Turkey: How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Justice and Development Party (AKP) decisively…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Justice and Development Party (AKP) decisively…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- The adoption of wind and solar for electricity…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and…
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Turkey: How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Justice and Development Party (AKP) decisively lost its majority on Sunday, falling to only about 40 percent of the vote. The other…US view of Iraqi Army, before & after 2003 (Political Cartoon)
By Khalid Bendib | (Otherwords.org) | (Political Cartoon) Via Otherwords.orgUN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin
IMEMC | - - United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the…Israeli forces suppress protest over fraudulent purchase of West Bank church
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday suppressed a march protesting the recent purchase by Israeli setters of a church compound in the southern West Bank. The 38 dunam compound, known as…A Turkish Syriza? A radical democratic party and the new politics of the Mideast
By Omer Tekdemir | ( Your Middle East) Dr Omer Tekdemir analyzes a radical force in Turkish politics, which strives to protect democracy and represent all identities in society. Turkey’s forthcoming election…Weapons of the Wet: ISIL/ Daesh Cuts water to Iraqi Towns south of Ramadi
Ben Wedeman | (CNN Video) | - - "Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) ISIS has closed off a dam to the north of the Iraqi city of Ramadi -- seized by its forces last…Iraq needs another National Party: Tariq Aziz’s Baath Party Ruined the Country
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and former foreign minister of Iraq, is dead at 79. He died in prison in the custody…Will the fight against ISIL Bankrupt the Iraqi Gov’t? Is it hemorrhaging hundreds of billions?
By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) It's hard to get an accurate figure on how much Iraq's fight against the Islamic State group has cost. Local experts believe it's in the…Yemen: Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children
RT | (Video report) -- "Saudi-led coalition warplanes are continuing to pound Houthi targets in Yemen despite the rebels agreeing to UN-backed peace talks. The strikes have killed 58 people across the…Will Turkey’s Election end hopes for Turkish-Kurdish Rapprochement?
By Mustafa Gurbuz | (Informed Comment) | - - Whatever the election outcome on Sunday, prospects for Kurdish Peace Process are grim. Yet, regardless whether largely Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) passes…The Wrath of Netanyahu: What does Orange Telecom’s departure from Israel really Mean for BDS?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Stephane Richard, the CEO of the French telecommunnications company Orange embroiled himself in an international incident on Wednesday during a visit to Cairo,…The “Bomb Iran!” Lobby Gears Up for 2016
By Sina Toossi | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - "A tight-knit group of neocon dead-enders is pushing Iran to the forefront of the GOP's foreign policy agenda." In a recent…Caught in ISIL crossfire, 8.2 Million Iraqis In Need of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance
By Kanya D'Almeida | - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - As fighting drags on between Iraqi armed forces and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), millions of refugees caught between…On eve of Turkish Election, Leftist Women Turn backs on Pres. Erdogan in Twitter Campaign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In Turkey, left of center and Kurdish women took to Twitter on Wednesday to post pictures of themselves turning their backs to President…Syrian Refugees Blocked, Stranded in Jordan Desert
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Jordanian authorities have severely restricted informal border crossings in the eastern part of the country since late March, 2015, stranding hundreds of Syrians in…“Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us”: Macedonian elections and a Balkan “War on Terror”
By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | - Now it appears, thanks to EU mediation, there will be new national elections in Macedonia next April 2016. In one sense it is quite…Adelson Tabloid slams Obama for Listening to ‘Court Jews’ in Questioning Israel’s Credibility
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - President Barack Obama gave an interview on Israeli television on Tuesday in which he said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's position on rejecting a…Turkish Elections: Will the Country go Full Putin?
Gulay Icoz | (The Conversation)| - Following a month of fierce campaigning, the people of Turkey are preparing to head to the polling stations for the nation’s general election. This is set…Lawyer: Palestinian children facing torture in Israeli jails
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian children are being beaten and tortured in a "heinous" way by Israeli soldiers during interrogation, a Palestinian Authority lawyer has said. Hiba Masalha, a lawyer for the PA…US Air Force Absent as Daesh/ ISIL advances on North Aleppo against Sunni Rebels
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - Daesh (ISIL, ISIS), the murderous terrorist organization that has taken over the eastern desert of Syria and the western desert of Iraq, along with…