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Tag: Syria

Turkey, Russia, Qatar foreign ministers push for political resolution in Syria

12 March 2021 Online editor Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy, In the news

Turkey, Russia and Qatar are making a joint attempt to promote a political solution to Syria’s 10-year conflict. The foreign ministers of the three countries held talks in Doha on Thursday, 11 March 2021.

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First US military action under Biden targets militia in Syria

26 February 2021 Online editor In the news

In the first military action authorised by US President Joe Biden, the United States carried out air strikes against facilities used by “Iranian-backed militia” in eastern Syria on Thursday, 25 February 2021 (early on Friday Middle Eastern time).

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Immanent conflict without immanent war: Local actors and foreign powers are scrabbling for influence in Iraq and Syria (DIIS)

26 February 2020 Online editor Analysis and comment, Strategy, defence and security

From the Danish Institute for International Studies, a useful illustrated description of the currently fragmented Iraqi and Syrian states with the presence of multiple militias backed by foreign actors. Fertile ground for the return of the Islamic State?

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AUKUS

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses?
    16 August 2024
  • Three compelling reasons to exit ANZUS
    15 May 2024
  • Australia’s AUKUS Tributes
    26 March 2024

Featured

Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’?

27 September 2023

ISRAEL

  • Ethics-free realism explains, but shouldn’t justify, Western responses to Gaza
    28 January 2024
  • Western leaders must acknowledge Israel’s rights are not untrammelled
    17 November 2023
  • ‘Shared values’ on show in Jerusalem
    7 February 2023

The UKRAINE Archive

  • Trump’s quick deal with Putin could reshape the global order
    19 September 2024
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable
    20 June 2024
  • Postwar Ukraine will pose the hardest problems
    13 March 2023
  • Tanks for Ukraine won’t bring war-ending negotiations any closer
    27 January 2023
  • After Ukraine a fractured and unravelling global order will confront governments
    10 May 2022
  • Ethics and war: the Ukrainian tragedy
    2 May 2022
  • US National Security and Ukraine: What’s the connection?
    19 January 2020

Most read this week

  • Will America use the AUKUS ‘get-out’ clauses? 16 August 2024
  • Trump’s pre-modern approach to Sovereignty must be resisted 25 February 2025
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023
  • The aimlessness of the G7 on Ukraine only delays the inevitable 20 June 2024

Most read in the last year

  • Are we paying enough attention to Trump’s Gleichschaltung-like ‘Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’? 27 September 2023
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  • Republicans push for Mexican-American war: Don’t rule it out 30 August 2023
  • Could Australia find the courage to end its alliance with America? 23 June 2023

About Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

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