On November 4, participants in the fifth round of inter-Libyan dialogue in the framework of the Joint Military Committee “5+5” in Ghadames agreed on a number of steps to normalize the situation in this country, including the withdrawal of mercenaries, the return of party formations to their bases and the deployment of international observers in the strategically important areas of ...
The Head of the Pentagon Mark Esper recently named Russia and China as the main strategic rivals of the United States. The US Defense Secretary repeated this claim during his speech at the Rand Corporation. “Today, in this era of great power competition, the Department of Defense has prioritized China then Russia, as our top strategic competitors. These revisionist powers ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the Syrian capital for the first time since 2012 and the regional messages he conveyed continue to be discussed. Yury Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, was also present in the delegation, marking the first official visit by Lavrov to Damascus after 8 years. The Russian delegation’s visit on September 7 took place ...
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 ...
UWIdata has obtained the details of the meeting between Archbishop Elpidophoros of America (Ioannis Lambriniadis) of the Greek Orthodox (Fener) Patriarchate of Istanbul, and US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on July 23, 2020, one day before the opening of the Hagia Sophia Mosque. Elpidophoros, who is a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, was inducted as ...
The 5th Fleet, which Soviet Russia first established in the Mediterranean in 1963-64, is now challenging the 6th Fleet of the US in the waters of the Mediterranean. The pessimistic attitudes towards Turkish-Russian friendship in Syria, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean today are based on the idea that Russia is moving toward warm waters. In fact, the issue of navigating ...
Two weeks ago, the first virtual summit of the Astana Process hosted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was held. Prior to the meeting, the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Russia and Iran have already held another virtual summit to reach a draft version of the joint statement. The summit ended by releasing a joint statement of 14 articles by the ...
On July 14, a joint Turkish-Russian patrol along the M4 highway was hit by an explosion in the Syrian province of Idlib, damaging a Russian APC-82 and a Turkish Kirpi armoured vehicle. The attack took place near Arihalocality in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. It was later discovered that an improvisedexplosive device was detonated along the convoy’s ...
Erdogan, Putin, Rouhani negotiations The Presidents of Turkey, Russia and Iran held a trilateral virtual summit on Syria. As a result of video negotiations, the leaders of the states – Recep Tayyip Erdogan Vladimir Putin, and Hassan Rouhani – adopted a joint resolution. During the video call, the leaders discussed humanitarian, economic and security issues. The leaders paid special attention ...
The World Anti-Imperialist Youth Union (WAYU) is an international youth platform established by 23 youth organizations from 12 countries in Istanbul on 29th October 2014. It aims to unite all the youth of the world under the same roof of anti-imperialism regardless of any differences. The below statement is the joint youth declaration on the new world after COVID-19 pandemic, ...