The Marxist-Leninist PKK, founded in 1978, may be an enemy of the Turkish state, but it is also one of the most feminist movements in the Middle East. (By Haidar Khezri, The Conversation) Kurdish fighters ...
“The protection of ISIS prisons will not remain our priority. The defense of our soil will be prioritized if [the] Turkish military continues its attacks.” Local authorities report that at least 750 people suspected of ...
“Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that he was ‘trying to end the endless wars?’ That was yesterday.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Less than a day after President Donald Trump bragged to supporters at a ...
On the heels of reportedly successful talks between opposing factions in Yemen, the UAE has withdrawn troops from a key Yemen port city. Yemeni officials, speaking anonymously to Bloomberg, announced they observed the withdrawal of ...
“Pray for our Kurdish allies who have been shamelessly abandoned by the Trump Administration. This move ensures the reemergence of ISIS.” News that the Turkish army, using aircraft and artillery, launched a massive military operation ...
After US President Trump suggested he would not come to the aid of Kurdish allies in Syria, Turkey has launched a military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The Turkish army, using aircraft and ...
The big picture is that the regional Middle Eastern states are coming under pressure to sort out their differences and disputes through their own initiatives. U.S. President Donald Trump is not known to practice judo. ...
Turkey looks to be preparing to enter Syria for a major military operation against the SDF, while the U.S. has announced it will not defend the SDF despite their alliance in the U.S. war on ...
At least one foreign agent simultaneously held a U.S. government appointment while being paid to represent Saudi interests as a foreign agent. (By Anna Massoglia, Center for Responsive Politics) Foreign influence and lobbying spending targeting the United States ...
After four days of protests in Iraq, dozens of protesters are dead and many more wounded sparking calls for the Iraqi government to step down. International media reports said on Friday that the death toll ...
Egypt released six foreigners accused of supporting terrorism and fomenting public unrest for their participation in the anti-Sisi protests that rippled through Egypt in late September. On Thursday, Egyptian authorities released six foreigners who were ...
“Evidence, proof and witnesses against them are in this region, and we can prosecute them.” Officials in the Kurdish-led region of north-eastern Syria are calling for an international war crimes tribunal to be held for ...
“The greed of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and BlackRock is insatiable.” Last year, top executives and investors protested the annual investment conference in Saudi Arabia known as ‘Davos in the Desert’ after the savage execution ...
As impeachment proceedings against Trump ramp up, could he turn to declaring war on Iran in a move to provide distraction? On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of ...
“It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the U.S.A. continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen’s devastating conflict.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.S. made bombs killed six Yemeni civilians on June 28, including ...
For the first time since Sisi assumed power after leading the military’s overthrowal of former President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 Egyptian citizens took to the streets calling for the end of Sisi’s reign. Protests ripped ...
“My son and his friends were killed by the Americans. How could they do this to us?” A U.S. drone strike killed 30 farmers and workers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province who were resting after harvesting ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
“I think there actually is a pretty decent argument to be made that this actually is one of Israel’s most momentous elections.” Israel’s second election in five months has resulted in an impasse, with Benny ...
If Americans fail to speak out now, we may discover too late that our failure to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class has led us to the brink of World War III. On Saturday, ...
An attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities has renewed fears of a looming US-Iran conflict, despite claims of responsibility by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Devastating drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil facilities on Saturday ...
In response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump has announced that the U.S. is locked and loaded to retaliate. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that his country is ready to ...
“I don’t think the Israelis were spying on us. My relationship with Israel has been great…Anything is possible, but I don’t believe it.” On Thursday, Politico reported that the U.S. government determined Israel likely planted ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators condemned Saudi Arabia’s failure to provide financial aid to war-torn Yemen in a letter sent directly to the Saudi royal family. In a letter spearheaded by Sen. Chris Murphy ...
At the time, Israel’s disengagement from Gaza 14 years ago seemed hopeful and significant, but little has improved for Palestinians and now Israel threatens annexation. September 12, 2005, is an especially a significant day for ...
A week before Israel heads to the polls to determine the country’s and Netanyahu’s future, Netanyahu made a bold vow to annex West Bank territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday his intention ...
Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a uranium enrichment program, but can the U.S. embrace a nuclear Saudi Arabia after exiting the Iran Deal? While attending a conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Saudi Arabi’s ...
An airstrike Sunday night targeted pro-Iran factions in Syria, while the party responsible is unknown, the strike fits a pattern of recent Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
It is not enough to be moved by the tragedy in Yemen. Action is necessary. On September 1, bombers struck Dhamar Community College in Dhamar City, which is in Yemen’s southwest. The college has not ...
#WeAreAllIsraa trended on social media as activists mourned and expressed outrage over the murder and alleged honor killing of a 21-year-old Palestinian woman. Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman from the West Bank town of ...
Last week, tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border escalated when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli military targets after accusations that Israel attacked Beirut with drones. A weekend exchange of fire has not helped de-escalation efforts. The ...
Previously, the Saudi-led coalition has come under sharp criticism by rights groups for killing hundreds of civilians during raids and attacks in Yemen. In a new fresh attack by the Saudi-led Arab military coalition in ...
Turkey is insisting on plowing ahead with a planned safe zone in northeastern Syria, despite accusing the U.S. of dragging its heels. On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted on going ahead and rapidly ...
A spokesman for the Islamist Hamas party pointed fingers at the Palestinian Authority in the wake of two suicide bombings in Gaza. On Tuesday, the ruling Hamas party in Gaza declared a state of emergency ...
“The Lebanese government sees it best to avoid any sliding of the situation towards a dangerous escalation but this requires the international community affirming its rejection of this blatant violation.” Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced ...
Thursday’s fighting in Yemen constituted the latest spate of violence between Saudi Arabia-backed government-loyal troops and the militias linked with the Southern Transitional Council. Saudi Arabian-backed Yemeni forces belonging to the internationally recognized government of ...
Since January, Idlib has been administered by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance, which is led by extremists from Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate. The Chinese envoy to the conflict in Syria, Xie Xiaoyan voiced on Tuesday ...
An Iranian tanker seized and held by the U.K. for 46 days was recently released, but will voices within the Trump administration pressure President Trump into “making a move” on the tanker? At 11:30 p.m. ...
Multiple Americans who attended an annual Iranian-backed conference critical of U.S.-Isreal policy reported threatening visits from the FBI in recent months. According to three U.S. former government or military officials, the U.S. Federal Bureau of ...
The Syrian Army has retaken more villages in Idlib as it advances toward the rebel stronghold of Khan Sheikhoun. Syrian army sources confirmed on Thursday that the Syrian Army retook two villages in the southern ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
As the Muslim world marks Eid al-Adha, the Palestinian residents in Gaza face economic hardships that make it difficult for them to observe the occasion smoothly or normally. Eid al-Adha or the “Festival of Sacrifice” ...
“Israel, in particular, allowed the transfer of arms covered by the ATT (Arms Trade Treaty) at a time when it had knowledge, or ought to have had knowledge, that they would be used in the ...
“The United States has walked into a corner. By sanctioning Iran, it has suggested that it is not interested in diplomacy.” Word of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ...
“The agreement constitutes a partnership between US and Turkey over aggression against Syria that would serve the interest of the Israeli occupation entity. It also reflects how evasive and misleading the policies of the Turkish ...
The statement revealed that the Israeli government endorsed construction of 2,400 housing units in existing Israeli settlements in C areas this week. It also highlighted that the expansion of existing settlements has been going unabated ...
“The car was going in the wrong direction when it collided with seven cars, parking in front of the NIC. The collision caused the car to detonate and led to a huge explosion that left ...
![Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud participates in the Counter-ISIL Ministerial Joint Ministerial Plenary Session, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mbs-288x180.jpg "Saudi Arabia to Host Media Forum One Year After Khashoggi Murder 47")
“The murder of Jamal Khashoggi caused extensive damage to Saudi Arabia’s international image, marking a real low point for a country that has one of the world’s worst press freedom records.” Saudi Arabia will stage ...
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is off on a Middle East tour possibly ahead of an Arab states conference at Camp David. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his country’s support for a Palestinian-Israeli peace ...
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