No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Associated Press did a useful fact…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Associated Press did a useful fact…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This past year is what the era…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In the course of Trump's softball interview…
Foreign Policy
Ankara warns US spec ops to Abandon Kurds or risk Turkish Attacks
TeleSur | - - Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag also stated that "those who support the terrorist organisation will become a target in this battle." Turkey's government has urged the United…US Pentagon will Keep fighting in Syria until they win the Vietnam War
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Vietnam: it’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled the longest in our history, is still…“Human Rights” highly Selective in Trump’s first Year
Administration’s Middle East Foreign Policy Dismissive of Rights Values Elisa Epstein, Advocacy Coordinator | ( Human Rights Watch) | - - Senior US officials have made comments on the Middle East recently…Afghanistan: Taliban Massacres nearly 100, wounds150 in Kabul
TeleSur | - - The explosion took place in an area near many embassies and government buildings. A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 40 people and wounded about 140…Camel Contestants in Saudi Pageant busted for Botox
By Daniel Martin Varisco | MENA Tidningen | - - The camel, once referred to as the “ship of the desert” for the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the most enduring icons…Why Don’t Syria, Iran, Iraq And Turkey Want A Kurdistan? (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | "Last year's referendum on an independent Kurdistan was the latest chapter in a decades-long fight for Kurdish sovereignty. But why was there never an independent Kurdistan…In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The hopes of the Trump administration to use the Syrian Kurds as a wedge against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may…Human Rights Win in Iran: Thousands of Death Sentences for Drugs Dropped
Centre for Human Rights in Iran | Trans. & Ed. Global Voices Online An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked,…Palestinians: If Jerusalem is Off the Table, Peace is Off the Table
IMEMC News & Agencies International | - - Palestinian officials denounced, on Thursday, renewed statements by US President Donald Trump that Jerusalem is off the negotiating table and threats to cut all…It is all about the Oil: US Diplomats on Mideast Obsession
By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of the American Empire in the Middle East In recent testimony before the Senate…German Anti-Muslim Party Member in Surprise Conversion to Islam
TeleSur | - - Arthur Wagner resigned from Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 11 for "personal reasons" and "only afterwards was it known that he had converted to Islam." Arthur Wagner,…Countering Turkish Propaganda, Pentagon reports 150 ISIL Killed in Airstrikes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The front page news today that US and coalition aircraft (mostly American joined by French and British pilots) struck last Saturday at an…Trump slashes funding to most vulnerable Palestinians, children (UNRWA)
By Anne Irfan | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration has announced that it will drastically cut its donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank join Gaza in General Strike to protest Pence
IMEMC | - - As U.S. Vice President and Christian Zionist Mike Pence visited Jerusalem Tuesday, Palestinian stores and businesses across the city and across the West Bank were shuttered to protest…Jordan’s King Abdullah warns Pence-Trump of Major instability over Jerusalem
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Political scientist John Mearsheimer wrote a book on the tragedy of great power politics. While that subject is indeed shockingly depressing, imagine the…Top Trump officials, in Syria’s Raqqa, vow “Stabilization” w/out “Reconstruction”
Middle East Monitor | - - The US government’s aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most senior US civilian official from the Trump…Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition “Terrorism”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - BBC Arabic reports that Turkey has launched a land invasion of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in northern Syria, home to some 500,000 Kurds.…Trump’s deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts
By Kenneth Brown | (Informed Comment) | - - As a visiting student in Jerusalem I witnessed the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, the attempt by Israel, France and the U.K. to…Is China coming into Syria for its “One Belt, One Road”?
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - As the Syrian civil war begins to wind down after six and a half years of bitter fighting, a new phase is emerging…Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support
Middle East Monitor | - - US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to Egypt, where he pledged firm US backing…