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Items by Ahmed Muwaffaq Zaidan
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What did Russia lose from the Ukraine war?
The Russian military setback that took place recently in Kherson, after the Russian President had annexed it to his country weeks ago, is in fact a strategic military setback for Putin personally, despite him distancing himself from the withdrawal decision made by Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu. However, everyone inside...
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Afghanistan and the sanctions model against Iraq
There are similarities between the reality of Afghanistan and the Taliban, which emerged victorious in its confrontation with an international coalition led by America, and the situation of Iraq after the 1980-1988 war with Iran. After the Taliban victory, the US imposed sanctions on the new regime in Kabul...
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Marzouki: the icon of the Tunisian Spring
Dr Mohamed Moncef Marzouki was not a product of the Tunisian Spring, which was the first of the Arab Spring revolutions. He was truly one of the actors behind this stand against tyranny very early on, having been one of its victims for decades because of forming and supporting...
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From punishing the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people
Following the departure of American occupation forces from Afghanistan it seems that the international community, especially the US, is moving from trying to punish the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people. It was the Taliban fighters, of course, who basically defeated US troops in the longest war in American...
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The international strategy to divert attention from Syria’s real problem
The sectarian regime in Damascus seized power 50 years ago and has mastered the strategy of diverting attention from the real and fundamental problem under which the Syrian people are suffering. Unity, freedom and socialism are reinforced by false slogans of perseverance, steadfastness and resistance. Since the beginning of the...
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Who killed 8,000 prisoners in Syria’s slaughterhouses?
While Russia, the Godfather of the Syrian revolution, was talking about forcibly returning Syrian refugees to the sectarian slaughterhouses, just as they were forcibly displaced against their will, the Syrian regime revealing that 8,000 detainees have died in its prisons, international human rights organisations revealed. The message is intended to...