14 Years after 9/11, US, Israel Tempted to ally with Al-Qaeda in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Jabhat al-Nusra or Support Front is…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Jabhat al-Nusra or Support Front is…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 40 Democratic senators and two independent senators…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports, based on sources in Beirut,…
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14 Years after 9/11, US, Israel Tempted to ally with Al-Qaeda in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Jabhat al-Nusra or Support Front is one of the major rebel groups in Syria, holding extensive territory in the hinterland of cities…‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal
By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | - - Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are looking at what the most persuasive arguments…Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So
By Elisabeth Braw | (RFE/ RL) | - - A group of Iranian emigres and friends has announced an ambitious project to mount a crowdfunded airlift from troubled areas around the Mediterranean…Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ
Ma'an News | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its headquarters in New York by an overwhelming…Why Young Iraqis Are Risking Their Lives to Get to Europe
By Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Iraq's security crisis means that if you are “different”, you may be a threat to militias ruling the streets now. Would-be asylum…ISIL’s campaign may be going chemical – why no international outcry?
Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | - - Evidence is mounting that [so-called] Islamic State (IS) [group] is using chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria – and yet this egregious crime, which…Russia Ramping up Military Involvement in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports, based on sources in Beirut, that Russia is increasing its involvement in Syria, backing the military of beleaguered dictator Bashar al-Assad.…Kurds unite, from Conservatives to Far Left, in Fight against ISIL
By Karlos Zurutuza | (Inter Press Service) | - - KIRKUK, Iraq (IPS) - Reminders of the last occupants of camp K1 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk are only visible…Nearly all of Gaza’s Water ‘Undrinkable’
By Celine Hagbard - (IMEMC) | - - Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled…The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants
By Charlie Hoyle | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - The pink stone mansions hidden among the modern urban geography of Bethlehem --surrounded by an eight-meter high concrete wall and penned in…How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India
Sunil Sharma interviewed by Maryam Kamali | ( Iranian Medieval History) Sunil Sharma is the Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University’s Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature…The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?
by Youssef Cherif | (Middle East Center Blog, LSE Political Science) | - - Tunisia, regarded as the Arab ‘beacon of hope’ and the cliché of Arab secularism and liberalism, raises a…Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in which it finds that "Official data released…As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis
Euractiv.com | - - Thousands of exhausted refugees and asylum seekers received a hero's welcome Sunday (6 September) as they streamed into Western Europe. But Austria warned the emergency measures are only…1000s of Palestinians mourn as victim of Israeli Terrorist dies after losing her Toddler
Ma'an News Agency | - - Palestinian women cry during the funeral of Riham Dawabsha, on Sept. 7, 2015, at a cemetery in the West Bank village of Duma. (AFP/Thomas Coex) NABLUS…Pope Francis’ call to host Refugees contrasts w/ anti-Immigrant US “Religious Right”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Not all American Christian leaders have covered themselves in glory when it comes to the issue of Syrian refugees being accepted by the…UN: al-Assad, ISIL, al-Qaeda committing Mass Atrocities, Endangering Int’l Security
UN News Centre | ( Office of the High Commission for Human Rights) - - Mass atrocities by Government forces and non-State armed groups continue to take place in Syria, causing immeasurable…American Workers need a Raise, & the Iran Deal, and Peace
By Michael Eisenscher | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | We’ll never rebuild this country if we keep wasting money on war. This Labor Day, like others before it, finds American workers squeezed…Netanyahu: Israel Not To Be ‘Submerged’ by Syrian Refugees
By IMEMC News | - - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, he would not allow Israel to be "submerged" by refugees after calls for Israel to take in those…Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees
By Tim Hatton | (The Conversation) | - - Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment. The…