Exxon Mobil is looking to become the first major oil company to move into Israel, despite the risk of worsening relations with other Middle Eastern countries. (Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp is considering exploring for oil ...
Soldiers also engaged in cover-ups by disguising civilians as militants to make operations appear legitimate. The Middle East Eye report revealed how junior officers in the British army were taught to specifically shoot such civilians ...
A new law passed by Congress again cuts United States’ funding for Palestine. Thanks to a bill passed last year in Congress, the U.S. just ended its roughly $60 million annual financial support of Palestine, ...
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury.
Citizen Truth journalist Catherine Shakdam reports on the US detainment of Iranian American journalist Marzieh Hashemi and the movement to #FreeMarzieh. News broke this Tuesday of the arrest of prominent US-born Iranian TV anchor, Marzieh Hashemi, ...
“If Secretary Pompeo wants regional stability, human rights, and an end to U.S. military adventures and endless wars, he would press his boss to return to the Iran deal, pursue and facilitate good-faith diplomacy among ...
US wants to ensure security for Kurdish allies before completely withdrawing its troops from Syria, but Turkey opposes Washington’s request. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, Turkey requested the US hand over 16 US military bases in ...
Where are American troops? Amid news that the United States of America is recalling its troops from Syria following a decision by the White House that ISIS had been defeated, thus rendering America’s presence moot, ...
A US withdrawal will mean that lucrative Syrian territories, about one-third of the whole of Syria, will be earmarked for a takeover. If US President Donald Trump has been the subject of much contention since ...
“This vote immediately diminishes U.S. political support for the war and puts more pressure on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end their brutal tactics and negotiate an end to the war.” (Common ...
The Arbaeen pilgrimage is the world’s largest public gathering and held every year in Iraq, but relatively few know anything about it. October 30 marked the culmination of the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq – an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
So why is the US really messing around with Iran? In a word, control. By controlling Iran, which contains a huge percentage of the world’s oil reserves, at least for now, the US can control ...
(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 ...
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 Friday, ABC Australia reported that the U.S. would launch a missile attack on Iran as early as next month. The report stemmed from President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet in response to Iranian President Hassan ...
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.” ...
In 1974, a legendary bond trader from Salomon Brothers brokered a covert do-or-die deal that would reshape U.S. – Saudi relations for generations, and not become public knowledge until a report from Bloomberg in 2016. ...
(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, ...
On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Trump’s travel ban on five Muslim countries, a ruling that angered many Muslims in America and around the world. In February 2Presidentsidet Trump invoked an executive order to ...
The Arab Coalition, after the victory over Iran-backed Houthi militants in the city of Hodeidah, will hand the largest Yemeni port to the Yemeni government, Salem Ahmed Al-Kaabi, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Ukraine, stated. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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”. ...
U.S. exiting deal would bring ‘historic regret’ to the US, Iran’s Rouhani warned. (Common Dreams, by Andrea Germanos) President Donald Trump just announced that he’ll deliver his decision Tuesday on whether to withdraw the United States ...
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 ...
The German government has pledged to accept more than 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. The country’s acceptance of refugees is a commitment to resettling those considered particularly vulnerable. The European Union ...
A bride was among those killed at a wedding party, and at least 45 were wounded according to reports. (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Weeks after President Donald Trump thanked Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince for his ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trump Strikes Syria On this Friday, April the 13th, President Trump launched a direct attack against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians last week. This strike on ...
Tensions in Syria are escalating once again and war hawks are cheering on the idea of the U.S. sending missiles into Syria to take out President Bashar al-Assad, the evil Syrian dictator, and his military. ...
Bolton to Head Security Council Meeting Discussing War on Syria (AntiWar) President Donald Trump vowed a “big price” would be paid by Syria for an alleged weapons attack Saturday. The attack, supposedly against the city of Douma, ...
We look back at one infamous moment in John McCain’s career when he was recorded on tape singing an ‘alternative’ version of the Beach Boys classic “Barbara Ann.” Early on in his 2008 presidential ...
With call-in action and letters, groups ramp up pressure on lawmakers to back Sanders-led resolution. (Common Dreams, Andrea Germanos) Anti-war groups on Friday are urging their supporters to pick up the phone to tell U.S. senators ...
After the outbreak of protests in Iran three weeks ago, several major corporate media outlets ran stories on the protests using pictures claiming to be from the Iranian protests. Too bad they used the wrong ...
Mike Pence’s Middle East Visit: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence concluded his four-day Middle East visit to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel amid tension in the region and a government shutdown that occurred during his trip. ...