A Russian and Syrian offensive on Idlib province, a center of the opposition forces in the long-running Syrian War, killed over a dozen civilians over the weekend. Late on Saturday night, Russian jet fighters and ...
While the War in Afghanistan has been a catastrophe for most, it has been tremendously profitable for multinational corporations that do business with the U.S. military. U.S. Government officials systematically deceived the American public about ...
In a temporary softening of relations between the U.S. and Iran, the two countries agreed to a prisoner swap on Saturday. Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang was freed by Iran on Saturday after serving three ...
In late November, U.S. navy personnel boarded an unmarked ship and found a cache of missile parts that the U.S. claims are Iranian made and bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen. U.S. naval forces in ...
“We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and ...
In an attempt to modernize and improve the appearance of Egypt, the government is moving to replace tuk-tuks with minivans but could devastate an off-the-grid economy while doing so. Egyptian transportation authorities are considering a ...
The government Iraqis are protesting against today is still led by the same gang of U.S.-backed Iraqi exiles who wove a web of lies to stage-manage the invasion of their own country in 2003. As ...
“We should establish security in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz through expanding our cooperation and preventing foreign powers to interfere.” – Iranian President Rouhani. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Tuesday his country’s willingness ...
After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle ...
“From the Gaza Strip, under Israel’s occupation and siege, we salute the students with Brown Divest and all those involved in this victory. It represents an important US university precedent.” A Brown University committee voted ...
An alleged Douma chemical weapons attack drummed up support for U.S. intervention in Syria in 2018, but how reliable is the official report on what actually took place that day? An email leaked by Wikileaks ...
A family mourns the loss of nine after a recent Israeli airstrike struck a civilian home in Gaza in a case of possible mistaken identity. At her asbestos-roofed home in the central Gaza Strip city ...
A second release of Yemen prisoners of war in two months brings hope that the Yemen War is nearing an end. The Saudi-led Arab military coalition, which has been at war with the Yemen Houthi ...
Protests in Iraq continue to escalate as protesters call for government resignations on charges of corruption, poor public services, and pervasive Iranian influence in Iraqi affairs. At least sixteen Iraqi demonstrators were reportedly killed on ...
“Progressives will not support the National Defense Authorization bill if we do not have this amendment that brings the war in Yemen to an end.”—Rep. Ro Khanna (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) With Congress set ...
“The biased American policy toward Israel, and the American support of the Israeli settlements and the Israeli occupation, leaves us with only one option: to go back to resistance.” Thousands of Palestinians in several West ...
“If there is no reaction to Zalat’s arrest, they will come for someone else, then another, and another. So, if you’re reading this, whether you’re a Twitter user or a newspaper editor – right now ...
Mohammed Dahlan, a strongman figure of Palestine’s Fatah party, is wanted by Turkey for his alleged involvement in a 2016 failed coup. Turkish authorities announced a reward last week of $700,000 for anybody who could ...
In 2017 Yemen was ranked as the worst place in the world to be a woman. As the war continues to ravage the nation, Yemen women continue to suffer atrocities in silence. Disclaimer – names ...
![Film producer and real-estate investor Mohamed Ali Abdel Khaleq at a press conference in London organised by Egypt Watch on 20 November 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1-4-288x180.jpg "Egyptian Whistleblower, Mohamed Ali, Announces Movement to Oust Sisi 20")
After instigating protests across Egypt last September, Mohamed Ali is spearheading a new movement to restore democracy to Egypt and bring down Egypt’s President Sisi. Former Egyptian army building contractor and actor, Mohamed Ali, who ...
After much reluctance, the U.K. has decided to repatriate from northeastern Syria the first group of children left orphaned by the Syrian War. In an unprecedented move, the British government announced on Thursday that it ...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces three serious criminal charges in what could be a major blow to his political career. Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday indicted the sitting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
“Israel is building illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are still considered occupied territories. This kills any alleged ‘peace process.’ There is no more 2 state solution.” U.S. Secretary of State ...
“Today’s vote indicates that the U.N.R.W.A. plays a major role in serving millions of Palestinian refugees and that the latest U.S.’ stance against such a vital U.N. organ is being rejected by majority of world ...
In what some are calling a new Arab Spring, popular protests have swept across multiple Arab nations including Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and now Kuwait. On Thursday, the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Jaber al-Sabah, ...
Tuesday morning Palestinians were awoken with the news that Israel launched two airstrikes on leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one and killing family members of both. Angry Palestinian crowds in Gaza, including ...
Palestinian political factions, including the rival major parties Fatah and Hamas, are tentatively calling for general Palestine elections for both the parliament and presidency. In a letter sent by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to all ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
A Houthi attack on the port town of Makha could impact a UN-mediated ceasefire in the Hodeida district. Makha is said to be a main entry point for humanitarian aid to Yemen. Officials within the ...
The United Nations is reportedly close to identifying the responsible party in an attack on a migrant camp in Libya that killed dozens last July. In July of this year, the Tajoura migration concentration camp ...
The United Nations has repeatedly said that sanctions are not a humane policy and must no longer be allowed to be part of the arsenal of the powerful nations. In late October, Human Rights Watch ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of bearing responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Sudanese soldiers during the Yemen War. In a televised press conference over the weekend, a spokesperson for the Yemen-based ...
Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza ...
Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West ...
The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President ...
While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White Helmets. This group has been at the heart of the regime-change war on the country, partnering with ...
Turkish and Russian troops will begin patrolling a 5-mile zone along the Turkish border. Both Turkish and Russian military officials agreed on Wednesday to begin jointly patrolling areas in northwest Syria by this Friday. According ...
Trump said Washington is mulling over Syria’s oil reserves. Meanwhile, he has put across a tantalizing proposition for Erdogan to ponder over. The morning after a summit meeting often holds surprises. Turkey lost no time ...
For the second time since Monday, an assassination attempt targeted Ministers in the official Yemen government. A large explosion ripped through a convoy for Yemen Defense Minister Mohammad al-Maqdishi on Tuesday, which involved several ministerial ...
“On behalf of every Muslim I know…every Muslim watching…good riddance to Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.” The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US operation in northern Syria on Saturday night only ...
In a new wave of nationwide protests in Iraq on Friday, more than 20 Iraqi protesters were reportedly killed and a few thousand others injured. Iraqi riot police clashed with demonstrators in the capital of ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
US troops may be on the move, but instead of returning to the U.S. they are being redeployed to other regions in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump signaled on Monday his country’s plan ...
If the U.S. policy in Syria in recent years promoted the Kurdish identity, it has now swung to the other extreme of stoking the fires of Turkish revanchism. The extraordinary U.S. overture to Turkey regarding ...
If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and ...
“The people want the downfall of the regime” chant Lebanese protesters in a second consecutive day of popular unrest. Tens of thousands of Lebanese residents continued protests for the second day in a row, on ...
The US Senator’s legislation is the latest manifestation of Western opposition to the Turkish operation on Kurdish forces in Syria. (By MEMO) A US Senator introduced legislation on Thursday in the Senate to provide US ...
Over the past month, Saudi Arabia, which has focused on fighting back the allegedly Iran-backed Houthi rebels, has been hosting indirect talks between Mansour and the STC. Media reports suggested on Wednesday that the internationally ...
“Russia sees the expansion of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with Saudi Arabia as particularly important.” On Monday, October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since 2007, ...
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