Syrians sail for Cyprus in the thousands as island seeks to stem the tide
The number of Syrians making treacherous sea crossings to Cyprus has spiked, prompting the island nation to announce it will no longer process Syrian asylum ...
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The number of Syrians making treacherous sea crossings to Cyprus has spiked, prompting the island nation to announce it will no longer process Syrian asylum ...
During Moscow Format meeting, Iran proposed the formation of a regional contact group against the US
The Egyptian government is seeking to expand seawater desalination projects in the upcoming period, especially in coastal and border cities, by establishing 14 new plants.
The situation in Afghanistan remains bleak. In late April 2021, US President Joe Biden announced an apparent withdrawal from the Central Asian country. However, the facts on the ground indicate that America’s longest war has merely been downsized. 16,000 military contractors and more than 1,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan; aerial bombardments, drone strikes […]
The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia A Soviet “Vietnam” By far the most influe...