Jacob Wirtschafter
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Palace Party Wins Morocco Vote, Islamists Return to Opposition - The Media Line (opens the original)
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Low turnout and youth discontent loom over Morocco’s next government as coalition talks begin Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won Wednesday’s parliamentary election with 97 of 395 seats, provisional results announced early Thursday showed, while the Islamist party it pushed from power five years ago surged back to lead the opposition. The Justice and Development Party (PJD) took 54 seats, up from 13 in 2021, under Abdelilah Benkirane, prime minister from 2011 to 2017, who return
A Mecca Pact Without a Playbook Puts India on Alert - The Media Line (opens the original)
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Kuwait invoked the UN Charter’s self-defense provision after Iranian attacks, while the Mecca alliance’s mutual-defense clause has not been publicly tested [ISTANBUL] The newly established Mecca Defense Alliance has put a strategic question before India: Will the collective-defense pact linking Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remain mainly political, or develop into an operational military arrangement? The three countries signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement on Aug. 7 and met in Istanbul o
Turkey’s Libya Pivot Forces Israel To Recalculate in the Eastern Mediterranean - The Media Line (opens the original)
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Ankara’s access to rival Libyan authorities could strengthen its disputed maritime claims and reshape regional energy planning [ISTANBUL] Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was received at Khalifa Haftar’s family compound in Benghazi on Aug. 12, becoming the first Turkish diplomat of his rank to be welcomed in eastern Libya in more than a decade and giving Ankara diplomatic access to both halves of the divided country. The visit drew scrutiny from Israeli officials and commentators tracking Tu
As Houthi Attacks Spread, Saudi Arabia Weighs a New Yemen Campaign - The Media Line (opens the original)
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For three years, Saudi Arabia has sought to contain the Houthis while avoiding a return to full-scale war. What happens next turns on what Riyadh decides, Mohammed Qubaty, a Yemeni political figure, told TML [ISTANBUL] Saudi Arabia is weighing whether to back a Yemeni ground campaign to retake the Red Sea coast from the Houthis, an offensive that would test forces Riyadh has spent seven months assembling out of rival Yemeni militias. Ballistic missiles hit the commercial vessel Tihama on Tuesday
5 Months Without Ships: What the Hormuz Closure Costs the Arab Side of the Strait - The Media Line (opens the original)
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Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain have no way to get their oil and gas out except through the Strait. An oil producer normally earns more when prices rise, not if it cannot ship [ISTANBUL] Gulf states that normally receive their food and household goods by sea have spent five months flying them in, and the cost is turning up in what their residents pay. The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow stretch of water at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Oman. Before the war, about a fifth of the world’s
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