(Middle East Monitor) – Around 3.5 million people across Yemen have fled their homes due to the conflict in the country, the head of Turkish Red Crescent said on Friday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Yemen’s southern city of Lahij, Kerem Kinik said: “Two-thirds of the overall population have been struggling with food insecurity and […]
Archives for December 2018
Israeli Army Snipers Kill Palestinian Teen, shoot 40 others in Gaza Protests
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teen was shot and killed by Israeli forces, while at least 40 others sustained injuries with Israeli live fire, and dozens suffered tear-gas inhalation as Israeli forces suppressed the 39th Friday of the return marches across the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health […]
With US Troop Pull-Out, Afghans Fear Return to Taliban Era
With Thomas Watkins in Washington – Kabul, Afghanistan | AFP | – The move has stunned foreign diplomats and officials trying to end the 17-year conflict with the Taliban, which already controls vast amounts of territory and is causing ‘unsustainable’ Afghan troop casualties US President Donald Trump has decided to pull about 7,000 troops from […]
Erdogan Vows to Destroy Leftist Kurdish YPG Militia – a US Ally – in Syria
By Ezzedine Said with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday vowed to drive out a US-backed Kurdish militia and jihadists from Syria as Kurdish forces there warned that any attack by Ankara could seriously undermine the fight against the Islamic State. Erdogan’s promise followed […]
Review of Juan Cole, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace” at The New Arab
The New Arab is carrying a review of my new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Usman Butt, “multimedia television researcher, filmmaker and writer based in London. Usman read International Relations and Arabic Language at the University of Westminster and completed a Master of Arts in Palestine Studies at the […]
Mattis was no Shining Knight: From backing Yemen War to Whitewashing Khashoggi Murder
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Official Washington was horrified at the resignation on Thursday of Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who wrote Trump a letter (below) that said “Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right […]
Trump abandons Syrian Kurds, and relations with Turkey Soar
(With Ezzedine Said in Istanbul) Washington, DC | AFP | – US President Donald Trump (right) spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan days before the US leader’s surprise announcement of a pullout of 2,000 troops from Syria Months after hitting rock bottom, relations between the United States and Turkey have quickly improved with […]
The New Role of the US Navy as Brig for the World
( Tomdispatch.com) – I grew up in New London, Connecticut, watching many a military ship float by my window. New London was home to the Coast Guard Academy and sat across the river from a U.S. Navy submarine base. Uniformed guardsmen, sailors in training, and sub crews leaving port would regularly wave to my friends […]
“Dangerous!:” Israel Denounces Trump’s withdrawal from Syria
US President Donald Trump’s dramatic decision to withdraw troops from Syria has been condemned by fellow members of the international coalition and Washington’s Kurdish partners on the ground, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Declaring in a tweet that Daesh militants had been defeated in Syria, Trump overrode his top national security aides, blindsided US ground […]
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