Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” was recently commenced with the stated intent of destroying what Ankara believes to be “Kurdish terrorists” in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin. The NATO member earlier warned that it would be forced to intervene there in response to the existential threat that the US’ plans for deploying a 30,000-strong “Border Security Force” pose to its...
October 17, 2025
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January 23, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, Special Column, World
Post ISIS Syria and the Operation Olive Branch
Turkish military has launched an all-out assault named operation ‘Olive Branch’ in Afrin region of Syria, where the US backed and Kurds formed YPG is operating. The timing is very important. On the one hand, one of the key actors in Middle-Eastern geopolitics, the US is in deep domestic political crisis over Trump’s performance as...
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January 6, 2018September 18, 2025World
ICAN Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech – Nuclear Weapons Ban Now
Beatrice Fihn, Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), has delivered the Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize award to ICAN. 2 months ago the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was set for ratification and will enter into force 90 days after 50 countries have ratified it. Beatrice...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House review – tell-all burns all
Borrowed from The Guardian Amid the daily din of Donald Trump’s White House comes Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s tell-all, just in time for the first anniversary of the Trump inaugural. Like the “burn book” in the movie Mean Girls, Fire and Fury contains a toxic tale that singes all. In Wolff’s telling, Trump World is...
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‘I, Neocon’ – the Foreign Policy of Emperor Trump
Not many observers believe that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will survive as the most-neutered US Secretary of State since the days when Richard Nixon’s national security adviser Henry Kissinger called the shots on foreign policy to the chagrin of Secretary of State William Rogers. Rather than lead like a constitutionally-mandated president, Donald Trump...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
‘They came to kill’: Palestinian village grieves for 16-year-old Musaab al-Tamimi
Borrowed from Middle East Eye While international attention has focused on the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian 16-year-old girl arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier, another branch of the Tamimi family on Thursday buried their own child. On Wednesday, Musaab al-Tamimi, also 16, was shot in the neck during clashes with Israeli soldiers as...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Turkey Is Undergoing A Radical Shift, From Pluralism To Islamic Populism
A year ago, on the evening of a failed coup attempt against the government of Turkey, I was celebrating a family wedding in a posh restaurant on the Bosporus in Istanbul. I was at a table with the grandfather of the young bride ― my uncle, who is a law professor and prominent representative of...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column, World
The Geopolitics of the Beijing-Moscow Consensus
Borrowed from THE DIPLOMAT In the late 1950s the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations paved the way for the historic meeting between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong in 1972. The offspring of that meeting was the Shanghai Communiqué, and the onset of the Sino-American détente on one side and that Soviet containment in the...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column, World
Trump Nuking North Korea Would “Make America Great Again”?
Written by : Andrew KORYBKO, a political commentator, and specialist in global politics If Trump is willing to accept the enormous loss of American life — which are the only people that he cares about as the US President — then turning the Korean Peninsula into Asia’s nuclear panhandle would indeed “Make America Great Again”...
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December 30, 2017September 18, 2025Muslim World, Special Column, World
UN JERUSALEM VOTE: EPIC HUMILIATION OR BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICA?
Courtesy : Andrew Korybko , A Political Analyst and Commentator International media is correct in framing the UN General Assembly vote on Jerusalem as an epic humiliation for the US, but it’s overlooking how this entire controversy was choreographed by the Trump Administration as a brilliant opportunity to obtain a “plausible” pretext for scaling down and...