Reason to smile: Despite his crimes, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is now being welcomed back into the Arab fold (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The road back to Damascus
“Stop the killing machine!” demanded Saudi King Abdullah...
Permits for Palestinian workers in Israel are set to increase (Credit: Abu Adel/ Shutterstock)
Behind the News – December 2021
Rocket and Terror No rockets have been fired...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his intelligence chief Hakan Fidan meet with Hamas leadership, including US Specially Designated Global Terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, in Turkey, August 2020 (credit: Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
Turkish conference underlines growing role of Ankara as key driver of global Islamist extremism
The Turkish government’s decision to co-sponsor an “academic conference” in...
A new wave of unrest in Iran: Gathering and protest rally outside Amir Kabir University in Teheran last year (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Iranian unrest/ Syria’s narco-dictatorship
Update from AIJAC   07/21 #04   This...
Several members of the Al-Tajamu network at a 2017 demonstration in Sydney, including Jay Tharappel, Hanadi Assoud, Hussein Dirani and Tim Anderson. (Source: Hanadi Assoud’s Facebook feed)
Teheran’s friends in Australia
In the previous edition of the AIR, I...
Israeli F-15 strike fighter: Reported strikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria
Behind the News – May 2021
Rocket and Terror Report Two rockets launched from...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, March 20, 2021. (Screenshot/WAFA)
Behind the News – April 2021
  Rocket and Terror Report The first rocket...
A scene from Israel’s efforts to provide medical care for Syrians along the Golan border (Credit: Shutterstock)
Essay: Ten Years of Savagery
  Syria’s demise and Israel’s response   The...
Gas for Gaza? An Israeli natural gas platform in the Mediterranean (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Behind the News – March 2021
  Rocket and Terror Report No rockets have...
Turkey Greece
Essay: Ankara Away
Assessing the Turkish challenge to Israel   “Iranian...
UNHRC
As Australia leaves UNHRC, human rights abusers step up
With Australia’s three year term on the UN...
Putin1609
Russia’s quest to make itself indispensable in the Middle East
Originally published in The Strategist (ASPI) – 16...
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