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The Middle East is reorganizing

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 27 April 2021

The Middle Eastern states, divided not by themselves but by the powers that colonised the region, are reorganising themselves according to their own logic. Of course these new alliances are still fragile, but the West will have to deal with (...)

The coup that didn’t happen in Jordan

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 13 April 2021

The aborted coup in Jordan has nothing to do with an internal rivalry within the royal family, even if it did find a leader. It is about opposition to Donald Trump’s questioning of the normalisation of Arab-Israeli relations and Joe Biden’s reactivation of a three-quarter century old conflict. (...)

Naval war between Israel and Iran

9 April 2021

For three years, the Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13), a top secret Israeli Special Forces unit, has been carrying out sabotage operations on Iranian ships bound for Syria. They mainly use landmines fastened to their target, but also the tactical nuclear weapon that they later used to destroy the port (...)

President Biden’s first military operation

26 February 2021

On 25 February 2121, President Joe Biden personally authorized the first military operation under his watch.
U.S. military forces have conducted an airstrike against a facility on the Syrian-Iraqi border. According to Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin III, it served as a base for Syrian (...)

Pentagon settles down in Syria

15 February 2021

According to the Voice of America, the Biden administration has decided to build a new military base in Northern occupied Syria [1].
On 6 February 2021, around fifty trucks arrived in Hassakah loaded with construction equipment.
During Trump’s tenure, the White House had thrice ordered the (...)

Philia Forum Statement

Athens (Greece) | 11 February 2021

We the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece, along with our counterparts of Bahrain, France, Saudi Arabia and the Minister of State for International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates,
Met in Athens, on February 11, 2021 to exchange views on issues of common interest (...)

Pentagon moves Israel under Central Command

18 January 2021

The Pentagon has five regional commands in charge of implementing imperial policy. The heads of these commands are dubbed "viceroys" after the British viceroys during British India [2].
CentCom (United States Command for the Greater Middle East) will henceforth also oversee Israel, which (...)

Sheikh Rohani stirs up trouble in the Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 5 January 2021

If Joe Biden is inducted as President of the United States, he could support the plans of the Iranian and Turkish presidents. He could support the creation of an Iranian regional empire in the Levant and a Turkish regional empire in the Caucasus, both at the expense of Russia. Thierry Meyssan (...)

Statement by foreign ministers of the Central Asian states and Russia on strategic areas of cooperation

15 October 2020

We, the foreign ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, value the unique advantages of strategic partnership based on the agreements reached by the heads of our states and (...)

The end of the Oslo Accords

Israel and the Emirates sign the "Abraham Accords"

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 22 September 2020

The Israeli-Emirati treaty upsets the rhetoric about the Middle East and makes possible an Arab-Israeli peace. It interrupts Israel’s inexorable nibbling of Arab territories and establishes diplomatic relations between Israel and the leader of the Arab world. If one is to examine without (...)

President Donald J. Trump is Promoting Peace and Stability in the Middle East

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 15 September 2020

“Today, nations across the region and throughout the world are joining together, united in their determination to build a better future.” President Donald J. Trump
SECURING HISTORIC AGREEMENTS: President Donald J. Trump hosted the official signing ceremony for the historic peace agreements (...)

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 15 September 2020

Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
The Government of the United Arab Emirates and the Government of the State of Israel (hereinafter, the “Parties”)
Aspiring to realize the vision of a Middle East region that is (...)

How the Big Two can establish peace in the Greater Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 June 2020

To make peace, it’s quite simple: you just have to stop making war with each other. But in the Greater Middle East, it is much more complicated, because there are a multitude of actors for whom a solution, whatever it may be, must satisfy conflicting claims. Under these conditions, no peace can (...)

Reshaping the Greater Middle East

How Washington intends to triumph

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 June 2020

During the quarter of Western lockdown, the map of the Middle East was profoundly transformed. Yemen has been divided into two separate countries, Israel is paralysed by two Prime Ministers who hate each other, Iran openly supports NATO in Iraq and Libya, Turkey occupies northern Syria, Saudi (...)

US and UAE joint military exercises

25 March 2020

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, UAE soldiers and 4,000 US troops joined up to carry out an exercise on 21 and 22 March on a military base in the UAE.
The al-Hamra training camp ("red camp") was especially built in 2015 for $ 78 million, in anticipation for an attack against Iran. It (...)

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