Saudi’s King Salman in Turkey signals thaw in Ankara-Riyadh Tensions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia's King Salman is visiting Turkey…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia's King Salman is visiting Turkey…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The cessation of hostilities in Syria never…
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Saudi’s King Salman in Turkey signals thaw in Ankara-Riyadh Tensions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia's King Salman is visiting Turkey today, after his trip to Egypt this past weekend (I wrote about that at The Nation).…Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes
By Neil Sammonds | (Inter Press Service) | - - GENEVA (IPS) - The negotiations on April 11, 2016 in Geneva and the recent reduction of hostilities in Syria may represent important…Israeli Police, going into Palestinian West Bank, Detain & Abuse Children
Human Rights Watch | - - (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than…Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)
By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | - - "Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive threat—but what does that mean? Are there…Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Displacement of Palestinian Bedouins
By IMEMC | - - Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large scale demolitions of homes in the Palestinian…Syria: Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The cessation of hostilities in Syria never included Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) or al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front or Support Front), but it did include…In an Age of Global Terror, do Failed States endanger you, too?
By Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin | (Inter Press Service) | - - NEW YORK, Apr 9 2016 (IPS) - Regardless of whether they are called fragile, failed, or failing states, scores…Palestinians mark 68th anniversary of their massacre at Deir Yassin by Jewish Terrorists
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinians on Saturday marked the 68th anniversary of the massacre of more than 100 Palestinians civilians carried out by Zionist paramilitary groups in…With Iraq’s Shiite Gov’t in Collapse, Can Country finally get past US-crafted Sectarianism?
Niqash.org | Baghdad | - - Iraq’s Crises Highlight Major Divide Between Country’s Shiite Politicians The Shiite political alliance that dominates Iraq is cracking under pressure from the country’s crises. But some…If ISIL falls before November, how will it affect the US Election?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - GOP frontrunner Donald Trump openly attributes his success at the polls to the terrorist attacks on Paris last fall, in which Daesh (ISIS,…Far-Right Israeli Government ‘At Risk of Collapse,’ as Electorate feels Buyer’s Remorse
TeleSur | - - The right-wing coalition may collapse if the Zionist Union fails to join the government. A key Israeli minister said Thursday that the government is at risk of collapsing…124 Palestinians made homeless by Israeli demolitions in 1 day
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Multiple demolitions in the occupied West Bank left 124 Palestinians homeless in a single day, 60 of them children, the United Nations Office…Syrian independent media offers bold challenge to extremism
By Julia Taleb | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - On January 10, the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Syria, stormed the headquarters of Radio Fresh in Kafranbel and…American Bombs Killing Civilians in Yemen, Report Finds
By Nika Knight, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - "One of the deadliest strikes against civilians in Yemen's year-long war involved U.S.-supplied weapons" The year-long campaign of Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen…Panama Papers: Snowden Calls on the UK to Demand Prime Minister Cameron’s Resignation
TeleSur | - - Snowden's call comes after Cameron was implicated in the Panama Papers leak that exposed the offshore dealings of international elites and their fortunes. Edward Snowden called on the…Are Sanders’ Criticisms of Israeli Occupation Policies unprecedented in a Presidential Campaign?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bernie Sanders is being attacked for comments on the Middle East in his interview with the editorial board of The New York Daily…ISIL and the New Sex Slavery
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – The extremist armed group Islamic State should urgently release Yezidi women and girls they abducted in 2014, Human Rights Watch said today, following new…Activism v. Stereotypes: Women fighting Extremism aren’t just Victims or Amazon Soldiers
By Sanam Naraghi Anderlini | (Inter Press Service) | - - WASHINGTON DC, Apr 6 2016 (IPS) - Violent extremism is the topic du jour, as government officials are busy developing plans…Israeli forces have killed 2,000 Palestinian Children, wounded 13,000, jailed 12,000 since 2000
By IMEMC | - - About 2,070 Palestinian children have been killed, and more 13,000 injured since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, until this past March, official sources have reported,…Syria: Al-Assad Family’s Massive Stolen Wealth in Panama Papers helps explain Revolution
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The revelation in the leaked Panama Papers that Mossack Fonseca and Swiss bank HSBC serviced the companies of corrupt Syrian billionaire Rami Makhlouf…