With opinion now evenly split between those who favour a one or two-state solution, many in the US are turning their attention to the systemic inequities faced by Palestinians By Jonathon Cook | The National | December 17, 2018 Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to […]
Press TV – December 17, 2018 The Afghan Taliban militant group says it is set to hold a fresh round of talks with US officials this time in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite earlier reports that suggested the meeting would take place in neighboring Pakistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a Twitter post […]
Press TV – December 15, 2018 An Iraqi anti-terror paramilitary group has pledged to stand by Hezbollah in the event of a war following recent Israeli operations near the Lebanese border. “In the event of any war against Hezbollah, the movement is not going to be alone,” Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba spokesman Hashim al-Mousawi told Iran’s […]
By M.K. Bhadrakumar | NewsClick | December 14, 2018 An impression has been gaining ground lately that the Trump administration is making overtures to Ankara to revive the original US-Turkish project on regime change in Damascus. The recent visit to Ankara by James Jeffrey, the US special representative to Syria, was seen in that light. […]
Sputnik – 13.12.2018 WASHINGTON – A Turkish unilateral military operation in northeast Syria if launched would be unacceptable and Ankara should consult with the United States to address the security situation, Defense Department spokesperson Cmdr. Sean Robertson told Sputnik. Earlier, Ankara announced that the Turkish military would launch an operation against Kurdish forces. “Unilateral military […]
Press TV – December 12, 2018 The US military says it has established “observation posts” in northern Syria with the purported aim of preventing clashes between Turkish forces and US-backed Kurdish militants, despite Ankara’s strong opposition to the plan. “At the direction of Secretary (James) Mattis, the US established observation posts in the northeast Syria […]
MEMO | December 12, 2018 Israel is to build an embassy complex in occupied Jerusalem, a year after US President Donald Trump announced his plans to relocate the American Embassy to the city. Israel’s Construction and Housing Ministry announced today that it plans to build a complex with space for nine separate embassies in occupied […]
Al-Manar | December 12, 2018 Spokesman for Yemen’s revolutionary Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdulsalam, who heads a delegation in the ongoing peace talks in Sweden, said the presence of foreign forces in the Arabian Peninsula country cannot be justified. Speaking to the Arabic-language al-Masirah TV on Tuesday night, Abdulsalam said the foreign troops’ presence in Yemen […]
Something is missing By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • December 11, 2018 When George H.W. Bush died on November 30th, America’s two self-proclaimed newspapers of record The Washington Post and The New York Times were both quick off the mark in publishing what appeared to be definitive obituaries of the former president and statesman […]
Sputnik – December 8, 2018 A carrier strike group led by the Nimitz-class supercarrier USS John C. Stennis has arrived in the Middle East, ending an eight month period during which a US carrier wasn’t based in the region, the US Navy has reported. Earlier, the Pentagon announced that the US and its allies in eastern Syria would train […]
