Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz The expanding US military presence in the Mideast reveals a number of central problems. The threats of ISIS lie dormant. The new discoveries of vast fields of natural gas and oil in the Mediterranean Levant basin (and elsewhere) are temptations for state…
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Abdennour Toumi, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Iran, Middle East, Opinion, Turkey40 year anniversary , Arab regimes , Iran , John Bolton , Mullahs , Republic of Iran , tensions , Turkey , United States Saudis identify suspects in murder of Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia officials announced that 11 suspect’s have been indicted by the Saudi Arabian prosecutor in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018 during a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The Public Prosecutor issued a statement following the two previous statements issued…
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Abdennour Toumi, Arab World, Features, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kurds, Middle East, Politics, Syria, TurkeyCenter for Global Governance at Shanghai University , China , Erdogan , Iraq , Professor Tugrul Keskin , Professor-Director , Syria , Turkey , Turkey Politics , Turkish politics Turkey’s Second Republic: Between Dialectic Realism and Societal Pragmatism President re-elect Erdoğan is realistic about the challenges he faces in leading his nation domestically and regionally. By Abdennour Toumi President re-elect Reçep Tayep Erdoğan has officially become the first elected President of the Second Republic of Turkey, and the 12th President of modern Turkey…
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Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East
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Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz The expanding US military presence in the Mideast reveals a number of central problems. The threats of ISIS lie dormant. The new discoveries of vast fields of natural gas and oil in the Mediterranean Levant basin (and elsewhere) are temptations for state…
Read more »