Orientul Mijlociu

Le livre des conseils du prophète Ali pour un bon gouvernement.

Ali, gendre et cousin du prophète Mahomet, s’adresse à Malik, qu’il vient de nommer gouverneur d’Egypte, et le bref ouvrage en question se compose de recommandations de justice, de mansuétude, d’humilité, d’écoute des pauvres, de recherche de la prospérité pour le pays. Aux antipodes des conseils de Machiavel, il ne donne pas de conseils dans l’art et l’exercice de la ruse. Tous deux se placent cependant à l’identique sous le regard de Dieu, sur terre et dans l’au-delà. Dans la société islamique, telle que la décrit Ali, les commerçants sont la catégorie qui englobe toute l’activité placée sous le signe du profit: industrie, progrès technique, production, management, financiarisation, profit ne sont pas évoqués en tant que tels ; tout cela rentre dans la catégorie des activités commerciales, échanges à l’intérieur du pays, et import-export.

Active

Terror organization: Uzbek Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (KTJ)

Status: Leader

Role: KTJ’s current leader and also one of al-Qaeda’s devoted followers. In April 2019, Abdul Aziz, an ethnic Uzbek of the Fergana Valley and former deputy emir of the al- Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) in Afghanistan, was elected the new leader of KTJ. According to a UN Security Council report dated 3 February 2022, “KTJ’s capability is undermined by conflict between the current group leader Abdul Aziz and the former group emir Abu Saloh.” But this is a superficial assessment of the situation taking place among the Uzbek jihadists in Syria.

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), first announced by Prime Minister Modi on 9 September 2023 on the sidelines of India’s G20, will accelerate under the new Trump Presidency and the likely resolution of the Israel-Hamas war, a prelude to which is the latest 45-day ceasefire between the warring parties.

Qatar wants the Palestinian Authority (PA) government to collect the garbage, rebuild destroyed houses, and pay salaries to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas is busy rearming, regrouping and getting ready for the next attack on Israel.

[T]he PA government in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians in the West Bank, decided to suspend the broadcasts of the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television for supporting and promoting Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups. Israel and some Arab states had also shut down the broadcasts for the same reason.

Assad regime collected intel on SIRAJ journalists after its reporting on Syria’s use of Western-made trucks triggered more sanctions.

Syria’s feared intelligence services launched an investigation into ICIJ’s Syrian media partner, Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism, after it reported on Damascus’ business links with Europe, internal documents reveal.

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was met with a hard “no” Sunday from the two U.S. allies along with the Palestinians themselves, who fear Israel would never allow them to return.

Trump floated the idea on Saturday, saying he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in Gaza’s now largely homeless population, so that “we just clean out that whole thing.” He added that resettling most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million could be temporary or long term.

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Established In: 15 June 2014;

Established By: Unknown;

Also Known As: People’s Mobilization Committee (PMC), Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), PMF;