Turkey Police confirmed this Tuesday that it found evidence in Saudi consulate that Khashoggi was killed there. It all began on October 2, when Jamal Khashoggi, one of the Washington Post’s most prominent columnists and ...
News has surfaced that Saudi Arabia is now ready to admit to the brutal murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after Turkey confirmed it had both footage and recordings of his death. Sources close ...
Demands for transparency from Saudi Arabia following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi are putting the Trump administration in an awkward situation. Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist who strangely vanished in the kingdom’s consulate ...
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently signed a 10-year $450 million deal to host events within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deal initially received tepid critique from those questioning the company doing business with a ...
Turkish officials say Saudi Arabia dismembered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia and the royal family. Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who was a columnist for the Washington Post, walked ...
After a ruling by the ICJ that angered the U.S., the country is now looking at pulling out of all international agreements that expose them to ICJ jurisdiction. Last Wednesday, the Trump administration pulled out ...
What happens when the King’s men disavow the regime? Well, in Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy they get kidnapped, imprisoned, most likely questioned, and should they have applied themselves to offending the king: they will be ...
A leaked memo reveals U.S. support of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen was made to preserve a U.S.-Saudi weapons deal. America’s role in Yemen has more to do with war profiteering than any self-professed desire ...
Saudi Arabia has tried to change the public perception of women’s rights in the country, but some have accused the country of merely pushing a PR campaign and not instituting real change. A lower court ...
Will a four-nation summit in Germany resolve the ongoing crisis in the Idlib province of Syria and will rebel groups abide by any “buffer zone”? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to hold a meeting ...
With so many dangerous unknowns revolving around the MKO/MEK and its proclivity to shed blood, Washington’s wholehearted support boggles the mind. Strong on the legitimacy his office grants him U.S. State Department Mike Pompeo was ...
Justification for the Yemen War and U.S. support of Saudi Arabia’s assault on the Yemeni people is sold on many fronts, but what is the real truth? Barely a state, even before its sovereignty was ...
Russian officials have accused the United States of using banned phosphorous bombs in an attack on Syria on Saturday. It marks the latest is a series of escalations between the United States and Russia bringing ...
(RadioFreeEurope) Israel’s defense chief has warned that his country will seek to “destroy any Iranian military presence” in Syria, where Tehran has intervened to prop up its ally President Bashar al-Assad in a war that ...
The United Nations and the European Union among others are asking Israel to halt plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin community in the West Bank. For nearly a decade, Israeli courts had prevented the government ...
The Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates (UAE) stated that a bus bombing in Yemen last month that killed 51 (40 of whom were children) could not be justified. Both countries admit a mistake in the attack. ...
A 41-page report prepared for the United Nations Human Rights Council blames all coalition members to the ongoing war in Yemen for human rights violations in the country. The report says the Yemeni government, the ...
On Friday the U.S. State Department announced that Washington would cut more than $200 million in aid to Palestine. A senior official in the State Department said that the funds which were initially planned for ...
(AntiWar) Saudi warplanes attacked a school bus in northern Yemen on Thursday, hitting the bus just as it was passing through a crowded marketplace. At least 50 civilians were killed in the attack, mostly schoolchildren, and ...
Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, is planning to invite Yemen’s conflicting parties to Geneva on September 6 in hopes of a peace negotiation. A Strive for Peace During the U.N. Security ...
Humanitarian efforts are currently under serious threats in war-torn Yemen. Major parts of the country are reeling from the devastating results of a long, drawn-out war between government forces backed by foreign nations and local ...
A new report from Amnesty International called “God only knows if he’s alive” confirmed and detailed prison abuses in Yemen carried out by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a U.S. backed alley. In 2017 the Associated ...
On Thursday, the Israeli parliament or Knesset passed a controversial bill that declares Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people” and that the right to national self-determination is “unique to the Jewish people.” ...
On July 6, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released a preliminary report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syria last April that killed 78 civilians. The report stated ...
