ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the administration of US President Donald Trump was making “wrong calculations” regarding the Middle East, adding that heeding “Zionist lies” would only exacerbate conflicts.
Turkiye has…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Turkiye’s Erdogan says US making “wrong calculations” in Mideast
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Israeli security official says military readying to withdraw from Lebanon
BEIRUT: Lebanon on Friday marked 20 years since former prime minister Rafic Hariri’s assassination, with seismic political changes underway that have weakened Hezbollah and its backers and could herald a comeback for…Continue Reading
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Trump admin. appears to relax Israel's deadline to withdraw from Lebanon
A Trump administration official put the onus of Israel’s withdrawal on the Lebanese Army, questioning whether its forces were up to the task of backfilling positions vacated by the Israeli military.
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AL-Monitor Dubai: Syrian Canadian artist Nour Malas at Carbon 12
Sola Olulode, “I’ve Got to Know You Now, We May Never Meet Again”
The poignant and dreamy paintings of the London-based Nigerian British artist Sola Olulode debut this spring in Dubai, at Lawrie Shabibi. Olulode — whose paintings portray…
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Lebanon bars Iranian flight from landing in Beirut, sparking protests
A group of Lebanese citizens protested on the road to the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport on Thursday after the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority told an Iranian Mahan Air flight that it could not land in Beirut.
Mahan Air, which…
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Squeezed between Turkey and Sharaa, Syria's Kurds face stark choices
Syria’s Kurds risk losing autonomy amid Turkish opposition and uncertain US backing.
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Israel’s military presence in Lebanon dependant on Beirut’s actions
Israeli military presence in five points across southern Lebanon is directly dependant on the actions of the Lebanese government, an official in the Trump administration told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
“Israeli presence in the five…
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AL-Monitor Istanbul: Mesher Gallery’s love letter to the city
Istanbul has never just been a city. It has always been much more — a stage and a muse, for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, who awakes in Istanbul and finds herself transformed, for James Bond in his high-stakes chases along the Bosphorus, and for…
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Lebanon says refuses Israeli demand to stay in five southern locations
Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said on Thursday that Beirut rejected Israel’s demand to remain in five southern locations after a February 18 deadline for fully implementing a ceasefire deal.
Concerns have mounted ahead of a deadline…
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US sanctions ICC chief prosecutor over Israel investigations
The United States on Thursday sanctioned the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court over the ICC’s investigations targeting US personnel as well as alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
The US Treasury Department said in a statement…
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