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Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Since Trump has decided that declining to…
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual…
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Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish cantons in northern Syria staged a demonstration…British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage
By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | - - In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one…UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December
Middle East Monitor | - - Up to 47,000 Yemenis have been displaced to Aden as a result of rising military tensions in Taiz and the Red Sea port governorate Hudaydah, the…Turkey & Vatican tag team Trump over Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor | - - Both Erdogan and Pope Francis are opposed to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which many US allies say…Right’s ban on phrase “Polish Death Camps” Backfires on Warsaw
Sławomir Sierakowski | (Project Syndicate) | - - A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations. But the move only serves to highlight the fact that some…The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Laws
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | - - A spate of defiant Iranian women have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest against compulsory veiling. Photos of their demonstrations…Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Guards at Turkey’s closed border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights…Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group in Idlib, a northwestern province of Syria,…Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi
TeleSur | - - Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian teen. More than 700 Jewish young people…Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen
Middle East Monitor | - - Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. Sixteen armed smugglers entered the governorate in…206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying 206 companies from around the world that…Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington
Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL) | - - WASHINGTON -- The directors of Russia’s three main intelligence and espionage agencies all traveled to the U.S. capital in recent days, in what observers…Saudi Prince reaps $106 bn from “Anti-Corruption” Scheme
Middle East Monitor | - - Saudi media sources yesterday confirmed the release of all detainees held on corruption charges at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the capital Riyadh. The news comes following…Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott
TeleSur | - - Opposition parties and leaders are calling for a boycott of Egypt's presidential elections after other candidates were arrested or intimidated. Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned its political…Egyptian opposition call for boycotting presidential elections
Middle East Monitor | - - Egyptian former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi called today for boycotting the country’s upcoming presidential elections due in March. Speaking at a press conference held at the…Yemen just got Bloodier & more Complicated: Trump Ally UAE backing Separatist Militia
By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | - - The fighting that erupted in Aden over the weekend is still going on, but army forces loyal to exiled president Hadi appear…Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Trump administration has refused to implement new sanctions on the Russian defense sector, as mandated by Congress's “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions…US general defies Turkey, says not planning Manbij troop withdrawal
Middle East Monitor | - - The United States has no plans to withdraw troops stationed near the town of Manbij in northern Syria despite warnings from Turkey to remove its forces…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…