Author Archives: Sappho

Arab forces to Syria? The mistake of 1976 once again

Image above from the head­line of the Guardian 1976 Race against time before the com­ing Arab Sum­mit in Bagh­dad next March (Three GCC coun­tries Saudi Ara­bia, Qatar and Bahrain are already plot­ting to post­pone the Sum­mit, accord­ing to to Al-Seyassah). … Con­tinue read­ing

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A threat of a Sunni-Kurdish confederation or a test balloon?

Another Turkish-Iraqi ties hec­tic day as Iraq sum­moned the Turk­ish ambas­sador to express unease over Turkey’s poli­cies towards Iraq, while Ankara and Irbil become closer as Turkey’s most senior diplo­mat held unan­nounced meet­ing with Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kur­dis­tan … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Syria, Iraq and Russia tricked the Arab League and the Anti-Assad camp!

On Wednes­day, Decem­ber 14, Qatar, who chairs the Pres­i­dency of the Arab League (the pres­i­dency will end in March this year and goes to Iraq) decided to trans­fer the Syr­ian unrest to the UN-Security Coun­cil after Dam­as­cus refused to sign … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi Kurds play untraditional regional game in the struggle for power in Syria

Using every oppor­tu­nity to seize the power to their side play­ing the king­maker role, Iraqi Kur­dish Coali­tion right now plays a deci­sive role in future of Maliki’s gov­ern­ment, but on the regional arena and look­ing to Syria, the Iraqi Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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Qatar’s next target, Mauritania

A visit from the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad, and every­thing went accord­ing to the plan, Qatar and Mau­ri­ta­nia singed at least 12 agree­ment to boost ties between both coun­tries. But things went ugly when the Sheikh Hamad of Qatar … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqiya List” tiny split

Pathetic arti­cle on the NYTimes. The way Al-Iraqiya-trio describe them­selves as “nation­al­ists, sec­u­lar and lib­er­als” is a sad indi­ca­tion shows that they are out of touch with the cur­rent world and regional devel­op­ments. In less than 24 hours after I … Con­tinue read­ing

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The future political fragmentation of the Sunnis in Iraq

The US ended the mil­i­tary occu­pa­tion of Iraq but its diplo­matic and eco­nomic influ­ence still present, casts its con­se­quences on the future of Iraqi pol­i­tics. In this regard we will see that the com­ing days will wit­ness a polit­i­cal rearrange­ment … Con­tinue read­ing

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Muslim Brotherhood and the root of the recent crisis in Iraq

With the recent rise of the Islamists (the Global Mus­lim Broth­er­hood) “pop­u­lar­ity” in the Arab coun­tries sup­ported by the West, Iraqi Sunni Islamists are dou­ble mar­gin­alised First– by the Shi­ite gov­ern­ment. Sec­ond — by the sec­u­lar lead­er­ship of Al-Iraqiya List. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Qaeda flag in Syria

After the Span­ish News­pa­per ABC revealed the The Libyan NATO-Rebel are air­lifted to the Syr­ian bor­der in Yebel Zawi (Zawiya Moun­tain). Aljazeera tried to hide the facts report­ing a video of a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion against the Syr­ian reg­u­lar army in … Con­tinue read­ing

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The war of the press conferences

The cur­rent Iraqi cri­sis started bad and turned ugly, but there is one thing I should say: Even a peace­ful solu­tion means many changes in the future polit­i­cal map of Iraq .. in a later post, I will explain why … Con­tinue read­ing

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