(2024-12-31). Declassified files show UK anger at Chirac over Iraq. newarab.com 
Newly-declassified UK government documents published Tuesday reveal the frustrations of then-prime minister Tony Blair and his government with French leader Jacques Chirac for blocking the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. | Minutes of an emergency cabinet meeting on 17 March, 2003 ⚪ a week after Chirac said he would veto any resolution approving military action ⚪ showed UK ministers agreed "the French attitude had undermined the mechanism of the UN to enforce the will of the international community." | "We had tried our utmost" but the French "were not prepared to accept that if President Saddam Hussein of I…
(2024-12-31). Lebanon: Protesters urge release of Egyptian opposition activist. newarab.com 
Several activists in Lebanon have demonstrated outside Beirut's Courts of Justice urging The opposition activist and prominent figure of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution was arrested at the Masnaa border crossing with Lebanon, following coordination between Lebanese and Egyptian authorities. | Al-Qarad…
(2024-12-30). Iraq's Sudani walks a tightrope after Syria's fall. strategic-culture.su