Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Al-Iraqiyah: Arab-Kurdish Polemics over the Oil City of Kirkuk
BBC Monitoring carries a translation of a discussion of the Kirkuk crisis on al-Iraqiyah televisions between a Kurdish and an Arab member of parliament.: August […]
2000 Georgian Troops Leaving; Huge Blast at Tal Afar Kills 21; Arab-Kurdish Tensions in Kirkuk; Mahdi Army to Disarm if US Leaves
A huge bomb blast in the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar killed 21 and wounded 70 on Friday. Tal Afar has been taken over […]
Kwame Trumps Georgian War
These are the top three stories at google.news at 3:00 pm on Friday, generated by reader interest. Wouldn’t, like, war in the Caucasus be more […]
InformationClearingHouse Web Owner Threatened
Are armed thugs threatening owners of progressive anti-war web sites in the United States? Tom Feeley who runs InformationClearingHouse.info says he and his family are […]
Plight of Iraqi Refugees
The US has virtually ignored the 4.7 million Iraqis displaced by its illegal war in Iraq and its after-effects. In an honest republic, this issue […]
Crisis in Pakistan: Articles of Impeachment against Musharraf
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has decided to fight the articles of impeachment introduced against him in the parliament by the ruling coalition of the […]
SOFA Near to Agreement?; US Combat Troops out by end of 2010? Kurds Unify Peshmerga, Surround Kirkuk
US out of Iraq at end of 2010? McClatchy reports that two high Iraqi officials are leaking details of an “almost completed” security agreement between […]
CTC West Point: Al-Qa’idah’s Road in and Out of Iraq
[pdf]: The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has an important new publication: Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedouts: Al-Qa’idah’s Road in and Out of Iraq. […]
Asbahi Resignation and Islamophobia
Kudos to Jake Tapper for pointing out that Mazen Asbahi, the coordinator for Muslim affairs of the Obama campaign until he stepped down after 10 […]
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