Informed Comment - Part 1405

Top 6 Reasons Turkey is Finally attacking ISIL in Syria’s Jarabulus

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey and coalition allies launch air strikes Wednesday morning against the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) stronghold of […]

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Republican Party

It Could Happen To You: How Trump Could Make America Less Democratic

By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Could Donald Trump destroy American democracy? While he muses carelessly about assassinating Hillary Clinton and […]

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Iran

The Short-Lived Russia-Iran Axis

By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian use of an Iranian airbase led some to see a Russia-Iran axis. They jumped […]

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Arab Spring

Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising

Notice: Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising In this eagerly awaited book, foremost Arab world and international affairs specialist Gilbert Achcar analyzes […]

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Featured

Is Turkey’s Pivot to Russia about Erdogan’s Survival?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s prime minister, Yildirim Binali, has announced a significant about-face in Turkey’s Syria policy. Murat Yetkin […]

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Featured

US-Allied Kurds advance in Hasaka City, NE Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Clashes continued on Sunday between the Kurdish YPG [People’s Protection Units] and the Syrian Arab Army […]

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Houthi

Ex-president Saleh offers ‘all Yemen’s facilities’ to Russia

By Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com) | – – In a TV interview today, Yemen’s ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, appeared to invite Russian military intervention […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Israel planning new Squatter settlement near Bethlehem to ‘cut Palestine’s West Bank in two’

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have been conducting a land survey in the southern occupied West Bank near Bethlehem […]

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Far Right