Despite Syria Cease Fire, Belligerents Plot military Victory
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the announcement at Munich of a…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the announcement at Munich of a…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Both the Middle East conflicts and the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Tom Friedman of the New York Times…
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Muslims in Europe: A Crisis of Liberalism, not a Clash of Civilizations
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ISLAMiCommentary | - - Are Muslims embraced as part of the mosaic of Europe? Or,…Russia Says World in ‘New Cold War’ over Syria
TeleSur | - - "Sometimes I wonder if it's 2016 or if we live in 1962," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the Munich Security Conference, Saturday. The world has sunk into a “new…European Parliament demands immediate end to Israel Squatting, Home Demolitions, in Palestine
By IMEMC | - - The European Parliament (EP’s) Delegation for relations with Palestine, expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation on the ground, calling for an immediate stop to Israeli expansion of…Despite Syria Cease Fire, Belligerents Plot military Victory
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the announcement at Munich of a cessation of hostilities in Syria, to be implemented in the next week or so, all the…Despite Risks, Egypt’s Cartoonists Take on increasingly Authoritarian Regime of al-Sisi
By Mohamed Hassan | ( Global Voices ) | - - Cartoonist Islam Gawish. Photograph from his Facebook page. Photograph by Mostafa Darwish. Less than two weeks after the fifth anniversary of…The Costs That Come With Russia’s Gains In Syria
Charles Recknagel | ( RFE/RL | - - With Russia's monthslong air campaign in Syria now focused on a key rebel stronghold, Moscow can claim success in putting its stamp on the…Israel: Former official Labeled Traitor for backing Vets Denouncing Occupation
By IMEMC | - - Former Israeli FM Director Vilified for Support of "Breaking the Silence" Attendees of an Israeli Knesset Education Committee meeting, on Tuesday, called for the dismissal of former…A Bizarre Argument From a Conservative Israeli Lawmaker Against Palestinian Statehood
AJ+ | (Video report) | - - Anat Berko, a conservative member of the Israeli Knesset, said there could be no Palestine because there's no letter “P” in Arabic. She made the…Russia and Iran are allied in Syria – but are they as close as they seem?
Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani | ( The Conversation | - - After years of isolation, Iran is slowly coming back in from the cold after the deal to curb its nuclear programme. And as…Russia Warns of ‘World War’ as Saudi Plans Syria Intervention
TeleSur | - - Saudi Arabia’s decision to send troops to Syria is “final” and “irreversible,” Saudi military spokesman Ahmed Al-Assiri told reporters Thursday evening as he confirmed earlier comments about sending…Israel razes Over 40 Palestinian homes, buildings in Jordan Valley
Ma'an News Agency | - - TUBAS (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed over 40 Palestinian homes and structures in the Tubas district of the occupied West Bank as ongoing Israeli…Israel: Friedman of the NY Times surrenders to One-State Solution, sees ME Apocalypse
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Tom Friedman of the New York Times has completely given up on a two-state solution, forthrightly abandoning the polite fiction that there will…Turkey must not strand new Wave of Syrian Refugees, & nor should Europe
Human Rights Watch | - - (Istanbul) – Turkey should allow Syrians at its border fleeing the fighting in and around Aleppo to seek protection in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today.…The Choice: Fear & Militarization or Curing the Disease of Violence
By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) | - - BELFAST (IPS) - The World Health Organization has said that ‘Violence is a preventable disease’ and people are not born violent, rather…Israeli Parliament Targets Human Rights NGOs
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved the first reading of the "NGO transparency bill," denounced by critics as a move to delegitimize and…VICE Special Report: Fighting Isis (Ben Anderson Debrief)
Journalist Ben Anderson gives a debrief on the current affairs occurring in Iraq and Syria and the events that led to the quagmire we currently see there today.Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe
By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation | - - The Syrian civil war and the refugee crisis it has caused is the greatest humanitarian disaster facing the world right now. But while…The Evil Genie U.S. Let Out of Bottle in Iraq Continues His Rampage
By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - As time passes, whatever responsibility Americans took for atrocities in Iraq, which are ongoing, has almost completely disappeared. The word…Erdogan Threatened Europe with Refugees, now Demanding US abandon Syrian Kurds
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports that Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan allegedly bullied European leaders and threatened to drown Europe in refugees if his terms were not…Oil Dictator Dominos
By Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate | - - LONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain…