The triumphal advance of Turkish-backed forces, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* (HTS) and the Syrian National Army* (SNA), from Idlib to Damascus has been the result of years of robust support from Turkey – military, intelligence, financial, and diplomatic – coupled with formal non-intervention by the United States and European nations. Israel, another active particip...
In recent months, even across the collective West’s media, growing admissions are being made about both Russia and China’s superior military industrial capacity. With Russia’s first use of the intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, it is admitted that Russia (and likely China) possess formidable military capabilities the collective West currentl...
HTS’s* statements about the desire to build a bright future for Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad are disbelieving. Sam Heller, an analyst and employee of Century International, expressed his opinion on the Foreign Affairs website. He suggested that there is reason to believe that HTS’s* statements about the transition to moderate values are not t...
On the 17th December 2024, Polish member of European Parliament, Grzegorz Braun asked whom the legislative body would nominate for murder and destruction, which reveals how Europe conducted these crimes against Syria. Braun’s speech emphasized Europe’s hypocrisy, especially how the region describes delegitimizing, robbing, and killing its nominated opponents...
This event aligns with longstanding objectives, including the subsequently planned disarming, division, and destruction of Iran and the toppling of the Iranian government, the possible eviction of Russian military bases in Syria, and the use of US-sponsored terrorist organizations utilized in overrunning Syria to export terrorism to other targeted nations bo...
Türkiye does not hide its ambitions; it makes public various programme provisions and concepts, which focus on raising the status of Turkish statehood to the rank of a regional superpower. For this reason, when former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu explained in Washington the essence of the doctrine of neo-Ottomanism, developed by him in the framew...
The suspect, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was apprehended only a week later, with the help of a tip-off from a McDonald’s diner. Notably, social media saw a wave of sympathy for Mangione and condemnation of the McDonald’s staff who reported him. This highlights the widespread resentment among Americans towards health insurance companies. Mangione’s backpack c...
With surprising aplomb, the international press assures us that we are not witnessing a military change of regime in Syria, but a revolution overthrowing the Syrian Arab Republic. The presence of the Turkish army and US special forces is hidden from us. We are bombarded with propaganda that has been denied several times about the crimes attributed to “Bashar...
After the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the bombardment of opinions and tumultuous ambiguities have further densified the fog of conflict. The discourse on what actually happened in Damascus encompasses a wide range of predictions, from the unwillingness of the Syrian military to their inability to counter the foes. However, reflecting on recent ...
Anger is as normal a human emotion as any other – affection, combativeness, protectiveness, sorrow. It gets a bad press these days, though. That is especially true in intellectual circles and among the self-consciously virtuous /goodhearted in general. That’s surprising in one sense. After all, an incapacity to get angry probably would have resulted in homo ...
Turkey recognized Israel in March 1949. Less serious ups and downs sometimes accompanied the bilateral relations between the two sides in the following decades. These relations continued during the rule of the Justice and Development Party over Turkey. The killing of 8 Turkish citizens by Israel in 2010, the reduction of tensions in 2016, the expulsion of am...
Terrorist groups, following a brief advance across several fronts and battles in which the government army effectively refused to engage, managed to capture the Syrian capital, Damascus. Initially, it seemed that this was merely a temporary disarray caused by years of complacency. However, it soon became evident that a large-scale betrayal had occurred withi...
Reuters cited a source in Ukraine’s SBU on Tuesday to report that they were responsible for assassinating Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces (RChBZ). RT reminded their audience that he was instrumental in informing the world about the WMD threat posed by Ukraine. This includes its Amer...
The Chinese may wonder what the issue is since Trump threatens them with 100% tariffs and indeed such tariffs have been imposed on China by both the USA and Canada on certain electronic components, computer chips and the like. China has retaliated by stopping export of rare minerals necessary to make those components, and so downward the spiral swirls. China...
Then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, now in asylum in Moscow, following negotiations with the participants of the conflict, resigned from the presidency and left Syria, instructing a peaceful transfer of power. The power was taken by rebel groups, led by the Salafi-Jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham*...
Evil – its sources and manifestations – is not something that is of much interest these days. That is, except for moralizing by the self-righteous who use religion to promote their self-serving agendas. We prefer to converse about the soft emotions and attendant soft sins or misbehavior associated with narcissism, status obsessions, avarice and fame. To the ...
