Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports that on Friday, Turkey began…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports that on Friday, Turkey began…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's angry threat to…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a…
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Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports that on Friday, Turkey began cross-border shelling of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in northern Syria. There are also reports of busloads…A Mountain Kingdom? Iraqi leaders unconcerned About New PKK ‘Region’
Special Correspondent | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | - - Late last month the Kurdistan Worker's Party – an organization some describe as terrorist – declared a region of self-rule in the Qandil…Russia accuses US of destabilizing Syria with Kurdish-Turkish Clash
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's angry threat to invade a Syrian Kurdish canton in response to the US announcement that it would train and…Turkey to deploy 60,000 soldiers in bases abroad, including in Qatar
Middle East Monitor |- - 60,000 armed Turkish soldiers will be deployed across four military bases abroad in accordance with a new 2022 plan, The New Khalij reported today. The Turkish National…A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?
By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid…12 Strong. The Inside Story on the Making of a (Refreshingly Accurate) Hollywood War Epic
By Brian Glyn Williams (with Julie Romei) | (Informed Comment) | - - When I received a phone call from a representative for famed producer Jerry Bruckheimer to visit the remote mountains…Trump Admin Commits to Forever War in Syria against Iran
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a talk Wednesday at the right wing Hoover Institution that hovers over Stanford University, in which he…Despite Challenges, Palestine Plans Solar Energy in 500 Schools
TeleSur | - - While the U.S. and its leader dismiss climate change, the Palestinian government is endorsing renewable energy sources. Despite mounting pressure on the Palestinian government and people by both…Tunisia is back on a knife edge – here’s why
By Pamela Abbott and Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | - - While celebrating the seventh anniversary of the ousting of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisians have been demonstrating against their…Rouhani: Iran won’t allow unfair pressure on Qatar
Middle East Monitor | - - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that his country does not accept “unjustified and unfair pressure” exerted on the Qatari people and government. Rouhani made the…As US throws Kurds under the Bus, Is Turkey preparing to invade Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The BBC reports that Turkish armed forces are massed on the border with Syria in preparation for a possible move into the Kurdish-held…Its Central Council calls on PLO to de-Recognize Israel, cease Security Cooperation
IMEMC News | - - The second-highest decision-making body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided Monday to call on the executive committee to suspend recognition of Israel until Israel recognizes the…Iran says planned US-backed force inside Syria would fan war
Middle East Monitor | - - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday a new US-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international law and Syrian sovereignty, joining Syria, Turkey…Trump as the Termite-in-Chief boring away at Global American Influence
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - As 2017 ended with billionaires toasting their tax cuts and energy executives cheering their unfettered access to federal lands as well as coastal…Turkey threatens war against US/Kurdish Force in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US announcement that it would form a 30,000 strong policing force in northeast Syria from the YPG leftist Kurdish militia has provoked…UN Slams Saudi Arabia for Human Rights Atrocities in Yemen
TeleSur | - - Widespread destruction from the U.S-backed Saudi airstrikes has displaced over a million people in the region. A U.N. report on human rights abuses has accused Saudi Arabia's coalition…What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its independence from Britain. The British had grabbed…Saudi Prince Alwaleed in talks with gov’t over demand he surrender Billions
Middle East Monitor | - - Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained for over two months in an anti-corruption crackdown, is negotiating a possible settlement with authorities but so far…Israeli Prosecutors Throw Book at Palestinian Child Protestor
By Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) | - - On Monday, an Israeli military court will decide whether to release 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi on bail or keep her in jail…The Tunisian revolution seven years on
By Lakhdar Ghettas | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Seven years after the Tunisian revolution one can dissect four main conflict issues in Tunisia today. A rally marking the third anniversary of the…