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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

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Syria
US-Backed Leftist Kurds Holds talks with Damascus on Future of Northeast

US-Backed Leftist Kurds Holds talks with Damascus on Future of Northeast

Damascus (AFP) – A US-backed Kurdish-led alliance is holding talks in Damascus for the first time on the future of the swathe of northern Syria […]

AFP

Immigration
Trump Admin. Misses Deadline to Reunite all 3,000 Kids

Trump Admin. Misses Deadline to Reunite all 3,000 Kids

Some 1,600 kids have not been reunited with their parents after being separated at the US-Mexico border. Advocates say some kids lost in bureaucratic ‘black […]

TeleSur

Iraq
Fearing Repression, Iraq’s Sunnis won’t Join Wave of Protests

Fearing Repression, Iraq’s Sunnis won’t Join Wave of Protests

Baghdad (Niqash.org) – A few days ago, a resident in the northern city of Mosul posted a comment about ongoing protests in southern Iraq on […]

Mustafa Habib

Donald Trump
Iran's Soleimani warns Trump that Invading Iran Would spark Ruinous Guerrilla War

Iran’s Soleimani warns Trump that Invading Iran Would spark Ruinous Guerrilla War

Qasem Soleimani, the head of the special operations Jerusalem (Qods) Brigade of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, spent Thursday morning taunting US president Donald Trump, […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Anti-Corruption Sentiment Propels Sports Star Imran Khan to Victory in Pakistan

Anti-Corruption Sentiment Propels Sports Star Imran Khan to Victory in Pakistan

Islamabad (AFP) – Pakistan cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan claimed victory Thursday in the country’s tense general election marred by allegations of “blatant” rigging […]

David Stout

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Cartoonist Fired over ‘Animal Farm’ Satire of Netanyahu’s Jim Crow Law

Israeli Cartoonist Fired over ‘Animal Farm’ Satire of Netanyahu’s Jim Crow Law

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Jerusalem Report, a biweekly magazine published by The Jerusalem Post, dismissed a freelance cartoonist for an illustration depicting Israeli Prime Minister […]

Maan News Agency

Houthi
Will attack on Saudi Tanker Expand Scope of Yemen War?

Will attack on Saudi Tanker Expand Scope of Yemen War?

With Anuj Chopra in Riyadh | – Dubai (AFP) – Saudi Arabia’s halt to oil shipments through a strategic waterway after Yemeni rebel attacks could […]

Omar Hasan

Climate Change
Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was […]

Tom Engelhardt

astronomy and outer space
In turning point for Humanity, Scientists Discover a Large Lake on Mars

In turning point for Humanity, Scientists Discover a Large Lake on Mars

The next question is whether anything is living in it

Jonti Horner

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