with Europe over Turkish migrant groups, which he uses as a tool to advance his political agenda.

Tensions between Turkey and France, stoked by the French government’s plans to tackle “Islamist separatism,” are spilling over to Austria and Germany as Turkish Islamist and nationalist groups in Europe, mobilized by Ankara, are coming under tighter scrutiny.