Like other exiled Iranians, chess champion Mitra Hejazipour has been scouring social media for news about anti-government protests in her homeland and battling to reach friends and family through an ongoing internet shutdown.
The 32-year-old is…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Sudan's RSF says Chad border clashes 'unintentional' after 7 soldiers killed
Chad, which Sudan’s government accuses of backing the paramilitary RSF, said that the incursion killed seven Chadian soldiers.
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Some European states rethink presence at US base in Gaza
Several European countries are considering whether to stop sending personnel to a US military-led coordination center for Gaza, saying it has failed to increase aid flows to the war-shattered enclave or achieve political change, diplomats…
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Kurdish leaders seek to unite around Syrian Kurds in Rojava
“We are going in to fight side by side with our people in Rojava,” the Office of General Hussein Yazdanpanah, commander-in-chief of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), told The Jerusalem Post.“We are in negotiations with the relevant parties…
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US estimates 200 Islamic State fighters escaped Syrian prison, US official says
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – About 200 low-level Islamic State fighters escaped Syria’s Shaddadi prison on Monday after guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces left the facility, but Syrian government forces recaptured many of…
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Is Syria’s al-Sharaa a master geopolitical chess player?
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has appeared to outwit many of his enemies over the years. As his forces have swept across eastern Syria, pushing by the Syrian Democratic Forces, one image being published on social media shows Shara’a playing…
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UAE becomes early supporter of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ with formal acceptance
DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) accepted an invitation to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly proposed “Board of Peace,” the UAE foreign ministry said on Tuesday, placing Abu Dhabi among the first governments to…
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Trump fumes at Macron over Greenland, Gaza peace board snub, threatens French wine tariff
US President Donald Trump has made a series of online posts and comments apparently designed to humiliate allies France, Britain and Canada as the row over Greenland threatens to engulf the Davos forum, while also taking issue with…
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Kurdish-led SDF pulls out of camp for IS families during clashes in Syria
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says it has withdrawn from a camp holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), as clashes with the Syrian government continue despite a ceasefire…
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Iranian parliament warns of jihad if Supreme Leader is attacked, ISNA
DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Any attack on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would trigger a declaration of jihad, or holy war, the Iranian Students News Agency quoted Iran’s national security parliamentary commission as saying on…
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