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Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claims responsibility for Ankara attack
British Defense Minister Grant Shapps: We are deploying RAF Typhoons to Poland
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: We have waited 60 years at the doorstep of the European Union. We are no longer waiting.
Al Mayadeen correspondent: One civilian martyred, another injured by Saudi Arabia's armed forces in Saada, Yemen.
The Turkish authorities have banned media from broadcasting at the scene of an attempted terrorist attack that hit the capital near Parliament earlier.
An explosion and gunfire heard in Turkey’s capital Ankara near the parliament and the ministries.
US House 45-day stopgap funding bill with no aid for Ukraine gets enough votes.
Alastair Crooke

Alastair Crooke

Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat; Author.

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Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’
Analysis

Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’

The stark reality is that even if Ukraine gets this quarterly tranche, ‘the ask’ for the next will almost certainly be even more problematic.

  • 30 Sep 15:22
Blinken’s ‘Variable Geometry’ for a New Cold War
Analysis

Blinken’s ‘Variable Geometry’ for a New Cold War

What is clear is that the ruling strata in Washington are settled on the primacy of containing China.

  • 24 Sep 00:21
Old habits, linger … linger well past the time when old rituals (an Israeli PM visit to the Oval Office) had agency and the world hung on the outcome. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Arwa Makki)
Opinion

Will a tripartite US-Saudi-Israeli ‘Deal’ make Any difference?

An image of the White House lecturing, and facing off versus Netanyahu’s policies, might look ‘tough’ … but will any of this elaborate ‘dance’ -- whether Biden and Netanyahu meet or not -- make a jot of difference?

  • 16 Sep 14:56
The Smotrich-Ben-Gvir riposte seems to be working: Already, there is reportedly a rise in support for the Jewish Power party among the IOF’s rank and file, with an estimated 20% of IOF soldiers voting for Ben-Gvir’s party.
Opinion

Netanyahu Coalition Goes Full Provocation -- As the US Escalates in Syria

The security anxieties amongst "Israel’s" professional military caste are very real. There is tension in the north with Lebanon, rising tensions with the Palestinians, and Syria is edging towards major ruption.

  • 09 Sep 14:29
The New Commodity Powerhouse
Analysis

The New Commodity Powerhouse

The BRICS 11 now represents 37% of the global GDP (in PPP terms) and 46% of the global population. The G7 GDP is 29.9% (PPP terms), by comparison.  

  • 02 Sep 23:06
What Israel is 'doing' is not deter, but entangle itself in a series of smouldering regional brush fires that can burst into flames with one single spark.
Opinion

Old ligaments of entanglement are unwinding; 'Israel' should ‘Keep Out’

Change is ineluctable. If "Israel" intervenes -- imagining it to be helping America -- it is likely to prove to be a strategic mistake.

  • 19 Aug 22:37
Prime Minister Netanyahu might be viewed by historians as strategically great for Israel - because he succeeded in achieving independence from the US, whilst, at the same time, manipulating American domestic politics. That’s not nothing.
Opinion

Worldly-wise, Mid-East strategy from an avowed sceptic

Steven Simon, a former White House official, has written a book on US influence in the Middle East, which offers quite the take on the dynamics of the relationship between the US and "Israel".

  • 12 Aug 21:29
A spooked White House rushes its Saudi fences: ‘Saving the dollar’!
Opinion

A spooked White House rushes its Saudi fences: ‘Saving the dollar’!

This is the crux: Biden is desperate to have Riyadh buy Treasuries and to keep buying them.

  • 05 Aug 23:53
It is his nature to say one thing to one interlocutor, and flatly assert the direct opposite to another; it is in his nature to be indecisive.
Opinion

Can Netanyahu re-position strategically? Is it even feasible?

To which sphere would Netanyahu think to hitch the Israeli ‘wagon’?  To remain as the isolated Western outlier, protruding into a consolidated Eurasian mega economic and security bloc, or try to go with the Russia axis?

  • 29 Jul 14:22
The 2006 war on Lebanon: A pilot for Re-setting the Military Balance?
Analysis

The 2006 war on Lebanon: A pilot for Re-setting the Military Balance?

Hezbollah had taken the trouble to ‘deep-study’ their enemy; to know their strengths and weaknesses, and therefore know how to mount the feints to deceive them.

  • 22 Jul 23:16
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