Russia’s strategic alliances, along with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and economic growth, are reshaping global power dynamics. On the other hand, the United States’ military interventions and isolationist moves have raised a critical question: can it adapt to this new global reality, or will it continue to lose influence on these emerging...
The sudden and dramatic collapse of Syria has sent shockwaves through both the region and the world, triggering a cascade of geopolitical repercussions. As Israel expands its buffer zone on the Golan Heights—territory recognized internationally as Syrian but annexed by Israel decades ago—the vision of a “Greater Israel” seems to be advancing at an unpreceden...
Publicly financed Russian media’s reaction to Syria’s regime change is a lot different than most could have expected after they earlier warned that this could lead to an unprecedented terrorist crisis. Those concerns were warranted since Turkish-backed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is designated as a terrorist group and was originally part of Al Qaeda. Neverthe...
The protests are a repeat of similar unrest that targeted Georgia in 2003 leading to the overthrow of the elected government then. A 2004 Guardian article titled, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev,” not only admitted that unrest in Ukraine that year was fully organized, directed, and backed by the US government, it admitted that similar US-sponsored un...
The Middle East remains one of the key regions where the interests of major actors and their policy priorities are concentrated. At the same time, the continuous mosaic of many internal contradictions in the region (between and within countries) is an attractive environment for the involvement of external players. In this sense, Syria retains a complex of in...
Within two weeks of the election of Donald Trump, outgoing US President Joe Biden took an extremely disruptive step in international relations, pushing the conflict in Ukraine to a much more dangerous level by authorising Kiev to use American long-range missiles against Russian territory, a rogue move certainly intended to hinder the détente his successor...
The Biden administration, having lost both presidential and congressional elections to the Republicans, appears to be following a scorched-earth policy. Before Trump is sworn in, and before he can move towards a negotiated resolution of the Russia-Ukraine (NATO) military conflict in 2025, the outgoing administration seems willing to make issues much more com...
On December 3, 2024, South Korean ultra-right and isolated President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law in a surprise nationally televised address, citing the need to protect the country from “North Korean communist forces” and “anti-state forces.” He framed the move as a necessary step to “rebuild and protect” South Korea from “falling into ruin.”...
Trump’s ability to “somehow” navigate this without igniting further regional unrest or alienating his political base and major donors will be a delicate balancing act. His unequivocal support for Israel may not hold steady, as global opinion grows ever more critical of the Zionist state, and its racist and genocidal policies. Even Trump has hinted at this, u...
Belarusian media reported last week about the West’s alleged plot to destabilize and then invade their country. Existing information warfare campaigns are meant to facilitate the recruitment of more sleeper cell agents, who’ll later stage a terrorist insurgency using Ukrainian-procured arms. Mercenaries will then invade from the south, carry out drone strike...
The missile’s capabilities represent a serious non-nuclear means of striking targets anywhere in Europe without the collective West’s ability to sufficiently defend against it. The possibility of the West now facing direct consequences for what has so far been a proxy war, may reintroduce rational thought across the West otherwise not required when spending ...
Thursday [Nov 28-ed] was an historic day for African geopolitics since Chad announced that it’s expelling French troops while Senegal said that it plans to do the same in the near future. These are France’s last military outposts in the Sahel after it was expelled from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, which now form the Sahelian Alliance that’s also merging in...
Speaking at the 17th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues, I would like to remind the august gathering that I spoke at this forum here in Geneva on 13th May 2003, requesting the UN to look into Bangladesh, as it was moving toward becoming a monolithic Islamic country, and I highlighted the plight of Hindu and other religious...
Russia has deployed thousands of North Korean soldiers to defend its Kursk region, attacked in August by Ukrainian integral nationalists. Washington considers this fact as a development of the war it has been waging since 1950, despite a ceasefire, against the Korean and Chinese communists, even more than as a development of the one it has been waging throug...
At the transformative G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 18-19 November 2024, a bold declaration was adopted, reaffirming the determination to address global challenges and foster sustainable and inclusive growth. This historic meeting marks a milestone in global governance with the integration of the African Union as a full member. Recognizing the dev...