On August 25, the US Secretary of State visited Sudan for the first time in 15 years. Mike Pompeo’s visit followed the landmark announcement that diplomatic relations had been established between the UAE and Israel. According to the State Department, Pompeo and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok discussed “positive developments in the Sudan-Israel relationship” in Khartoum. Given the fact that Sudan ...

The blast in the Beirut port left at least 200 people dead, 6,000 injured and 300,000 displaced. It came at a time when Lebanon was dealing with a financial crisis along with the coronavirus pandemic. Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that property damage from the explosion could cost more than $15 billion, according to the official Lebanese News Agency. Lebanon’s ...

China has surpassed the US in terms of its global positioning system, costing the US one of its major tools of world hegemony. GPS satellites, which are the key to theWashington’s worldwide military supremacy, are no longer unrivaled. The Global Positioning and Satellite System which has been developed by China is far superior to America’s. It is also free of ...

The situation in Belarus has remained extremely tense in recent weeks.  On August 23, a mass opposition rally took place in the center of the country’s capital Minsk. In the streets, the army ensured order. President Alexander Lukashenko appeared in public with an automatic rifle and promised to fight against Western intervention. What is happening in this former Soviet republic ...

Today is the 98th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz), which ended the Greek occupation in Anatolia and brought Turkey’s War of Independence to a final victory. In current times as tension between Turkey and Greece gains momentum in the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, the propaganda that the Turks committed ethnic cleansing against the Greeks ...

Interview with President Aoun’s ex-advisor Elie Hatem Elie Hatem is Barrister-at-Law at the Paris Bar Association and at the International Criminal Court of the Hague. He has been the advisor of current President Michel Aoun of Lebanon, during the exile of this latter in France. Dr. Elie Hatem was also the advisor of former Secretary General of the United Nations, ...

Turkey spent last week talking about the natural gas reserves found in the Black Sea This Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the Fatih Drilling Vessel, which has been on natural gas exploration activities in the Black Sea, had discovered 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves at the Sakarya Gas Field. “GOOD NEWS” Speaking at an opening ...

Mali In Mali, a coup d’état involving the military took place, during which President Ibrahim Keita was deposed, as was Prime Minister Boubou Cissé. The military announced a three-year transition period to form a civilian government. According to an ECOWAS report from August 23, the State is now headed by a representative of the armed forces and the Government will ...

The putschists who conducted a military coup in Mali, where political crises have continued since May, forced President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign, announcing that the elections would be held in the most reasonable time frame possible. The Malian Air Force deputy chief of staff, Ismail Wague, who appeared on the state television ORTM with a group of soldiers, read ...

President Erdogan, said that he “find(s) it difficult to understand Egypt” during his speech in which he announced that negotiations at the level of intelligence organizations with Egypt are still in effect. After Erdogan’s important statements, I called former Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Rakha Ahmed Hassan, whom I had the opportunity to meet with many times in Cairo, in order ...