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The assassination of the British ambassador in Yemen, revisited “the Russian view”

The US embassy in Yemen has advised its staff to avoid Moven­pick Hotel fre­quented by West­ern­ers, five days after the failed attack on the British Ambas­sador in Sana’a. We said ear­lier that the attack is planned by Yemeni gov­ern­ment to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Where are the U.S. oil companies? The unknown of Iraq’s oil contracts

As Iraq’s Oil Min­istry adviser Thamir Ghad­hban noticed the absence of the Amer­i­can Oil com­pa­nies from Iraq’s oil auc­tion, and Russ­ian RT sur­prised that U.S. com­pa­nies did not show great inter­est — con­trary to the  expec­ta­tions — in the sec­ond … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why the U.S. rejected Yemen’s claims of Iran-Houthis connections?

A bat­tle started this morn­ing between the Houthis and the Saudi mil­i­tary forces around the Saudi bor­der vil­lage Al-Jabir, which the Houthis invaded the Saudi Al-Jabiri mil­i­tary base this week. Last infor­ma­tion from the front says that the bat­tle is still … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syria mediates between Fatah and Hamas

AKI’s Pales­tin­ian sources said that Syria con­vinced Hamas to allow Fatah lead­ers in Gaza to par­tic­i­pate in the Sixth Fatah Con­fer­ence. Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan reported yes­ter­day that Fatah has asked Egypt, Syria, Rus­sia and Turkey to con­vince Hamas to allow … Con­tinue read­ing

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NATO naval-base

Any­body remem­ber this: “ The plan is mapped­with map attach­ment]. If you check the map, then you will dis­cover that the new base is 40 km from Tar­tus Port in Syria, where the Russ­ian ships use as a base, 8 … Con­tinue read­ing

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Russia to arm the Lebanese army

As reported on Anna­har today: Rus­sia wants to arm the Lebanese army unconditionally.

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Travel to Syria ban on military officers

It is not about the approval of Secu­rity Agree­ment by the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil, there are much more impor­tant devel­op­ments today. — Not long time ago I reported about some kind of con­nec­tion between the Geor­gia — Rus­sia war and the Iraqi … Con­tinue read­ing

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Carter to tour Syria and Lebanon this month, Hariri mediates between Europe and Russia

Jimmy Carter will visit Lebanon and Syria this month as revealed by Assafir, Gor­don Brown visit is sched­uled on 27 Nov. Hariri told the Russ­ian news­pa­per RBC­Daily that Lebanon is ready to rec­og­nize Abk­hazia and South Osse­tia as two inde­pen­dent states. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lebanese court wants to question Hariri about his role in financing Fatah Al-Islam

Look at this coin­ci­dence: This report says that Hariri went to Rus­sia for tanks shop­ping because: The cur­rent Amer­i­can mil­i­tary aid is “lim­ited to light weaponry,” stress­ing that the Lebanese army also needs “tanks and artillery equip­ment. Qatari news­pa­per reported … Con­tinue read­ing

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Hamas leader on Obama’s idea to solve the Palestinian issue

Al-Hayat reported today that high rank Hamas offi­cial will visit Rus­sia soon. The news­pa­per said that this is part of Russ­ian plan to review its rela­tions and allies inter­na­tion­ally and region­ally after the Caucasus-war. It is not con­firmed yet but … Con­tinue read­ing

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