International Relations

How Britain funds the 'propaganda war' against Isis in Syria

Tue, 03/05/2016 - 15:36
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Wed, 04/05/2016

Ian Cobain, Alice Ross, Rob Evans and Mona Mahmood
The British government is waging information warfare in Syria by funding media operations for some rebel fighting groups, in the foreign front of what David Cameron has called “the propaganda war” against Islamic State.

Turkey’s anti-terror fight on three fronts

Tue, 03/05/2016 - 15:30
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Tue, 03/05/2016

MURAT YETKİN, hurriyetdailynews
Most countries, especially in the West, had no awareness of a terrorism threat on their territory until al-Qaeda’s shocking acts on Sept. 11, 2001. In a sense, 9/11 was the opening act of a wave of global guerilla warfare.

New round of talks on Greece – FYROM MoU takes place in Skopje

Tue, 03/05/2016 - 07:22
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Tue, 03/05/2016

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By Spiros Sideris

AthensIndependent Balkan News Agency

The latest round of talks on Confidence Building Measures between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was held in Skopje on April 25, 2016, based on the agreement reached between the two Foreign Ministers in Skopje on June 24, 2015.

Opinion: U.S., Europe must stand up to Erdogan

Mon, 02/05/2016 - 08:29
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Mon, 02/05/2016

By Frida Ghitis
(CNN)

Last Saturday night, the Dutch journalist Ebru Umar was reportedly resting at her vacation home in the Turkish resort town of Kusadasi when she heard a knock at the door. Umar, a fierce critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was about to become an example of the very practices against which she has been fulminating in her newspaper columns and her Twitter account.

Russia Rises From the Mat

Mon, 02/05/2016 - 08:20
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Mon, 02/05/2016


By Gilbert Doctorow

The U.S. government doesn’t want to admit that its heady “unipolar” days are over with Russia no longer the doormat of the 1990s, but Washington’s arrogance risks war, even nuclear annihilation, explains Gilbert Doctorow.

Syria’s peace talks begin to look like a cover for more war

Fri, 29/04/2016 - 15:59
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Fri, 29/04/2016

Ian Black Middle East editor
Bombs hitting hospitals, doctors and rescue workers killed, civilians starving, scores of dead and injured every day – the raw, bleeding statistics of Syria’s unending war are making a nonsense of an already fragile truce and destroying the slim hopes that peace talks can even carry on.

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