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By Valery Kulikov – New Eastern Outlook – 24.10.2017 As forces of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group are pushed across Syria and Iraq, one can clearly see Israel’s shifting position regarding the situation in Syria, which can be explained by Tel-Aviv’s desire to reorder the Middle East. It’s clear that Israel has finally realized […]
According to a report circulating unofficially in Arabic, the latest in a sixty-nine year history of proposals to resolve the western Zionist invasion of Palestine (AKA the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict”) is about to see the light of day. It claims Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu originated the proposal and that secret deliberations have been underway for more than five months.
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Mashrou' Leila, a 5 piece alt-rock band from Beirut, is almost 10 years old. The sing about the some topics indie bands everywhere sing about-- like why stuff (like politics) sucks. But in their part of the world, those topics can mean trouble, especially now that they're hugely popular and draw gigantic crowds. Lead singer Hamed Sinno is openly gay-- which is dangerous in conservative Middle East societies.
THE Syrian army fought its way into the Euphrates valley town of Mayadeen yesterday — one of the last major Isis strongholds.
Military sources told Lebanon’s Al Masdar News that troops entered the city, south of Deir Ezzor, from the west after a brief clash on the outskirts.
Even before the arrival of an estimated 1.3 million refugees, Jordan was one of the most water-scarce countries in the world.
In 2014, annual water availability plummeted from 147 cubic metres to 123 cm per person, far below the international water poverty line of 500cm per capital per year.
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Nusra Front fighters in Idlib. (Photo: Facebook)
Alastair Crooke
Consortium News
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | September 7, 2017 The Israeli armed forces began a massive fortnight-long military exercise on Tuesday, billed as the biggest in the past 19 years, simulating a war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post reported that “thousands of soldiers and reservists from all different branches of the IDF […]
