Media fail to recognize that the area between Ras Al Ain and Tal Abyad is almost entirely Arab and try to prove that a demographic change is taking place
US President Donald Trump took several decisions on the Syria conflict recently, which triggered political and media pressure on him. Most criticism either attempted to score political and media points against Trump or stemmed from motives that have nothing to do with Syria. The Syria crisis embodied a good opportunity for Trump opponents to unleash...
... US’s Kurdish allies certainly invited the Turks to intervene on a larger scale than before. That presented Moscow with the unpalatable possibility of a direct collision between its allies in Ankara and Damascus. Russia is unlikely to have endorsed Turkey’s invasion, which threatened its system of regional balance.
Russia owes its success in Syria so far to its ability to stay in touch with all relevant players in the region. This includes clear antagonists such as Israel and Iran, and Iran and ...
... even mean that these are children with Dutch heritage over generations. No, these are children with two parents who were simply born in the Netherlands. And so this also includes children with parents whose parents were born in places like Suriname, Turkey, the former Soviet Union, or Portugal. So the landscape has changed dramatically, and diversity has become the new norm.
Maurice Crul
: Well, I think we have to look at the cities where this has already been a long-established practice. These are ...
... of Arabism and Syria, its ‘heart’.” The concept of Arabism no longer has the same ring to it: Egypt is no longer the leader, new centers of financial and political influence have emerged in the Gulf area, and non-Arab regional players such as Turkey, Iran, and Israel are now ascendant. The altered alignment of forces at the regional level has turned Syria into an arena where Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, the two religious centers and leaders of the two main Islamic denominations, are ...
... work this position during Putin’s visit.
The Syria peace process will be a key item on the Moscow-Riyadh agenda. The launch of a Syrian constitutional committee was announced earlier in September, thereby marking the start of a political process. Turkey is gaining more leverage over the Syrian opposition, yet Putin recently signaled Moscow expects the Saudis to play their role.
“I know that the leaders of Saudi Arabia, whom I am going to visit soon, and the leaders of Iran — we are in constant ...
... Export Center and similar institutions), the Russian strategy needs to be careful when identifying the partner countries in Africa. Many of the major actors have tested their African strategies on a limited group of countries: Somalia in the case of Turkey; Sudan and Angola in the case of China; and East African countries in the case of India. It would seem that the Russian leadership is being cautious in this respect and is looking into the possibility of forming two test groups: large African countries ...
... of the 2016 Steinmeier initiative, are focusing so much on CAC than on the issue itself. And finally, in the framework of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, a group of authors from Germany, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the US presented a concrete
proposal
for sub-regional arms control in the Baltic region — “Reducing the Risks of Conventional Deterrence. Arms Control in the NATO-Russia Contact Zones”.
There are many, to some extent, reasonable arguments ...
... improving the energy efficiency of production and transitioning to clean energy sources. Forestry projects have been particularly common of late, having been
launched
in 83 countries, with the majority of those being in India, China, the United States, Turkey, and Brazil.
The development of the green bonds market has led to the expansion of international low carbon projects. A green bond is a debt instrument, the issuer of which receives a fixed amount of funds from the investor and then directs it ...
... with real intention to understand each other and plan for the region’s future.
Iran has concerns, but it is pretty much driven by the past, by the Iran-Iraq War, by the international blockades and by rivalry with America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. So, in this context, Iran believes that it is looking after its own security interests. Those who want Iran to toe the line need to reassure it and engage it in a dialogue. Conversely, Iran has to appreciate that the way it is spreading its influence,...
... political cost, as Russian missiles are subject to US sanctions. The contract on the S-400 or even S-300 (both systems are produced by the company Almaz-Antey) may expose Iraq to such sanctions. That said, the threat of sanctions did not prevent China, Turkey or India from buying the weapons.
Russia, in turn, should it sell defense systems to Iraq, may find that maintaining its “special relations” with Israel is challenging.
Second, Iraq can be certain that Moscow takes this request seriously, considering ...
