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Champions League Is Back With Manchester City Unlikely Favourites


The Champions League is back this coming week, and easily the most striking aspect of the competition before the group stages commence is that Manchester City are the favourites to win it. With all respect to Pep Guardiola’s expensively assembled side, this seems odd. https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

Time Limit of Few Weeks to Dissolve HTS in Syria’s Idlib


Pressure exerted by western countries and Turkey on Russia seems to have deferred a looming offensive by the Moscow-backed Syrian regime on the province of Idlib and allowed Ankara to dissolve Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham HTS within weeks.

Turkey fears that a wide-range regime attack on Idlib, which has a population of 3 million people, could cause a new wave of exodus towards its territories.

Media reports said Friday that Ankara has sent reinforcements, especially armored vehicles, to the border with Syria and to observations points it has lately established in the north of the country.

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لماذا يرفض الأردن الكونفدرالية مع الفلسطينيين؟


أثار الحديث عن مشروع الكونفدرالية بين الأردن وفلسطين حالة قلق للأردن الرسمي والشعبي، مما دعا الملك عبد الله الثاني لقطع الطريق أمام هذه المشاريع للتساؤل بصيغة استنكارية: “كونفدرالية مع من؟!”.

لماذا يرفض الأردن الكونفدرالية مع الفلسطينيين؟


أثار الحديث عن مشروع الكونفدرالية بين الأردن وفلسطين حالة قلق للأردن الرسمي والشعبي، مما دعا الملك عبد الله الثاني لقطع الطريق أمام هذه المشاريع للتساؤل بصيغة استنكارية: “كونفدرالية مع من؟!”.

Iraq’s Sadr Hints at ‘Million Man Day of Rage’


Iraq’s political crisis is set to grow after the blocs that have won most seats in the parliament failed to create the largest legislative bloc capable of forming a new government.

The inaugural session of the 329-seat chamber would be chaired by its oldest member, President Fuad Massum said this week in a decree calling for the sitting to take place on September 3. https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

Facebook Is Making the US a Political Dystopia


US elections are threatening to become the “World Cup of information warfare, in which US adversaries and allies battle to impose their various interests on the American electorate.” That powerful statement comes from a knowledgeable source: Facebook’s former Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, who left the company this month.

Stamos suggested ways to avoid this dystopian future in a post for the blog Lawfare. He confessed that his “personal responsibility for the failures of 2016 continues to weigh” on him. https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

David Brooks, James Maddison Prove Persistence Does Finally Pay Off


For David Brooks, there was the toughening-up experience of the midweek under-19 reserve league against Staveley Miners Welfare and Handsworth Parramore and a loan stint at Halifax Town, while James Maddison earned his stripes in League One with Coventry City after being thrust in at the deep end at 17.

Like Harry Maguire and Kyle Walker, among others, before them, both have grafted and excelled in the lower reaches of the game, with bumps along the way, but are flying the Football League flag as they flourish in England’s top tier.

It is early days but Brooks and Maddison appear to have https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

‘Do Not Set the Trap of the Past for Me’


“Let us not talk about memories. Do not set a trap for me. I will not fall for it. I respect your love for your profession, but we have different calculations – rather conflicting ones. You want an interesting discussion to publish it with an alluring headline in Asharq Al-Awsat and you have the right to try. It is the professional journalist’s right to relentlessly try to fish for stories and I, unfortunately, have many of them.

“I have read some of your interviews, including those with men I worked with in the army, party and state. https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

Houthis Exerting Pressure to Control Yemen’s General People’s Congress


The Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen have demanded from their loyalists in the General People’s Congress (GPC) in Sanaa to pressure a prominent member of the party to step down from his position as head of its parliamentary bloc.

The Houthis are seeking the ouster of Sultan al-Burkani and several other members of the GPC in order to complete their takeover of the party that used to be headed by late former President Ali Abdullah Saleh until his assassination by the militias in December.

The Houthis are seeking complete control of the GPC to transform it into a political arm that can https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx

Donald Trump And The Carl Schmitt Spectrum


Has Donald Trump been reading Carl Schmitt in secret? The thought came to mind the other day when the US president was concluding his two-day “working visit” to the United Kingdom with a series of impromptu statements before flying to Scotland to play golf. https://ift.tt/1p5TKH4 http://bit.ly/2DOz6Vx