Al-Jazeera released additional deatails about a EU-wide arms embargo against Saudi Arabia in response to the Gulf state’s heavy bombing campaign in Yemen.
The diplomatic standoff between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has led to a rift between Wahhabi clerics. Saudi security forces have used this opportunity to remove some government opponents.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the National Defense Forces (NDF) and their allies have achieved more gainst against ISIS in the eastern Hama countryside in central Syria
Qais Alkhazali, leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq [a part of the Popular Mobilization Units], welcomed the Iraqi Parliament’s decision to oppose an independence referendum promoted by the Kurdistan Region government and and emphasized his support to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi in preserving Iraq’s integrity.
Proposing by 80 parliament representatives, 168 member of parliament refused holding a referendum in Kurdistan.
Kurd members abstracted.
Meanwhile, Massud Barezani is negotiating people of Karkuk about referendum in a trip to this city.
According to the news and analytics outlet of Islamic World News the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the start of Operation Deir Ezzor, called the Storm of the Island
According to the news and analytics outlet of Islamic World News 13 Arab and 7 Turkmen Party of Kirkuk boycotted the referendum in Kirkuk due to the illegality, and they asked the citizens of Kirkuk not to attend the referendum.
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Dr. Tim Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He researches and writes on development, human rights and self-determination in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East.
According to the news and analytics outlet of Islamic World News the Deir Ezzor-Damascus route liberated completely.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) lifted the nine month long siege imposed on the Deir Ezzor Military Airport, Saturday, following a short operation against the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS).
According to the news and analytics outlet of Islamic World News the Syrian Army advanced on two main axis towards Deir Ezzor and its airport to break ISIS blockade.
The most important news of the military situation in these days of Syria and perhaps the whole region is the breaking of the three-year-old siege of the most strategic city of Deir Ezzor in the eastern desert of Syria , the diamond of Euphrates and the oil-richest province of Syria. Perhaps in the first place […]
