The US has started constructing a new military base in the Northeast of Syria. The base is located in the town of Ain Diwar, right across to the Turkish town of Cizre and also close to the Iraqi-Syrian border. The US forces have deployed military reinforcements including 60 armored vehicles and army-engineering vehicles to carry out excavation, leveling, and construction ...
Yaşar Yakış, born 1938, is a founding member of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party. Yakış has been Minister for Foreign Affairs 2002 – 2003 and Member of the Turkish Parliament between 2002 and 2011. Yakış entered the Foreign Ministry in 1962 and served different posts in Belgium, Nigeria and Syria as well as being part of the Turkish NATO ...
On February 28, the first anniversary of the installation of Community Governments was commemorated in one of the main states of Venezuela, Miranda. The governor of Miranda, Héctor Rodríguez, stressed that “Community Governments strengthen participatory democracy, as well as social policies” in Revolution, especially against the background of pandemic and an international US blockade that strongly affects the Venezuelan population. ...
By Nardine Ali / Cairo In February, Egypt launched an international bid round for the exploration of oil and natural gas in 24 blocks. The Egyptian authorities determined the according exploration field in respect to Turkish claims of Exclusive Economic Zone in the Mediterranean. This was interpreted in Ankara as a gesture and caused several declarations from the Foreign Minister, ...
Pope Francis made his first foreign trip since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic to Iraq, a country that has been hit with numerous terrorist attacks since Joe Biden took office. Iraq has been plagued by insecurity and crisis since the US-led invasion in 2003, which took millions of lives among its civilians and forced hundreds of thousands into exile. ...
A court in Ankara sentenced five people to lifelong prison over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov. The judgment pointed out that the killing of Karlov was “a provocative action against Turkish-Russian ties.” The court found Salih Yilmaz guilty of “ordering” Mevlut Mert Altintas to kill Karlov, sentencing Yilmaz to two life sentences. Sahin Sogut, deemed a ...
The “Arctic Ocean” or the “Arctic Sea” has turned into one of the major hegemonic conflict areas of the 21st century. The potentiality to connect approximately 75% of the world’s population due to the melting ice, and its rich seabed and living marine resources turns the region into a major arena of great power competition. China’s last year self-definition as ...
Turkey and Egypt are in the middle of a historic process. The two countries have the opportunity to change the equation in the region and especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, if the right steps are taken. Turkey has interpreted recent decisions of Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean as a move of goodwill, and Ankara has started calls to Cairo for ...
By Liu Xin, Correspondent of Beijing-based Global Times, exclusive for United World International Recently, the international community has witnessed a new round of hype in some Western countries on the topic of the Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. This time, the US and its Western allies are trying to label China’s actions as “genocide” – a severe accusation against ...
In this article we seek to make a contribution to the analysis of the Salvadoran political system within the framework of the Nayib Bukele government that began in 2019 and an apparent weakening of the historic Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Last February’s 28 legislative and municipal elections offer a privileged setting where the deployment of political actors, the ...