Will Syrian Kurds defeat ISIL , helping Democrats win White House in 2016?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bad news came out of Syria for…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bad news came out of Syria for…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Billionaire bigot Donald Trump's tiff with Pope…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This morning, according to the Syria Observatory…
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Will Syrian Kurds defeat ISIL , helping Democrats win White House in 2016?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bad news came out of Syria for Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on two fronts Friday: Aleppo and, in Syria's far east, Hasakah. This has…Iran: Poet of Gender Discrimination flees Lashes, 11.5 Year Sentence
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | - - To get her first book of poetry past the Iranian censor, Fatemeh Ekhtesari did what other Iranian writers often have to do:…France: Turkish-Russian ‘War’ Possible over Syria
TeleSur | - - The French president said Russia and Turkey could engage in war over Turkish involvement in Syria as Russia called for an urgent U.N. Security Council. There is risk…No, it isn’t all one Thing: The Variety of Religious Experience in Islam
By Aaron W. Hughes | (The Conversation) | - - The rise of Islamic State has led to much speculation about the group’s origins: how do we account for forces and events…Civility? Professor Proposes Israel “flatten” a City of 1 million
By Belén Fernández | ( TeleSur ) | - - No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut: A debate over whether Israel should commit war crimes and wipe out a city of at…UN: Over 400 Palestinians displaced by Israel in 6 weeks
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Over 400 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced due to Israeli demolitions during the first six weeks of this year,…Syria: 500 Turkey-backed Sunni Arab Fighters Cross to defend Azaz from Kurds
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This morning, according to the Syria Observatory and the Arabic press some 500 Sunni Arab rebels based in Turkey crossed back into Syria…Turkey’s New Normal?: Bombing in Ankara kills Dozens
By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | - - Ankara. Wikimedia image. A bomb blast, believed to have originated from a car bomb, has killed at least 28 people and injured…Are Outside Interventions in Syria undermining Int’l Law & our own Security?
By Ingvild Bode | (The Conversation) | - - Since 2012, the war in Syria has lurched from one escalation to another. Syrians have been subjected to large-scale military force not only…Can the Nuclear Deal survive the Iranian and American Elections?
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - Although the implementation of Iranian nuclear deal has been welcomed by all those who had been involved in the…PA: Israel concealed prisoner’s hunger strike for 43 days
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners' Affairs on Tuesday accused Israel of concealing a 43-day long hunger strike being undertaken by a Palestinian…The Chinese are Coming: First ‘New Silk Road’ Train reaches Iran’s Capital
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a sign of China's increasingly powerful role in Central Asia and the Middle East, on Tuesday a Chinese train arrived in Tehran…Do Drug Profits actually drive Terrorism in the Muslim World?
Robert Rotberg | (The Conversation) | - - Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology. . . . ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor,…Turkey: Erdogan’s Domestic War for a Presidential System
By Rosa Burç and Burak Çopur | TeleSur | - - The current war against the Kurds and oppositional voices is being waged to push an autocratic presidential system. The surprising electoral…Syria: Instead of a Cease-Fire, have Great Powers unleashed new Proxy Wars?
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - MADRID (IPS) - - When 25 million Syrians–half of them refugees abroad or at home and the other half terrorised by daily…Confirmed: ISIL used Mustard Gas Against Kurds in Iraq
TeleSur | - - A chemical weapons investigator confirmed earlier reports that the extremist group used the banned chemical weapon. [ISIL] used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants last year, Reuters reported Monday.…UK Government to Ban Universities, Public Bodies from BDS of Israel
By IMEMC | - - On February 14th, 2016, the UK Government announced that it would be setting up guidelines to prevent public bodies from supporting the Palestinian rights through their procurement…Why is ISIL still trying to Slaughter and Enslave the ancient Yazidi Minority?
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - On February 3, the New York Times quoted the desperate plea of a Yazidi, a member of an ethnic-religious group facing communal…Has the Turkish-Saudi direct Military Intervention in Syria Begun?
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - The news that Turkey has begun military strikes against the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) militia inside Syria marks an ominous chapter in…Is Iran the most Stable Country in the Mideast 37 Years after its Revolution?