“When the jihadists advanced towards Mosul on 6th June 2014 their aim was just to take a neighborhood for a couple of hours. They did not expected that all the government apparatus in the city would collapsed like a house of cards“.
(by Nino Orto) Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi, responsible for Mosul’s security, knew the […]
The British Foreign Office considered Hosni Mubarak “straight” and “reluctant” during the difficult days after Sadat’s assasination.
(By Nino Orto)A BBC documentary, using secret diplomatic cables recently declassified, has revealed new and intriguing details of Mubarak’s political life during his first uncertain and crucial days as President of Egypt.
The assassination of President Anwar Sadat on 6 […]
“We are looking to Syria with concern because of the evolution of the conflict and the growing Iranian presence in the country during the last year,” says Avi Zeira, Head of Golan Heights Community”
(By Nino Orto)From the top of Mount Bental, in the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, the landscape below the hill […]
“Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Professor Uzi Rabi, in exclusive for Osservatorio Mashrek”
(By Nino Orto)Professor Uzi Rabi is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is regularly invited by the Israeli Knesset […]
