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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 (...)

First NATO-ME War Overturns Regional Order

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2020

While Europeans and Arabs are being absorbed by the coronavirus, Anglo-Saxons are changing the world order. Under US command, the United Kingdom took control of the Red Sea entrance; the United Arab Emirates turned on Saudi Arabia and inflicted a bitter defeat on South Yemen, while the Houthis (...)

Geopolitics

Which target after Syria?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 10 March 2020

Events in the "Broader Middle East" since 2001 have followed a relentless logic. The current question is whether the time has come for a new war in Turkey or Saudi Arabia. The answer depends in particular on the resumption of hostilities in Libya. It is in this context that the Additional (...)

"NATO Go Home!"

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 18 February 2020

For two decades, US troops have been imposing their law on the broader Middle East. Entire countries are now without a state to defend them. Populations have been subjected to the dictatorship of the Islamists. Mass murders have been committed. There have been famines as well. President Donald (...)

NATO to deploy troops in Greater Middle East

14 February 2020

Ultimately, it looks as though NATO will take over in the Arab world after the withdrawal of CentCom (US Central Command in the Middle East). Germany could play a leadership role in the Alliance.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hopes to:
1. deploy the Alliance in Tunisia and make the war (...)

Turkey and Russia Joint Declaration

by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin

Istanbul (Turkey) | 8 January 2020

BILATERAL
We, the Presidents of Turkey and Russia, have been developing constructive bilateral relations in a wide spectrum of areas on the basis of mutual respect. Today’s inauguration of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline, which we are realizing here in Istanbul, is a concrete example of (...)

Whole of Middle East and US on high alert

3 January 2020

General Qasem Soleimani (photo), commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s élite Al-Quods force, was assassinated by the United States at Baghdad airport (Iraq) on 3 January 2020. He was considered to be the top Special Forces soldier in the world.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chairman of (...)

The Future of the Levant

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 October 2019

We can’t resist publishing Thierry Meyssan’s editorial in al-Watan, Syria’s leading daily newspaper. He describes the United States/Russia agreement for the Levant.

Germany seeks military involvement in the Greater Middle East

28 October 2019

The German delegation arrives in Cairo
The Munich Security Conference is holding two seminars between Arab and German leaders, the first on 25-26 October in Cairo and the second on 27-28 October in Doha.
Egypt - alongside Syria and Saudi Arabia - is engaged against the Muslim Brotherhood, (...)

The modified face of the Levant

27 October 2019

In Lebanon, banks have been closed for 10 days. Cash dispensers are empty. A wave of protests is sweeping the country. All roads are blocked. One can only take back roads, if known. Beirut airport is inaccessible.
In Iraq, protests have resumed, particularly in Shia areas. In the past month, (...)

All that is Hidden from you About Turkish operation "Source of Peace" (1/3)

The genealogy of the Kurdish question

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 18 October 2019

The unanimous international community multiplies its condemnation of the military offensive in Rojava and watches helplessly as tens of thousands of Kurds flee, pursued by the Turkish army. However, no one intervenes, considering that a massacre may be the only possible way to restore peace, (...)

Will Donald Trump Bring Peace?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 3 September 2019

After two and a half years in power, President Donald Trump is about to impose his views on the Pentagon. The one who put an end to Daesh’s "Sunnistan" plan is to end the Rumsfeld / Cebrowski doctrine of destroying state structures in the wider Middle East. If it succeeds, peace will return to (...)

The successes of Russian diplomacy in the Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 20 August 2019

The political changes which have been transforming the Middle East for the last two months are not the result of the destruction of any of the protagonists, but the evolution of the Iranian, Turkish and Emirati points of view. Where the military might of the United States has failed, the (...)

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