Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was a „historic day in the… Middle East“ and the fall of a „central link in Iran‘s axis of evil“.
Netanyahu said the events are „a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, Assad‘s main supporters. It has triggered a chain reaction across the Middle East, empowering those seeking to break free from this oppressive regime.“
He spoke on a visit to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
(December 6, 2024)
Bashar al-Assad’s family fled to Russia in the days after rebel forces launched a shock offensive that captured swathes of territory across northern Syria, it has been revealed.
It comes after a source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg News that Moscow had no plans to rescue the Syrian president, with Vladimir Putin said to be disgusted by reports of regime troops fleeing their positions. (…)
Egyptian and Jordanian officials are understood to have urged the Syrian president to leave the country and form a government-in-exile.
The offensive is led by Hayʼat Tahrir ash-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist opposition group backed by Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by the U.S.
On Friday, the rebels entered the old city of Aleppo and took over several key sites, including the historic citadel and the Umayyad Mosque, according to videos posted on social media.
He now has the political capital for negotiations that could set the country‘s next budget and allow him to continue to call the shots for at least another year in the multi-front regional war Israel is fighting.
„He feels he is winning,“ one of Netanyahu‘s aides told Axios.
The six-time prime minister will outlast President Biden, who has largely failed in his attempts to contain the conflict in the Middle East and rein in Netanyahu.
– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.
It’s hard to imagine Iran’s much-anticipated attack on Israel going any worse for the Islamic Republic.
Tehran has been displaying weakness for months. On January 3, Islamic State terrorists killed at least 84 people in two explosions near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, as they marked the fourth anniversary of his death in a US drone strike in Iraq four years earlier.
„We are all nervous,“ one House Democrat told Axios, citing concerns about the 81-year-old Biden‘s „ability to speak without blowing things.“
Another House Democrat told the outlet that Biden was likely to make mistakes during his speech.
The previous successful Ukrainian attack on the Crimean bridge happened in October 2022, when a truck carrying a disguised bomb blew up on it. The explosion killed three civilians, including the driver of the vehicle. Kiev never claimed credit for the blast, but earlier this month a Ukrainian deputy defense minister mentioned the date as Kiev’s “first strike on the Crimean bridge.”
„In the meantime, we are watching with interest how one of the symbols of the Putin regime once again failed to withstand the military load,“ he said.
Dehtiarenko said that „in one of his interviews, SBU Head Vasyl Maliuk stated that the norms of international law, analysis of the operational situation and the traditions of warfare make it possible to cut the enemy‘s logistical routes. The Crimean bridge today is one of the transport corridors of military supplies for the Russian army.“
Twitter’s website traffic is “tanking” according to the chief of internet services company Cloudflare, amid signs users are migrating to alternative platforms such as Threads, BlueSky and Mastodon.
Great reporting @HenryJFoy
Today the US National Missile Defence effort is explicitly limited to defence against the sort of attack that might be mounted by a rogue state such as North Korea: it is specifically forbidden to work on things which might be able to stop Russia’s vast ICBM force, to avoid panicking Vladimir Putin.
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„We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses. Based on your behaviour, we are responding by including helmets and batons for our safety,“ police said.
Zynische Schadenfreude vom Anfang bis zum Schluss. Autorin des Kommentars: Anja Kunz. Frauen können genauso bösartig sein wie Männer.
Nebenher haben die Wählerinnen und Wähler auch all diejenigen Lügen gestraft, die diese Bundestagswahl zu einer Richtungsentscheidung hochstilisieren wollten, manche sogar zur letzten Ausfahrt vor dem Weg in die Katastrophe.
GERMANY‘S leading newspapers were unable to resist mocking England after they lost on penalties to Italy in Sunday‘s Euro 2020 final.
The final decision about 19 July will be taken on Monday morning, based on modelling from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) about Covid cases and pressures on the NHS.
Mehrere Mitglieder haben beim NRW-Landesverband den Ausschluss von Sahra Wagenknecht beantragt, wie die Partei Die Linke dem WDR am Donnerstag bestätigte. Zuvor hatte der Spiegel berichtet.
Den Aufruf, nicht Linkspartei zu wählen, kann die Bundespartei so eigentlich nicht stehen lassen. Lafontaine riskiert den Bruch, mehr noch: Er sucht ihn. Auf die Frage, ob er denn im kommenden Jahr noch einmal für den saarländischen Landtag kandidieren werde, antwortet er ausweichend: „Da ringe ich noch mit mir.“
(17.02.2021)
Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend.
Evidence suggests the Oxford University vaccine – the main weapon in Britain‘s arsenal to combat the virus – does not stop people falling ill with the South African variant, which is feared to be spreading in the community already.
The teams led by the chief UK negotiator, David Frost, and his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, were expected to continue talks on Monday despite the European parliament’s notice that it would not vote on a deal if not secured by midnight on Sunday.