Syria
Turkey’s power-play in Qatar leads to warmer relations with Iran
By Seth J. Frantzman
The Qatar-Turkey alliance creates a third side to the Middle East's regional struggles and will affect Israel.
On June 17 the Iranian...
Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View
by Jonathan Cook
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses...
Trump’s Syrian chemical weapons claims: A house of cards
In the latest season of the Netflix drama House of Cards, the fictional administration of President Francis Underwood and Vice President Claire Underwood, facing...
Killing a Republic – Kissinger and Cyprus
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
First published: 6th January 2017
In July 1974 the US-controlled Athens military junta organized a coup d’état in Cyprus and an assassination...
Russian military halts Syria sky incident prevention interactions with US as...
The Russian Defense Ministry announced it is halting cooperation with its US counterparts in the framework of the Memorandum on the Prevention of Incidents...
The New York Times steps up its anti-Russia campaign
The CIA’s principal house organ, the New York Times, published a lead editorial Sunday on the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016...
US jets shoot down ‘Iranian drone’ in Syria – coalition
An Iranian-made drone was shot down by a US F-15 fighter jet in southern Syria, near At Tanf, the US-led coalition said. It is...
Escalating threat of US-Russian confrontation in Syria
By Bill Van Auken
Raising the specter of the Syrian conflict escalating into a military confrontation between the world’s two major nuclear powers, the...
Three Axes in the Middle East
Finding goodness
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
It has been a very challenging week. Not in terms of life or our (volunteer) work. I and my wife...
US-Led Airstrike Hits Syrian Forces in Latest Aggression
Source: TeleSur / The Dawn News / June 6, 2017
A Russian official called the strike “a direct entry of the coalition into an open...