Ensuring the safety of Rojava and the ethnic minorities living under the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria is essential to Israel’s own security, board members of the Kurdish-Jewish Alliance told The Jerusalem Post on…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Israel’s safety tied to Kurdish security
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Humanitarian corridors open for Syrian Kurds
Kurdish civilians in the northern Syrian city of Kobane are now suffering under siege by the Syrian Transitional Government. The Syrian Democratic Forces were forced to retreat in the face of an offensive by the Syrian army in mid-January. This…
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IDF: Wave of strikes target Hezbollah operatives, infrastructure across Lebanon
A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure throughout Lebanon on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, with Lebanese officials reporting at least one dead.
According to the IDF, one of the strikes targeted a…
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Former PM who destroyed Iraq makes unlikely comeback
In early June of 2014, members of the Islamic State, which would soon be called ISIS or Daesh in most media, launched an offensive in Iraq. The black-clad group of extremists had already captured several Sunni towns and cities north and west of…
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Dozens arrested after breaching London prison grounds in support of Palestine Action
LONDON — Eighty-six people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters breached the grounds of a London prison in support of a pro-Palestinian hunger striker, UK police said Sunday.
The group was “protesting in…
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Iraq has no reason to send forces to Iran amid protests
“There is no interest or justification for the Iraqi government to send backup forces to Tehran, nor is Iran in need of extra reinforcement from Baghdad,” said Sheikh Ghaith Al-Tamimi, a prominent Iraqi scholar of Islamic theology and the…
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Syria’s gov’t acting with US support in south Syria
The Syrian government is acting in coordination with the United States, under the impression that the US supports Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s actions to take control over Jabal al-Druze, a Syrian defense official told Israeli broadcaster…
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TIME: Iran may have killed 30,000 protesters in two days
As many as 30,000 people may have been killed across Iran during a two-day crackdown on January 8 and 9, TIME reported on Sunday, citing two senior Health Ministry officials and a separate compilation of hospital data shared with the publication….
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Trump’s Greenland ambitions strain MAGA ties with Europe’s far right
BRUSSELS — Tensions over US President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of Greenland have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe’s far right.
The rift seems to signal that ideological alignment alone may…
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Inside Iranian narco trafficking in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has always been a major node for regional and international trade, heading both east and west. But, in recent years, the Sulaymaniyah governorate in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan has become a hub for Iranian narco…
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