Khashoggi case: Vile murder, palace intrigue against crown prince or plot to torpedo US-Saudi ties?
It could be any or all these, since no one still knows what befell the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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Turkey
Post-war Syria destined to be sanctions-busting hub, the Russian-Iranian-Turkish summit decides
Shared mechanisms for beating US sanctions against Iran may be built into Syria’s massive post-war reconstruction program, DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources
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Three Russian warships steaming to Syria for Idlib operation. Hizballah opts out
Turkey sighted 3 Russian warships passing through the Bosporus on Thursday, Aug. 23, on their way to the Syrian port
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Will Erdogan let go if he loses this election?
If President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another six-year term in Turkey’s elections for president and parliament on Sunday, June 24
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Erdogan abuses Israel as a distraction from the plummeting Turkish lira
Turkish President called Israel a terrorist state on Tuesday, May 15, the day that the lira plunged to its lowest
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The US liquidates its two main Mid East air bases at Incirlik and Al-Udeid
Plans to speed up the transfer of the big US CENTCOM base in Qatar to Saudi Arabia were approved by
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Quarter million new Syrian refugees. Turks take Afrin city. Al Ghouta about to fall to Assad
The Turkish army and its surrogates took control on Sunday March 18 of the Kurdish Afrin City in northern Syria,
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Trump, Putin, Netanyahu try to back away from a violent clash in Syria
The US, Russian and Israeli leaders tried toning down their saber-rattling over the weekend – especially regarding Iran – even
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Putin calls summit to disentangle his allies’ conflicting Syrian agendas
The “wall” Trump has built in Syria presents Russia, Iran and Turkey with a high obstacle. The coming DEBKA Weekly
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Erdogan holds back on threatened conquest of Afrin, goes for Manjib
The Turkish president has told Trump and Putin he would not seize N. Syrian Afrin from the Kurds after insignificant
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