Iran withdrew all Revolutionary Guards from Syria on December 5, just days before Assad's regime collapsed. "From today, we are no longer responsible for you," Iranian commanders told Syrian officers. Thousands evacuated through Russian bases and border crossings.
Chiefs must overcome multiple hurdles to secure wild card berth.
Europe is funding, sometimes unknowingly from taxpayer coffers, organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and these organizations are advancing a subversive ideology aimed at changing the continent's face from within.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson has revealed a network of money changers operating out of Turkey and controlled by Hamas, made up of Gazan exiles who have been exploiting Turkish financial infrastructure to fund terrorism. “Documents have been uncovered that record only a small part of the financial transfers, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he said.
Under development banners, Turkey has assumed the role of a surrogate state: a base training thousands of Somali soldiers, an airport and port under long concessions controlling its oxygen lines, a national hospital bearing Erdogan’s name and a Turkish state bank - the first foreign bank in Somalia in half a century - granting Ankara a pipeline into governance. This is leverage, not philanthropy. Somalia receives protection and infrastructure; Turkey receives coastline, concessions, deniability and a launch corridor.
