Turkey says it wants a quadrilateral meeting in order to advance in rapprochement with Syria, according to al-Watan. Turkish statements about rapprochement with Damascus have returned to the fore again. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came out on Sunday with statements calling for a Syrian-Russian-Turkish meeting, pointing out the possibility of Iran joining this meeting […]
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This is an interesting deal considering the government in Libya is “contested” at this time. DW Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has signed a gas deal worth billions on a visit to Libya. The plan is for Italian and Libyan energy giants to jointly develop two offshore gas fields. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited […]
Jewish News Service January 30, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Monday warned Americans of possible “imminent retaliatory attacks” in the country in response to several recent incidents of Koran burning in Europe. “The U.S. government cautions its citizens of possible imminent retaliatory attacks by terrorists against churches, synagogues and diplomatic missions […]
Wall Street Journal via Archive.ph https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-ammunition-factory-hit-by-blast-11674951968 Iran said three drones caused an explosion at an ammunition factory in the city of Isfahan late Saturday, amid fresh tensions with the West and Israel over Tehran’s military involvement in Ukraine and stalled negotiations to revive an international accord that limits Iran’s nuclear activities. Phone footage captured by […]
YPG was the rebrand of PKK. With some Arabs mixed in for good measure. And they were all ISIS in different costumes. So now we have a ‘restructure’ on the go! The U.S. is trying to restructure the Syrian Democratic Forces, according to al-Watan. U.S. intelligence held meetings inside the illegal occupation base in (SYRIA) […]
Link– Digital Journal Interesting? Amir-Abdollahian in Ankara right after a visit to Damascus. Cavusoglu said he intended to hold his first official meeting with Mekdad “in the upcoming period”. “Today, we emphasised that Iran’s contribution to this process is very important,” Cavusoglu said. US Concerns Washington’s relations with Ankara are already strained by US support […]
TASS Ankara may close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to warships, but Russia will still have the right to use them for the return of its fleet to its base, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. “Ukraine has sent us an official request [to close the straits to Russian warships]. The provisions of […]
https://thecradle.co/Article/Investigations/19494 US and Israeli-backed armed Kurdish separatists on the Iraqi border have participated in every incident of Iranian domestic strife, from 2009 to 2022. ” Since April 2003, after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, West Asia transformed into a vast playground for an array of foreign states and entities. Among them are Iranian Kurdish […]
https://web.archive.org/web/20171028184128/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html From the past to the present ( the present featured in the second report for today) original url https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html Still viable url! https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/iran-s-forgotten-kurds-step-up-the-struggle-1.140788 KDPI PJAK, PKK, KDPI So the present day problem in Iran with the alphabet Kurdish groups has been present for a very long time Far longer than this nearly 7 year […]
via the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20140815170104/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2014/08/maliki-stands-down-us-regime-change.html my blog from 2014 original url to June 14/14– try the wayback again. https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-delivered-ultimatum-to-maliki-via.html The Obama administration had been weighing the use of US ground forces and aircraft to mount an emergency rescue That strategy depends on the formation of a new Iraqi government Therefore it’s correctly written that the […]