Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
“ISIS has already rebuilt its forces and it’s moving to the offensive … only this time militants are better trained, better equipped, and they are no longer interested in engaging the military in frontal attacks ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 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 ...
“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 ...
“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 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 ...
After an air raid killed a civilian Tuesday night confusion abounds as to who exactly is responsible. Official sources in Syria confirmed on Wednesday the killing of a civilian in the village of Rashidia, an ...
Despite announcing the defeat of ISIS in Iraq in 2017, Iraq is still fighting the militant group in pockets of the country. Iraqi forces, supported by U.S. air forces, launched an intensive military campaign on ...
The U.S. “war on terror” was actually the catalyst for al-Qaida’s growth. (By Christian Taylor, The Conversation) Al-Qaida has recruited an estimated 40,000 fighters since Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group ...
“And the continuing detention of individuals not suspected of crimes, in the absence of lawful basis and regular independent judicial review, is not acceptable.” Michelle Bachelet, the chief of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR), ...
After declaring the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to be beefing up security forces in Eastern Syria. Saudi Arabia plans to create a military group in eastern Syria with ...
“What I saw was a lot of misinterpretation and wanting conflict coming from the administration and intelligence community. Intel doesn’t show existential threats. Even what it shows, it doesn’t show threats to U.S. interests.”—Ruben Gallego ...
In a sign that peace and normalcy are returning to Syria, commercial flights between Iraq and Syria will resume this week. Iraqi authorities decided Thursday to resume air flights with Syria, following an eight-year suspension ...
Taking out a terrorist group’s leaders or conquering its physical territory “is not the same as undermining its ideology or destroying its raison d’être.” Indian intelligence services warned Sri Lankan officials about a suspect in ...
Citizen Truth has covered the influence of the military industrial complex has on the Pentagon and politicians within the United States. On Saturday the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stated the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
As the Syrian War nears an end, the question of repatriation of United Kingdom and United States’ citizens becomes more critical. Earlier this month, I wrote about the case of Shamima Begum, the 19-year old ...
Shamima Begum, the 19-year old ISIS bride, wants to come home. On February 19, news broke in the UK that Shamima Begum, the 19-year old ISIS bride, who, back in 2015 chose to flee the ...
Cybercrime, ISIS, climate change, tense relations between international countries all top the list of a Pew poll on the greatest threats facing us in 2019. According to a survey released on February 11 by the ...
In a controversial move, Iraq appointed an education minister with well-known ties to ISIS. A relatively new democracy, Iraq has had over the past decade to overcome more internal crises, roadblocks and threats to its ...
Many Americans, tend to believe that the problems in the Middle-East are due to the culture of the people there as well as radical Islamic leaders who base their ideology on radical Islamic theology. However, ...
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 ...
Here we are again, another run-up to another war in the Middle East. As the mainstream media remains obsessive over the latest Stormy Daniels-Trump related controversy or James Comey’s immature book tour, the winds of ...
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 ...
A 21-year-old New Jersey resident, George Lepsky, has pleaded guilty to attempting to aid the radical Islamic group ISIS. George Lepsky pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, to one ...
Terrorism in the Balkans becomes an increasing worry as official reports claim rural communities in the Balkans are popping up and may be home to thousands of ISIS sympathizers. The number of potential terrorists and ...
Kidnapped Boko Haram girls are given a choice: get married or go on a “mission” and most never make it back from the mission. The outlawed insurgent group, Boko Haram, has changed its modus operandi ...
Operation Pacific Eagle: Does a seemingly innocuous operation name change signify intensified U.S. counterterrorism operations in the Philippines. In the 3rd week of January of this year, it was announced that the U.S. military operation ...
In April 2014, the world woke up to the news that Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria had been kidnapped 276 school girls. It was horrifying, shocking and outrageous. There was a global ...
In Yemen 8 million people face food shortages and someone just killed the former President. Many fear that the killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh will open the floodgates for ISIS affiliated militants. The tension in the ...
Strikes Damaged Electricity Generator at Raqqa Hospital (AntiWar.com, Jason Ditz) New reports out of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa say US airstrikes hit a number of residential districts in the city over the course ...
Doug McKenty of The Shift was kind enough to invite us on his show last week! We talk with Doug about the deceitful nature of corporate propaganda, waking up to it, and living in a ...
CNN Hired Alleged Al-Qaeda Propagandist For Documentary, Is This Another CNN Cover Up? In June 2017, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory named Bilal Abdul Kareem expressed frustration with a former ...
Israel Attacks Syrian Military Positions, Syria Issues Warnings The On Sunday June 25th 2017, Israel attacked the Syrian government. The attack by Israel was a result of stray fire between the Syrian government, Al Nusra ...
There was a big debate on our Facebook page recently about attitudes towards Muslims so we addressed the points people brought up: Islam, is it a violent religion? Media and polls: what to believe? What ...
After a June 7th 2017 terrorist attack in Tehran Iran, the government of Iran came out to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for supporting terrorism. President Trump expressed grief but immediately after said ...
In a recent video, the White Helmets legitimacy of a humanitarian group is further under scrutiny. In the video, Al Qaeda leader Tahrir al-Sham is recorded praising the White Helmets as “hidden soldiers of a revolution”. ...
(Reprinted with permission from ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed, Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi) In June 2014, around the time ISIS was making headlines across the world, the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group had 4,000 fighters in ...
The 2011 intervention in Libya was sparked by the US condemning the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan government. The official justification for the intervention was that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who had ...
A UK-trained doctor, who was hailed a hero for treating gas attack victims in Syria, stood trial on terror offences and allegedly belonged to the group that kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie. At least 86 ...
Should we give the White Helmets a Nobel Peace Prize or are they the propaganda arm of ISIS in Syria? Trying to sort through the mess of information and news these days to find the truth ...
We have all heard about the Benghazi attack that happened in 2012. There was a “witch hunt” to determine who was at fault for the deaths of the 4 Americans in the attack. The deaths ...
Want to know how terrorists are created? Let’s talk about it. I won’t be talking about the funding and the logistics here. That is a whole other topic. This is about the mindset. How does ...
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