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Archives: War
Will the Mideast’s Civil Wars Partition it into small Warring States?
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - As civil wars and cross-border military conflicts continue to escalate in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq and Libya…
Thousands of Children Under Siege in War-Torn Syria
By Valentina Ieri | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Seeing children dying due to a lack of doctors and medicines, and seeing them grow up in a…
Not just Madaya: A million people under Food Sieges in Mideast
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - Despite international laws prohibiting the use of starvation against civilians, forces on all sides preventing aid from reaching blockaded towns in…
How Bad Is The Violence In Iraq?
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "A UN report on the violence in Iraq from January 2014 to October 2015 makes for sober reading. 19,000 civilians were killed, 36,000 injured…
What is an H-Bomb?
Arirang News | (Video Short Documentary) | - - "So North Korea claims it′s a hydrogen not an atomic bomb that it′s tested. But what exactly is the difference， and if true…
Do Drug Gangs in Mexico kill more than ISIL? & other Big Security threats that will Surprise You
By Natasha Ezrow | (The Conversation) | - - This has been a remarkably violent year – and many of the worst threats to human security that have dogged people all over…
Which war did the Republican candidates serve in? Reflections on GOP War Talk from an Iraq vet
By Ramon Mejia | ( Waging Nonviolence) | - - As a U.S. Marine veteran who was deployed to Iraq in 2003, I can’t even begin to describe the disgust I felt…
5 Questions For Syria Hawks
David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - Last month’s horrific attacks in Paris and last week’s massacre in California – which was at most loosely connected to Daesh (ISIS/ISIL)– have…
41% of Trump Supporters want to bomb Aladdin and Jasmine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Public Policy Polling asked US voters if they favored bombing "Agraba." Some 30% of Republicans said "Yes!" Obviously, this is a a little…
Is the US Suddenly entering a Major new War in Iraq & Syria?
Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy) | - - The spreading influence of ISIS is forcing Washington into a strategic decision: escalate. Suddenly, and without almost anyone noticing, the war against ISIS in…
US think tank says Israel has around 115 nuclear weapons
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A Washington-based think tank published a study Friday reporting Israel’s possession of around 115 nuclear weapons, despite the country's ongoing policy of ambiguity…
Paris attacks: how effective has the military response been?
By Scott Lucas | (The Conversation) | - - Even as Parisians were trying to assess the scale of the attacks by Islamic State (IS) which killed 132 people on November 13,…
How Syria is becoming a test bed for high-tech weapons of electronic warfare
David Stupples | (The Conversation) | - - The relationship between Russia and the West is becoming increasingly dangerous with potential flashpoints developing in both eastern Europe and Syria. After repeated incursions…
Making money off Nuclear Apocalypse while obsessing about Non-Nuclear Iran
By Richard Krushnic & Jonathan Alan King | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: somewhere in the United States, the highly profitable operations of a set of…
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…
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…
Water Being Used as Weapon of War in Syrian Conflict, UN Warns
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer. | (Commondreams.org) | - - Compounded by scorching heat wave, Syrians are experiencing 'deliberate' water cut-offs, often for weeks at a time The United Nations on Tuesday…
Is Israeli military using Barak in struggle w/ Netanyahu over Iran Deal?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - - The revelations from former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's memoir keep coming. Another excerpt was broadcast by Israel's Channel 2 on Sunday. Barak gave…