Members of the Tamimi family prevent an Israeli soldier from arresting Muhammad Tamimi, 12, during the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on 28 August. Muhannad SaleemActiveStills
by Kourosh Ziabari
(Middle East Eye) – Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still being harshly criticised in public, especially by the pro-reform, outspoken officials of President Hassan Rouhani’s administration. Rouhani, a centrist cleric, has himself opted to keep a restrained, inconspicuous stance in regard to the policies of the previous administration.
After 14 years of War on Terror the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states.
By Vincent Emanuele
Turkish troops near Syrian border are on high alert Photo Credit: C4 Mine
Israel’s Ayalon prison facility, inside the Green Line. (File photo by Activestills)
LDF fighters have seized Al-Qarrasi, Khan-Toman towns in Aleppo southern countryside by godspeed operation.
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There is overwhelming evidence that the Turks used the information the Russians have provided to the USA about their planned sorties. The fact that the Americans gave that information to the Turks is bad enough, but the fact that the Turks then used that information to shoot down a Russian aircraft makes the US directly responsible
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, right, speaks with a journalist from Dutch television station NPO2 in the Syrian capital of Damascus on December 17, 2015. (Photo by Syria’s official SANA news agency)
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (C-L) and his wife Asma al-Assad (C-R) posing for a picture with a Syrian man as they attend a Christmas choral presentation at the Lady of Damascus Catholic Church in the Syrian capital on December 18, 2015. © HO / AFP
By Stephen Gowans
In the view of Syrians, the country’s president, Bashar Al-Assad, and his ally, Iran, have more support than do the forces arrayed against him, according to a public opinion poll taken last summer by a research firm that is working with the US and British governments. [1]
