(7.11.2008) McConnell, who briefed Obama on intelligence matters after he became the Democratic presidential nominee, presided over yesterday‘s more substantive briefing — essentially the equivalent of the highly secret „President‘s Daily Brief.“ McConnell was joined by the CIA‘s Michael J. Morell, who heads the agency‘s analysis division. Morell was expected to remain in Chicago during the transition to give Obama daily updates.

In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.

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„The Israeli defense establishment believes that agreements have value only if they are based on reality. They have no value if the facts on the ground are opposite to the ones the agreement is based on,“ said the statement. „The Munich Agreements didn‘t prevent World War II and the Holocaust because their fundamental assumption – that Nazi Germany can be partner to any agreement – was false, and because world leaders at the time ignored clear statements made by Hitler and other Nazi leaders.“

(27.7.2016) “I’ve talked to the members of the Israeli government at the highest levels. I know who they want elected here. It’s not Hillary Clinton. It’s not Obama 3,” Giuliani told me in an interview at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

(13.5.2016) For nearly eight years, Republicans have fought tooth and nail against President Obama and his policies. We waged battles over debt, government spending, Obamacare and the Iran nuclear deal — an issue of paramount importance to me personally and to many others around the world.

We gained some victories, but on too many issues Obama achieved his goals, if not necessarily America’s goals. As Republicans, we know that getting a person in the White House with an “R” behind his name is the only way things will get better.

In America he‘s the biggest mega-donor. In Israel, he‘s the only one.

(9.4.2014) Sheldon Adelson ist Milliardär, bedingungsloser Unterstützer Israels und Freund von Ministerpräsident Netanjahu. Um sich politischen Einfluss zu sichern, hat er einen Weg: Er kauft israelische Medien.

Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Hassan Rouhani of Iran adopted a declaration of cooperation after their trilateral meeting

Urging party workers to gather in Rawalpindi on August 13, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Imran Khan announced to reach the federal capital on the Independence Day as part of its movement against corruption in the country.

In a statement, Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militant group, also said their men killed Bilal Kasi, the president of Baluchistan Bar Association, and then targeted the mourners who had gathered at the government-run Civil Hospital. The group has been behind several attacks in Pakistan in recent years. The claim could not be independently verified.

On August 7, 2016, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) launched its much-hyped “accountability movement” to initiate a nationwide protest against the alleged corrupt practices of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his family members, and his close associates

The point is, if the raison d’etre of the dalliance is the ‘containment’ of Iran, it is resource-sharing. An open relationship is needed to optimally develop security and military cooperation. The Custodian of Holy Places seems to think the Muslim world will learn to live with his country’s strategic cooperation with Israel.

Vladimir Putin may be on the cusp of a pivotal victory in Syria’s civil war that would make it much harder for the U.S. to achieve its stated goal of ousting Bashar al-Assad without a major military escalation.

Assad’s troops, backed by Russian air power, are bearing down on rebels entrenched in Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city before fighting erupted in 2011. Reclaiming Syria’s commercial capital would give Assad control over all major population centers and cement his hold on a contiguous swath of land from Turkey to Jordan that makes up almost half of the country.

“Russia will stick to its guns in Syria and show the whole world we are right,” Frants Klintsevich, deputy head of the defense committee in the upper house of parliament, said by phone from Moscow. Driving the last rebel groups out of Aleppo within a few months is now “quite realistic,” he said.

Acknowledging that Russia and Turkey have different stances on resolving the Syrian civil war, Karlov said that both leaders will take initial steps toward a similar disposition regarding the civil war. Underlining the importance of increasing cooperation between the two countries in the fight against DAESH, Karlov also said that extensive cooperation means swifter eradication of international terrorism.

(2014) Entscheidung zu Kompensationsforderungen des Irans von im Jahr 1979 an Israel gelieferten Erdöl ein weiterer Schlag für die israelische Regierung

President Rouhani will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev, the Azeri president, on Monday to discuss means of enhancing cooperation in the areas of commerce, energy, communications as well as transport and transit.