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Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus Numan Kurtulmus talks to foreign media in Ankara in this file photo dated January 21, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkey Says Military Presence in Qatar to Remain

by Said Abdul Razzak | Jul 4, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara- Turkey has reiterated that its military presence in Qatar will remain, considering any linkage between that and the crisis with Doha an error and stressing that its military base in Qatar serves the region’s security and not only Qatar’s. Deputy Prime Minister...

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Men walk past damaged shops at a site hit by airstrikes in al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria November 17, 2016 © Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters

Russian Officials: Our Presence in Syria is Not Term-limited

by Taha Abed alWahed | Nov 22, 2016 | Middle East, World

Moscow- Russian officers continue to assert that their military presence in Syria was “not term-limited” – the reason why Moscow was currently working on developing its Hmeimim military base on the Syrian coast near Latakia. Meanwhile, the Russians have started...

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Russian Challenge in the Mediterranean

by Asharq Al-Awsat Taha Abdul Wahed, Michel Abu Najm, Abdul Sattar Hatita | Oct 23, 2016 | Country Brief

Moscow, Paris, Tripoli, Cairo – The Arab Spring and the developments that have followed it have highlighted a clear inclination in Moscow toward the dedication of Russia’s strategic and political presence in the Mediterranean, benefiting from the politic of...