French President Emmanuel Macron has clearly decided to up the ante in a standoff with Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, where France is backing Greece and Cyprus in their dispute with Ankara over natural gas reserves and maritime boundaries.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the continued presence of Russia’s major naval and air bases in his country help counter the influence of Western powers in the region as the battle to crush foreign-backed terrorists was winding down.
Over the years, a solid network of religious parties and clerics has formed, controlling a large part of the employment process in government departments.
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that Turkish forces have blocked Latakia-Aleppo international highway (M4), near Muhambel town in the western countryside of Idlib, while Turkish troops were seen on high alert there. It is expected that Turkish forces will patrol the M4 highway alone.
The President of Turkey has called on Syria and Russia to respect the terms of the agreements regarding Idleb reports Anadolu Agency.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his country will go to clean up terrorist hideouts in Syria if the promises made to them are not fulfilled.
Greece, it seems, has entered a rapid pace of armaments upgrade after several years. Of course, the focus may be on Rafale and frigates, but all three bodies will see a significant upgrade, BulgarianMilitary.com reports citing a lengthy Saturday article of the Greek news agency Pentapostagma.
Israel has provided Azerbaijan with its new weapon – the Harpy system, which is capable of destroying Russia’s S-300 and even S-400 air defense systems, and this news is presented by a number of media as a sensation.
It is assumed that these Israeli weapons will quickly resolve the military conflict in favor of Azerbaijan. At the same time, it turns out that Russia’s air defense systems, which are in service in Armenia, “will not be able to withstand the Israeli novelty.”
Turkey and Russia are moving counter the international efforts led by the United States to impose a new political settlement in Libya, which brings the spectre of war to the fore again about a month and a half after the rival parties in the conflict announced a ceasefire following a year and a half of war on the outskirts of Tripoli.
What we are witnessing is an Arab autocrat (Abbas) seeking the help of a Muslim autocrat (Erdogan) in holding “free and fair” elections. Abbas, it seems, is confident that Erdogan’s observers would rubber-stamp the results of any Palestinian election to ensure that the PA president emerges victorious
A well-informed source told Zaman Al-Wasl that Wagner Group, a Russian military security contractor, is recruiting Syrian mercenaries that will be trained and transferred to Belarus to protect the Russian interests as well as to stand with the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.