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How will Al-Sharaa respond to the Israeli attacks?
Israel has gone too far in its attacks on Syria this time, as its warplanes bombed the vicinity of the presidential palace in Damascus. In a joint statement with Defence Minister Israel Katz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered the bombing “a clear message to the Syrian regime: We will…
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All these crises are in Kuwait
Some may have been surprised by the decision of the Emir of Kuwait, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to dissolve the National Assembly (Parliament), when it had only been a month and a few days since its members were elected in the early elections held on 4 April. However, the decision…
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What’s behind the declaration of the new Maghreb alliance?
Suddenly, more than a week after the end of the tripartite Carthage summit between the presidents of Algeria and Tunisia and the head of the Libyan Presidential Council, the Algerian News Agency announced that the summit, which culminated in the Carthage Declaration, was held to establish a new approach whereby…
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Turkey and the neutrality option
Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a “state of war”, after first referring to it as the Russian invasion. Russia itself, meanwhile, refers to it as a “military operation”, in order to avoid the consequences, especially those related to the Montreux Convention, the…
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Why has Sisi threatened to intervene in Libya?
Why did Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi threaten to intervene in Libya when it is unlikely that such a threat will be translated into military operations? It is unlikely despite the fact that he regards the city of Sirte and the Libyan air base at Al-Jufra as red lines and…