”Ne așteptăm ca după cinci ani să primim un mesaj de la Iulian sau noi să-i putem trimite un mesaj. Să știe că familia se gândește la el, iar noi să știm că este bine”, spune sora lui Iulian, Elvira Gherguț, pentru Libertatea. Autoritățile de la București menționează că nu au noutăți, dar că se lucrează.
Let me start with a statement that should be as alarming as it should be uncontentious: The region-wide conflict that now looms largest across the globe is a conflict nobody apparently wants – a conflict triggered by tensions in the Gulf region.
SUDAN U.S. President Trump announced a normalisation agreement between Sudan and Israel on Friday, shortly after signing an order to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for the country paying $335mn to the families of victims of the 1998 Al Qaeda bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. Crisis Group expert Jonas Horner says removing Sudan from the U.S. State Department’s terror list will boost Prime Minister Hamdok politically and facilitate Khartoum’s access to desperately needed international debt relief and loans to combat the country’s dire economic crisis. While the Trump administration will herald the normalisation agreement as a foreign policy victory ahead of the U.S. presidential election, the deal may catalyse a new wave of dissent among Sudanese Islamists.
As part of Turkey’s ruling party hosts Hamas terrorists, it has also begun to try to normalize Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an extremist terror group that is widely seen as an Iranian proxy. Israel has put pressure on PIJ in recent years, killing Bahaa Abu el-Atta in November 2019. According to Russian media, Islamic Jihad deputy leader Akram al-Ajouri’s home was also hit with an airstrike last year in Damascus.
A normalization announcement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is close and there could be major developments following the US presidential elections depending on who wins, Mossad director Yossi Cohen has said in closed conversations, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
France on Saturday said it was recalling its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, needed a mental health check-up, which Paris condemned as unacceptable.
Turkey’s tests of its Russian-made S-400 air defense systems violate Ankara’s commitment to NATO and may hamper its security relations with the US, the Pentagon has said, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the drills.
In a COVID-altered landscape of global security threats, economic opportunities and strategic change, Africa is seizing center stage. Africans form the world’s fastest-growing population and national economies. Violent crises, democracy movements, extremist threats, international investments, human displacement and strategic opportunities all are rising. The coronavirus pandemic underscores both Africa’s risks to global stability from fragile states—and the overlooked potential of a continent now outperforming wealthier regions in containing the public health crisis. COVID is the latest reminder that “Africa’s deepening vulnerabilities and its rising capacities will shape global realities whether we prepare for that or not,” according to scholar Joseph Sany.
Thousands of Syrian women and children set to be freed from al-Hol camp require support to ensure sustainable reconciliation.
More than a year since the territorial defeat of ISIS, the region is still reeling in the wake of the self-styled caliphate’s destruction. Kurdish authorities operate two dozen detention facilities in northeast Syria holding thousands of former ISIS fighters.
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.