Taliban moves into Afghanistan presidential palace. Elected president flees
Taliban soldiers were photographed around desks at the presidential palace in Kabul on Monday, Aug.16, hours after President Ashraf Ghani
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Iran backs Azerbaijan, sends arms to Armenia
Iran like Turkey consistently supports Azerbaijan, the fourth Shiite Islamic majority nation in the world, while refraining from roundly condemning
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The UAE-Israel normalization deal upends rigid Arab conventions on Mid-East peace
An almost religious precept held by the Arab world was that no normal relations with Israel were allowed before Palestinian
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How the Syrian war is lifted into Libya’s Battle for Tripoli
Russia has just airlifted into Libya the 350-strong Syrian rebel “Fifth Legion,” once linked to Israel, to combat a second
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Turkish leader and UAE emir face off over the Palestinian succession race
By offering a 10m lira ($1.7) reward for the capture of exiled Palestinian politician Mohammad Dahlan, Turkish President Recep Erdogan
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Turkey reneges on NATO’s Baltic defense plan to extort US concessions in Syria
In another anti-US provocation, President Recep Erdogan ordered the Turkish ambassador to NATO to withhold signature on Wednesday, Nov. 27,
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Abdullah cuts down Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, while reorienting his policy on détente with Turkey, Syria, Qatar
Jordan’s King Abdullah notified Israel on Sunday, Oct. 21, that he will not renew two annexes of the peace treaty
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Khashoggi case: Vile murder, palace intrigue against crown prince or plot to torpedo US-Saudi ties?
It could be any or all these, since no one still knows what befell the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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Post-war Syria destined to be sanctions-busting hub, the Russian-Iranian-Turkish summit decides
Shared mechanisms for beating US sanctions against Iran may be built into Syria’s massive post-war reconstruction program, DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources
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Three Russian warships steaming to Syria for Idlib operation. Hizballah opts out
Turkey sighted 3 Russian warships passing through the Bosporus on Thursday, Aug. 23, on their way to the Syrian port
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