Turkey s offer to secure Kabul airport could prove to be a very risky business ANI | Updated: Jul 12, 2021 09:07 IST
By John Solomou
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 12 (ANI): The proposal made by Turkey s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to US President Joe Biden last month on the sidelines of a NATO summit that Turkey could undertake the security of the Hamid KarzaiInternational Airport in Kabul after NATO s withdrawal from Afghanistan could be a bargaining chip for improving Ankara s relationship with Washington but given the resurgence of the Taliban it could turn into a nightmare in the long run, unless it is handled very skillfully and with the utmost caution.
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 14 (ANI): Following the US policy shift to disengage from the Middle East region, which started under President Barack Obama and continued and accelerated under Donald Trump, China stepped in to fill the vacuum created and now plays a wider role in the region. China's growing influence in the Middle East is a real challenge to US dominance in the region.
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 7 (ANI): A few minutes before his mandate to form a government expired last Wednesday, Yair Lapid, the leader of Yesh Atid party, informed President Reuven Rivlin that he managed to cobble together a coalition government.
Cease-fire allows both Netanyahu and Hamas to declare a victory of sorts ANI | Updated: May 24, 2021 09:00 IST
By John Solomou
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 24 (ANI): Both Israel and Hamas have claimed success after the cease-fire in the 11-day conflict between them that left behind 243 Palestinians and 12 Israelis dead, as well as scores of wounded on both sides.
But despite the cease-fire, the core issues of the conflict remain unresolved and another cycle of violence could start once again in East Jerusalem.
The question arises: So many people lost their lives just so that Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the one hand, and the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza, on the other, may achieve their self-serving aims?
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