Libyan national army under Khalifa Haftar started offensive in the south of Tripoli and approaches the center of the capital. The government announced that Haftar’s operation involves foreign aviation without giving further details.
Washington and Ankara have begun talking to each other with ultimatum terms.
Tensions have flared up again in Gaza recently. Israel has blocked the border with Gaza and is deploying army. Earlier Israel, despite the ceasefire reached by the Egyptian mediation, struck the military infrastructure of the Hamas movement, dominant in the Gaza Strip. According to reports from Israel, this is retaliation to the missile launch from the Gaza Strip to the Jewish state, injuring seven...
US president Donald Trump made his next controversial Twitter post, “After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability.”
Interestingly, Iran joined this operation: this is the first Turkish-Iranian joint operation against the PKK. Turkey announced a joint operation with Iran against the PKK on the eve of the general elections in June 2018, but Iran did not join it.
During prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s official visit to Iran high ranking talks took place with the Iranian authorities including the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, the latter not always willing to receive foreign leaders.
The United Arab Emirates is going to recognize the Armenian genocide, «al-Akhbar» daily reports referring to its sources in the UAE diplomatic circles.
The sanctions imposed by the US led to the significant depreciation of the Turkish lira, deepening the economic crisis in the country. The preservation of such a situation could have caused social and economic disturbances in the country.
In general, such a reaction by the United States would be considered as normal, but not in Saudi Arabia case. The gross violations of human rights in this Arab kingdom are not a new one, and the international community always used to circumvent this issue.
It should be noted that, although the plane was shot down by Syrian air defense, Moscow blamed Israel for this, which, according to the Russian side, did not warn about air strikes on Syria at the time, as a result of which the IL-20 could not move to a safe zone. In addition, in Moscow they say that Israeli fighters hid behind the Russian plane, which was the reason for the crash of the latter.
The adoption of such a law naturally cannot but cause serious dissatisfaction among the Arabs of Israel who constitute 20% of the 8 million population of the country, as well as among the Palestinian Authorities.
The lack of clarity about Pashinyan's participation in the NATO summit is most likely due to this circumstance: Yerevan does not have guarantees yet that the document adopted at the end of the summit will not contain anything that contradicts the interests of Armenia.
The new name should be approved at a referendum in Macedonia, which is scheduled for autumn. After this, the Greek and Macedonian parliaments must ratify the agreement.
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