Turkey reneges on NATO’s Baltic defense plan to extort US concessions in Syria
In another anti-US provocation, President Recep Erdogan ordered the Turkish ambassador to NATO to withhold signature on Wednesday, Nov. 27,
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Abdullah cuts down Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, while reorienting his policy on détente with Turkey, Syria, Qatar
Jordan’s King Abdullah notified Israel on Sunday, Oct. 21, that he will not renew two annexes of the peace treaty
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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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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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