Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - WaPo is reporting that it was the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan…
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Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in al-Hudayda, a port on the western coast of Yemen under Houthi control, have killed some 43…Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem…Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | - - . . . "There's no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the single largest, most complex humanitarian crisis in…10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to…60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | - - Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and…UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It
By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the UNESCO resolution [pdf] on Palestine and Israel,…Iraq: Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won’t Enter Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) said Thursday that the KRG paramilitary, the Peshmerga, will not…Int’l Conflict over Aleppo & Mosul is Making local Civil Wars Worse
By Christopher Hill | (Project Syndicate) | - - DENVER – The Middle East’s tragic tale of two cities – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – speaks to a fundamental…Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios
By James L. Gelvin | (The Conversation) | - - Most military analysts believe it’s only a matter of time before Mosul falls. Mosul is Iraq’s third largest city. The Islamic State…Israel’s Blockade of Gaza is Inherently Violent
By Mike Merryman-Lotze | (Otherwords) | - - Every day Palestinians live in fear of another U.S.-funded attack by the Israeli government. This fall, the U.S. agreed to provide $38 billion in…Why is the US helping Saudi Arabia target Yemen’s future?
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment ) | - - Saudi Arabia has long been accused of needlessly hitting civilian targets during its air campaign in neighbouring Yemen. Most commentators have put…Trump says Clinton will Start WW III with Russia, but Moscow Disagrees
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump alleged on Tuesday that if elected, Hillary Clinton would start World War III with Russia over Syria. He wondered how Clinton…Girl Soldiers: Forgotten Casualties of War
By Pat Hynes | ( Truthdig ) | - - As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was visibly shaken by sexual crimes against women and girls when she visited the Democratic Republic…Israel Envy and Trump’s Wall
By Shalom Goldman | (Patheos) | - - In the current presidential campaign, Republicans and Democrats seem to be competing with each other to proclaim their “pro-Israel” stances. In a March address…Why Trump is (really) wrong to bet against US Military-backed Mosul Campaign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As Josh Rogin pointed out, Donald Trump's pronouncement that the Mosul campaign is bound to fail is an affront to the Iraqi and…Remember when Nazis stripped Jews of Citizenship? Now Israeli Right wants To
TeleSur | - - Coalition whip MK David Bitan also wants to strip citizenship from B'Tselem director Hagai El-Ad, after he made calls to sanction Israel. “The only democracy in the Middle…Iraqi Kurdistan forces take Bashiqa on road to Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday, AFP reports in Arabic, Iraqi forces continued their advance on Mosul despite the car bombs and sniping tactics of Daesh (ISIS,…101st Illegal Land Grab: Israel Squatters Seize Palestinian-owned lands in Jordan Valley
IMEMC News | - - Late last week, Israeli settlers reportedly took over a Palestinian-owned area of land in al-Humma region of the northern Jordan Valley, and laid down an infrastructure, according…Norman Finkelstein on 58 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Tommaso Segantini interviews Norman Finkelstein | (TeleSur) | - - Renowned scholar and political activist Norman Finkelstein speaks with teleSUR English about a range of issues around Israel's occupation of Palestine. The…Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?
By Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | - - Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed where Kurdish military should fight. But, as commanders worry, there’s been no agreement as to how…