International – Page 102

Syrie: réponse à un historien auto-proclamé

23 August 2016

Très présent médiatiquement sur le dossier syrien, Jean-Pierre Filiu a commenté dernièrement la bataille d’Alep en comparant la supposée passivité des démocraties occidentales à la non-intervention de ces mêmes chancelleries durant la guerre d’Espagne. Une fois de plus? Une fois de trop pour Richard Labévière […]

Erdogan en Russie : Les dessous d’une réconciliation

23 August 2016

La rencontre des présidents turc Recep Tayyeb Erdogan et russe Vladimir Poutine fait couler beaucoup d’encre depuis quelques semaines. Les analyses se multiplient, malgré la rareté des informations. Plusieurs hypothèses se juxtaposent pour tenter de cerner ce qui a pu se passer précisément entre les […]

French forces bombard ISIL as new fighting complicates Syria’s war

23 August 2016

French forces have bombarded ISIL targets in the Syrian city of Raqqa, apparently destroying a heavy weapons storage and maintenance centre. It comes as the five year civil war becomes even more complicated, with fighting elsewhere threatening to open up a new front. Syrian rebels […]

Arms sales to Saudi ‘illicit’ due to civilian deaths in Yemen: campaigners

23 August 2016

A group that campaigns for stricter arms sales controls said on Monday that Western powers were breaking international law by selling vast amounts of weapons to Saudi Arabia that are being used to hit civilians in Yemen. The Control Arms Coalition said Britain, France and […]

As refugees flood into the country, Germany experiments with new urban-planning strategies

23 August 2016

Since August of 2015, Germany has become home to more than 1.1 million refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. This influx has German architects and urban planners asking the question: “Do we have a refugee crisis on our hands? Or a housing crisis combined with huge […]

Turkey Launches Artillery Barrage on Northern Syria

23 August 2016

The Turkish military has launched strikes against the terrorist group Daesh, also known as IS/Islamic State, as well as the Kurdish YPG in northern Syria, according to NTV. The howitzer shelling has struck Daesh targets near Jarablus and Kurdish YPG forces north of Manbij. Women […]

Islamic State arrests more than 100 civilians in Raqqa on suspicion of supporting ‘enemies’

23 August 2016

RAQQA – Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) has launched a campaign of arrests in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province, targeting civilians the group says have been involved in cooperating hostile parties, activists and eyewitnesses reported on Monday. The ISIS-linked Hisba police arrested over 100 […]

Syrian Kurds fight against Assad in increasingly complex war

23 August 2016

New fighting broke between Kurdish and regime forces in the northern Syrian city of Hasakeh.The fighting erupted after the official Syrian news agency SANA reported that a truce agreement had been reached between the Syrian army and Kurdish rebels of the YPG. But the situation […]

All Syria parties must commit to Aleppo aid truce, not just Russia: U.N.

23 August 2016

The United Nations is ready to deliver aid into Syria’s Aleppo, but needs commitments from all parties in the war – not just Russia – to abide by a 48-hour humanitarian truce, the U.N. aid chief, angered by lack of assistance to civilians, said on […]

Russian cruise missiles target Syria

23 August 2016

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired cruise missiles at targets near Aleppo on Friday, a further sign of Moscow’s broadening military effort in Syria days after it began to fly bombing missions from an airbase in Iran. Russian air power had […]

Libya’s jihadist challenge to last beyond Sirte defeat

23 August 2016

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – The grand ambitions scrawled on a wall near the Libyan city of Sirte’s Mediterranean sea front look fanciful now: “Islamic State’s naval port, the departure point for Rome, with God’s permission.” Beaten back by local forces over three months and by […]

Gorbatchev: les USA livrent la démocratie comme du café instantané

22 August 2016

L’ancien président de l’Union soviétique Mikhaïl Gorbatchev a un jour déclaré que les Etats-Unis imposaient la démocratie comme s’il s’agissait de café instantané. “A l’époque, j’ai dit aux Américains: vous essayez d’imposer la démocratie à des pays différents, mais vous la livrez comme si c’était […]