Top Six Reasons Pompeo should not be Secretary of State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Natalie Portman has declined the award of…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thomas Friedman's column this week made several…
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Danger: ISIL is defeated, but Raqqa’s people are Devastated and waiting for Accountability
Akshaya Kumar, Deputy United Nations Director | (Human Rights Watch) | - - UN Security Council Meeting Should Address Plight of Raqqa’s Residents The United Nations Security Council meets again today on…Israeli Marksmen continue to use Peaceful Palestinian Protesters in Gaza for Target Practice: 2 dead, 40 Wounded
Ma'an News Agency | - - Gaza City (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces shot and killed a 24-year-old Palestinian protester in Gaza on Friday afternoon, the second Palestinian to be killed during Friday’s…Star Wars actor Natalie Portman cancels Award in Israel, hints Netanyahu has gone to the Dark Side
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Natalie Portman has declined the award of the annual Genesis Foundation Prize in Jerusalem on the grounds that she is distressed by recent…Iran formally switches from dollar to euro
Middle East Monitor | - - Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than…Who has won the Syrian War in the wake of the fall of ISIL?
Seyed Ali Alavi | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - ISIL may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria's political soul is far from over. A Syrian army checkpoint in the town…Friedman: Does Iran’s Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thomas Friedman's column this week made several allegations about the danger of an explosive situation in Syria, about which he is certainly correct.…‘Great March’ for Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return Endures Bloody Crackdown
By Joey Ayoub and Marwa Fatafta | ( GlobalVoices.org) | - - After months of preparing, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters launched the “Great Return March” along Gaza's eastern borders with…Diamond rain in Sudan evidence of ‘lost planet,’ Arab Scientists Find
Middle East Monitor | - - Diamonds from outer space formed inside a long-lost planet Diamonds found inside a meteorite which exploded over Sudan could prove the existence of a “lost planet”,…Israel to French Mayor: You can’t visit Occupied Palestine if you stand against Occupation
TeleSur | - - Leclerc Patrice, a member of the French Communist Party, has been denied entry into Israel more than once for his support of the BDS movement. France's Foreign Ministry…With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?
By Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | - - On our third trip to Istanbul, my wife and I visited the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, once the administrative centre of the Ottoman…Syria After Trump’s Withdrawal: Top Reasons an “Arab Force” will Fail
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump's determination to withdraw US troops from eastern Syria by October, so that GOP candidates for representative and senator can run on…As Lebanon prepares to vote, Amnesty for the disenfranchised provokes Fierce Debate
Haley Bobseine | (Informed Comment) | - - After almost a decade of multiple postponements stalling the national political process and depriving citizens of their right to vote, Lebanese parliamentary elections will…Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Campaign escalates into War of Missiles
Khalil Dewan @KhalilDewan | Middle East Monitor | - - As Mohammed Bin Salman’s global tour continues in a bid to stabilise Riyadh’s economy, his foreign policy needs revising to ensure political…Will Bolton and MEK pull an Iraq War-like Chalabi-type Scam on Iran?
By Nadejda K. Marinova (Author of Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country: How Host States Use Diasporas (Oxford University Press, 2017).[1] Informed Comment | - - On the fifteenth…European Union: Turkey further than ever on Human Rights, Rule of Law
Middle East Monitor | - - Turkey will on Tuesday receive the European Commission’s most critical report since it launched its bid to join the European Union over a decade ago, with…Trump can’t Actually care much about Syrians if he only let in 11 Refugees this Year
TeleSur | - - "We are seeing the impact of the Trump administration's words and policy and actions that slams the door on refugees," says Oxfam America. The United States has accepted…The Tragedy of American Great Power Moves on the Middle East: Trump Can, so he Will
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - As assumed, the US, the UK and France launched their coordinated airstrikes on Syria in the early hours of Saturday, April 14 to…Iraq on Syria Strikes: We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iraq's foreign ministry came out strongly against the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria. In a statement issued Saturday, the ministry…How the CIA’s secret torture program sparked a citizen-led public reckoning in North Carolina
By Alexandra Moore | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, is reported to have overseen a U.S. site in Thailand where torture of a…2 Dead, 30 wounded: Israeli troops again Fire on Peaceful Palestinian Protesters at Gaza Border
TeleSur | - - “I have no fear of dying because there is no life in Gaza,” one Palestinian told AFP. As Friday protests resumed near the border fence between Gaza and…