WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TRUTH
On 15 February 2011, against the background of the so-called Arab Spring protests rocking much of the Middle East at the time, protesters descended on the Libyan city of Benghazi armed with stones and petrol bombs to protest the detention of a local activist. Clashes escalated, eventually engulfing the country in a foreign-backed civil war. …
Monday marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of large-scale violent protests against long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In March of 2011, NATO-led forces launched an aerial operation in support of rebel forces, allowing them to achieve victory and, shortly after, plunging the country into the status of a failed state. …
The Syrian authorities will open three more checkpoints for residents to leave Idlib due to the economic situation there and the lack of medical assistance, Rear Adm. Vyacheslav Sytnik, the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said at a briefing on Monday. …
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior Iranian nuclear physicist and rocket scientist, was killed in a daylight attack on his convoy in late November outside Tehran. President Hassan Rouhani blamed Israel for the assassination, accusing Tel Aviv of trying to start a regional war in the twilight of the Trump presidency. …
It’s been over three weeks since Joe Biden’s 20 January inauguration, but the US president has yet to telephone Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel – America’s closest ally in the Middle East. The silence has prompted some Israeli politicians to try to capitalise on the situation ahead of next month’s legislative elections. …