The Syrian government has appealed to fleeing refugees to return home. With over 5.6 million people fleeing violence in the war-torn country, Bashar al-Assad’s administration called on millions of displaced citizens to return to the ...
(RFE/RL) Close allies of U.S. President Donald Trump have told a “Free Iran” rally in Paris that the end of the Iranian regime is near and that sanctions against the country will be “greater, greater, ...
Israel recently proposed a law to make it a criminal offense to record videos of Israeli soldiers. Last Sunday the bill was approved by Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation, but they demanded significant changes before ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was very direct with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their last meeting: Iran must withdraw from Syria or the Russian ally risks being attacked directly. Netanyahu told his Cabinet that ...
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition launched an attack on Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, a rebel stronghold with a population of roughly 600,000 in the area. Many humanitarian agencies strongly warned of a possible major ...
In an interview with the Daily Mail, President Bashar Assad of Syria accused the West of fueling the Syrian war in an attempt topple his government. He specifically said Britain, France and the United States ...
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to provide a $2.5 billion economic package to Jordan, aimed at solving the economic crisis that triggered anti-austerity protests across the country for the past ...
The Argentina soccer team has canceled an international friendly soccer game which they were set to play with Israel this coming Saturday in Jerusalem following pressure from Palestinian rights activists. The two sides were set ...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has no obligations to save Israel if a war between the Jewish state and Iran occurs, as NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Der Spiegel last Saturday. Israel is not ...
During a special session on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council enacted a resolution that allows the international body to send a commission to the Gaza Strip to investigate human rights violations. Only the ...
In contrast to White House refusal to condemn Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council denounced the massacre and slammed Israel for repeatedly violating international law. (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) After making the widely condemned ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to further discuss the impact of sanctions against Iran on firms operating in the Islamic country. The leaders previously had a telephone conversation that ...
Syrian government denounced the Israeli bombing campaign as “aggressive conduct” that “will lead to nothing but an increase in tensions in the region.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) Dramatically escalating the risk of an all-out ...
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced they have identified 20 rockets launched by Iran directed at Israeli posts on the Golan Heights. Conflicting reports are coming out about whether Iranian or Syrian forces launched the strikes ...
Iran-backed Hezbollah, Amal and their allies claimed victory in Lebanese parliamentary election last Sunday, the first ballot after 2009, preliminary results showed. Hezbollah and Amal dubbed a “Shia duo” by local media outlets gained 67 ...
The world’s crude oil prices traded two percent higher on Wednesday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Washington would pull out of the Iran nuclear treaty on Tuesday. Washington’s move to exit the 2015 ...
As most expected, Donald Trump announced today that he was pulling the U.S. out of the Iran Deal today. Trump cited the “murderous” Iranian regime and touted America’s support of the “long-suffering people of Iran”. ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 9. They are going to discuss “the latest development in the region” amid the Iran-related intensified ...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of telling lies about their nuclear weapons program. The Jewish state leader, who is under investigation for corruption-related charges in Israel, made a dramatic presentation using ...
In Afghanistan, the funerals have begun for the 10 journalists killed on Monday—the deadliest day for journalists since the Afghan War began in 2001. Nine journalists died in a double suicide bombing attack in Kabul, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been busy over the past few days hosting an array of European state guests. On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington to meet the billionaire president in a three-hour ...
56 people were killed in a three-day airstrike launched by a Saudi-backed coalition in Yemen. That number includes women, children and guests of a wedding party. The Hajja attack came several days after coalition air ...
Last Friday evening, early Saturday morning Syria time, the United States along with the U.K. and France launched airstrikes against Syria. The coordinated strikes were in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of ...
Oil prices could soon soar to $100 per barrel amid growing fear about conflict in the Middle East, according to an oil analyst for CNBC. “I don’t think it is unfeasible to see triple-digit oil prices ...
This past Sunday, April 8, 2018, there was an alleged chemical attack on the rebel-controlled city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus. The alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria is pushing the world ...