Al-Sharaa and his delegation had as their primary goal the lifting of US Caesar Act sanctions, which have crippled Syria’s reconstruction
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What Next for Turkey After President’s Power Play?
By Efe Kerem Sozer | (GlobalVoices.org) | – – Ahmet Davutoglu was disliked by many in Turkey. [Even after] he step[pped] down as Turkey's Prime […]
Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian members of parliament have approved the details of a bill that insists US compensate Iran […]
Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, May 16 2016 (IPS) – When, in March 2015, delegates from the Middle East […]
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot
By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | – – How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the […]
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”
By Saed Bannoura | PCBS/ IMEMC | – – Excerpted for IC This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics […]
British PM Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump announced his monstrous and yet daffy plan to exlude Muslims from the United […]
Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government […]
The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn’t ISIL, it’s bad, Corrupt Governance
By Marwan Muasher | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment […]
Nakba (Catastrophe)! Where did all the Palestinians Go?
AJ+ | (Video report) | – – “In 1948, around 80% of Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel. That […]











