Alwaght– Turkey’s incursion into Syria’s northern region of Afrin on January 20 along with extremist factions under the name of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), marked the beginning of a new period in the Turkish foreign policy which can be labeled Erdogan’s neo-Ottomanism. The field reports show that the Turkish ...
Read More »Yemen War: Four Years on
Alwaght– The Saudi-led Arab military coalition’s war on Yemen has entered its fourth year. Since 27 March 2015, the capital Sanaa and a set of other Yemeni cities have been targets for the daily bombardment of the Saudi fighter jets. After three years, the war has made no achievement for ...
Read More »Powers Race for Superiority Leagues under Sea
Alwaght– The military competition has often served the international powers’ will to win strategic superiority. In the present conditions, this race has even intensified as the global developments more and more push the US power status towards shrinkage and the world is now observing the emergence of a new order ...
Read More »Iran’s Leader Urges Support for Domestic Production, Resistance Economy
Alwaght– Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei has called on Iranians to dedicate their efforts to promote domestic production in line with Resistance Economy. In a speech aired minutes after the turn of the year on Tuesday, the Leader extended New Year felicitations to all Iranians ...
Read More »Three Major Obstacles Ahead of Turkey’s Afrin Seizure
Alwaght– The Turkish army has announced that its units have completed their encirclement of Syria’s northern region of Afrin, where the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a military campaign, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, against the Kurdish militias on January 20. Reports made by the human rights activists suggest that ...
Read More »White House Grows More Hardline as Pompeo Comes on Board
Alwaght– Several months after speculations about when exactly the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will resign, the country was surprised to see him fired on Tuesday. Tillerson’s ouster happened not according to the formal process; rather the American president announced firing his Secretary of State through a Twitter post. ...
Read More »IMN says Nigeria will keep Zakzaky detained until he dies
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) says the government in Abuja plans to keep the movement’s leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenah in detention until they die. “Are the tyrants holding the brave sheikh captive waiting for time to kill him since Allah has rescued him from their attempt ...
Read More »Trump Caught between Saudi Nuclear Ambitions, Israeli Opposition
Alwaght– For some time, the US and Saudi Arabia have been engaged in serious talks to build a nuclear reactor for the Arab kingdom. Riyadh has an ambitious plan to build 16 reactors by 2030 that will cost $100 billion. According to the schedule of the negotiations between the Trump ...
Read More »Why West Turns Blind Eye to Terrorist-Besieged Syrian Cities of Fu’ah, Kafriya?
Alwaght– Right on the heels of the recent Syrian army’s successes in its anti-terror push in the Eastern Ghouta in the capital’s suburbs, terrorist groups such as al-Nusra Group and Tahrir al-Sham began since last week mortar and rocket attacks on the two Shiite towns of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya in ...
Read More »Saudi Crown Prince Visiting Egypt amid Standing Differences
Alwaght– Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to make a short visit to Egypt on Sunday. The trip is coming while the two nations’ relations are not as warm as before. Issues that are causing the king in waiting to visit Cairo at the time being could ...
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