US Combat Troops to Begin Withdrawing from Iraq in October: MP

MENA WATCH: BIDEN LEAVING NOW IRAQ & SYRIA / EUROPE IT’S UP TO YOU

6.9.2021 ERBIL — The United States will begin withdrawing its combat forces from Iraq by the beginning of October this year, and Iraqi parliament member said.

US President Joe Biden had announce in July, after a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the end of the US combat mission in Iraq.

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MENA WATCH: BIDEN CANELS BRUSSELS EU / U.S., UK to Help Australia Acquire Nuclear-Powered Submarines

Heralding the beginning of a new security alliance, the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States jointly announced (Nikkei) that Washington and London will help Canberra build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and acquire other advanced technologies.

The partnership, dubbed AUKUS, is a major boost to Australia’s military capabilities (NYT) in the Indo-Pacific. It drew pushback from China (SCMP), which called for the countries to “shake off their Cold War mentality,” and from France, which had been in talks with Australia about providing it with submarines. The European Union (EU) is set to publish (Reuters) its Indo-Pacific strategy today.
Analysis
“Australia cannot have this capability while assuming that it does not come with heightened expectations that Australia will take America’s side in any dispute with China,” the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen writes for the Interpreter.

“Instead of inviting the U.K. into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which comprises the U.S., Japan, India and Australia, the [Joe] Biden administration chose to form a new grouping with perhaps more flexibility to expand defense cooperation by excluding Japan, which has constitutional restraints, and India, which has a policy of strategic autonomy,” Nikkei’s Ken Moriyasu writes.

 

MENA WATCH: Atom-U-Boote für Down Under -Australien, USA & UK bilden Bündnis gegen China/ EU NICHT BETEILIGT !
NZZ 16.9.2021 – Das ist passiert: Der australische Premierminister Scott Morrison hat gemeinsam mit dem britischen Premierminister Boris Johnson und dem amerikanischen Präsidenten Joe Biden die Gründung eines Bündnisses verkündet. Biden machte klar, um was es den Vereinigten Staaten mit dem Bündnis geht: «Die Zukunft unserer Nationen, und der ganzen Welt hängt von einer freien und offenen indopazifischen Region ab.» Die Initiative sei ein «historischer Schritt» für die Partner. In einem ersten Schritt werden die Vereinigten Staaten ihre sorgfältig geheim gehaltene Technologie für nuklear betriebene U-Boote mit Australien teilen.

 

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MENA WATCH : DIE MOST RADICAL FEMINIST PRO RED CHINA

16.9.2021-New Zealand will not lift a decades-long ban on nuclear-powered vessels entering its waters in the wake of key ally Australia’s decision to develop a nuclear submarine fleet, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says

Kyle Orton

16.9.2021

On its own, this could be passed over as just one of #New_Zealand‘s eccentricities, but under this government in particular the pattern of unwillingness to confront #China – or worse to actually abet Peking, as during the economic warfare against #Australia – is pretty consistent

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 MENA WATCH : PAY FOR AFGHANISTAN / PAY FOR SYRIA!

Aron Lund 16.9.2021

UN aid boss Martin Griffiths on Syria: “I think I’m right in saying that early recovery assistance is about 10 per cent of the overall Humanitarian Response Plan, and this needs to be increased if the essential access to basic services is to be met.” 

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Briefing to the…

English News and Press Release on Syrian Arab Republic and 2 other countries about Education, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 15 Sep 2021 by OCHA

reliefweb.int

 

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MENA WATCH: BIDEN TOPS TRUMP! 

Liz Sly 16.9.2021

Biden infuriated European allies by not consulting them on Afghanistan. Now he’s enraged France by not consulting it on the US-Australia-UK defense pact that cuts France out

‘Stab in the back’: France slams Australia, US over move to ditch €50B submarine deal

‘We had established a trusting relationship with Australia, and this trust was betrayed,’ Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says.

politico.eu

 

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MENA WATCH : BYE BYE PKK/SDF FORCES IN NORTH SYRIA (LAST CHAPTER)

OIR Spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto 

16.9.2021 – Our #SDF partners w/the support of  @Coalition

continue to secure NE Syria & clear pockets of terrorists who are trying & failing to exploit the area to maintain a foothold. We are dedicated to the continued work w/the SDF to deny Daesh any chance of resurgence. #StrongerTogether

 

Farhad Shami

We are proud of what we and the international coalition @OIRSpox have achieved during first half of this month in arresting more ISIS terrorists in NE Syria, prevent their terrorist activity. next steps will be more decisive to rid the region, the world of remnants of terrorism .

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MENA WATCH : JENNIFER CAFARELLA – AFGHANISTAN

 

16.9.2021 Anyone who’s been deep in the weeds on the Iraq +Afghanistan wars and then read Woodward’s distorted, DC-centric versions of those wars, will recognize this—the facts right, some of them new and interesting, but the context and analysis all wrong

A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he’d been threatened in an email by a “senior…

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MENA WATCH:  After Israel allowed Morocco the West Sahara (POLISARIO)

Aron Lund 16.9.2021

Perhaps a quid pro quo for Biden keeping Trump’s recognition of Western Sahara as Moroccan soil? Or, perhapsier, preparation for coming feuds with/within EU? (Court of Justice ruling expected Sep. 29.) Whatever it is, clearly no genuine interest in restarting talks at this point.

After stalling for half a year, Morocco greenlights former Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura’s appointment as UN mediator in the Western Sahara conflict. https://rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20210916-le-maroc-soutient-de-mistura-comme-nouvel-émissaire-de-l-onu-pour-le-sahara-occidental

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ill Iran’s Position Toughen With New Nuclear Negotiators?

MENA WATCH INTEL : Iran International English

16.9.2021- Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s longtime nuclear negotiator is gone but it is not clear who will replace him. The man who is now deputy foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani has been an opponent of #JCPOA. No one is certain if this change #Iran‘s position.

Will Iran’s Position Toughen With New Nuclear Negotiators?

Iranian media and analysts evaluate the appointment of a new deputy foreign minister in relation to nuclear negotiations. Will Iran’s position get tougher?

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