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Legal ambiguity becomes the norm in Erdogan’s Turkey (Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor)

Turkish Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu gave a speech addressing Turkey's female mukhtars. Mukhtars are elected neighborhood administrators, and there are over 50,000 of them throughout...

Iraq’s elections weaken PKK in Sinjar (Mahmut Bozarslan, Al Monitor)

The ongoing power struggle between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP, the main political group ruling Iraqi Kurdistan) and armed Kurdish militants from Turkey over...

Bennett meets France’s Macron in Glasgow, discusses spyware flap (Rina Bassist, Al Monitor)

In Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met today with French President Emmanuel Macron. A statement issued by Bennett’s office...

Syrian jihadi group cracks down on last pocket of rivals in Idlib (Khaled al-Khateb, Al Monitor)

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, is trying to seize the last pockets of opposing jihadist organizations in the Jabal al-Turkman...

Iran presumed behind attack on US outpost in eastern Syria (Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor)

US officials believe that Iran “resourced and encouraged” an October 20 attack on a military outpost housing US forces in the eastern Syrian desert which involved drones carrying...

Turkish army coordinates with Syrian proxy forces ahead of possible military action (Khaled al-Khateb, Al Monitor)

The Turkish army continues to send military reinforcements to the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in northeastern Syria, amid ongoing Turkish threats against Kurdish forces in the area. Meanwhile, the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions are...

In troubled US-Turkey relations, F-16 deal seen as path for dialogue (Diego Cupolo)

Following several scheduling changes, US President Joe Biden and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome...

‘Chilling pattern’: Pakistani journalists ‘targeted’ by cyber law (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

At least 23 Pakistani journalists have been penalised under the country’s draconian cyber-crime law in the last two years, establishing a “chilling pattern” of...

COP26: More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030 (Al Jazeera)

More than 100 countries promised to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by the end of 2030, underpinned by $19bn in public...

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