Saturday, December 29, 2012

Erdoğan ordered the Turkish Air Force strike that killed 34 civilians

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the Turkish Air Force to strike 34 people in Uludere last year based on intelligence that there was...

Friday, December 28, 2012

Iran starts navy drills in Hormuz Strait

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Iran has started six days of naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz. The official IRNA news agency says the manoeuvres began early Friday,...

A very rough guide to Hell

    Friday, December 28, 2012   No comments

Why visit? Hell’s landscape is unrivalled. Its bottomless ravines, towering mountains and fiery floods have inspired artists for centuries. Pandemonium, the capital (formerly black...

Hell: Into everlasting fire

    Friday, December 28, 2012   No comments

TO MANY in the West, Hell is just a medieval relic. It went out with ducking stools and witchcraft. It should have disappeared with...

The governments of Turkey, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan play a dangerous game

    Friday, December 28, 2012   No comments

SNAKING their way from Kirkuk, a city 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, through Kurdistan and across Turkey’s eastern region of Anatolia to...

Looting, feuds and divided loyalties threaten to destroy unity of fighters as war enters new phase

    Friday, December 28, 2012   No comments

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Aleppo It wasn't the government that killed the Syrian rebel commander Abu Jameel. It was the fight for his loot. The...

Thursday, December 27, 2012

When Bahrain Said: Get Lost

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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF BAHRAIN, one of America’s more repressive allies, tries to keep many journalists and human rights monitors out. I recently tried...

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Britain covered up ‘Nazi-style’ slaughter of Mau Mau inmates

    Tuesday, December 04, 2012   No comments

ATTEMPTS by British colonial authorities to cover up the killings of 11 prisoners during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya have been laid bare...

Mali civilians vow to take up arms against Islamist extremi

    Tuesday, December 04, 2012   No comments

Mali Sitting on the roof of his mud-walled compound on a hillside near Bamako, Amadou Maiga is dreaming of war. As the spokesman for...

Monday, December 3, 2012

Why Tunisia ignored sharia law

    Monday, December 03, 2012   No comments

The Arab Spring countries of North Africa are struggling to balance their secular and Islamic roots, but the leader of Tunisia’s ruling party thinks...

Despite Sanctions, Tehran Provides Treatment for Poisonous-Reptile Bites to Coalition Soldiers in Afghanistan

    Monday, December 03, 2012   No comments

Iran CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan—Relations between Iran and the U.S. are poisonous, with one exception: an antidote for snake bites. In a surprising—and irony-rich—byproduct of...

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Briefing on Syria, General Assembly

    Saturday, December 01, 2012   No comments

Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Briefing on Syria, General Assembly 30 Nov 2012 - Briefing by Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations...

Sunday, November 25, 2012

THE RISE OF A PHARAOH: THE ARAB SPRING’S FIRST DICTATOR

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by Nezar AlSayyad President Mohammed Husni Morsi Tantawi Mubarak Over the course of the past two years, the Arab World celebrated the fall of...

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Hamas in the New Middle East

    Saturday, November 24, 2012   No comments

“I salute all people of the Arab Spring, or Islamic winter, and I salute the Syrian people who seek freedom, democracy and reform.” Hamas...

FSA armed groups clash with Kurds near Turkey

    Saturday, November 24, 2012   No comments

Syrian rebels attacked army positions in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday while Islamist fighters clashed with Kurdish militias on the border with...

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Syria's Kurdish leader rejects new opposition, labels it Turkey proxy

    Wednesday, November 21, 2012   No comments

Saleh Muslim, head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) A party that controls much of Syria's Kurdish region on Tuesday rejected the new opposition...

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

CHP to PM: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should suspend the activities of NATO’s radar base in eastern Turkey

    Tuesday, November 20, 2012   No comments

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should suspend the activities of NATO’s radar base in eastern Turkey if he is really sincere in his harsh...

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Israel targets journalists, media buildings in Gaza

    Sunday, November 18, 2012   No comments

By Ernesto Londoño, Karin Brulliard and Abigail Hauslohner, Updated: Sunday, November 18, 7:40 AM TEL AVIV — The Israeli military struck two buildings used...

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Iraqi president: Turkey failed to accurately read Syria

    Saturday, November 17, 2012   No comments

In an assessment of Turkey's Middle East policy, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said Ankara failed to understand the situation in Syria, misjudging the...

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Morocco activists slam African migrant treatment

    Saturday, November 10, 2012   No comments

RABAT, Morocco — Dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists demonstrated Friday in front of a Rabat courthouse where a Guinean advocate for sub-Saharan migrants...

Friday, November 9, 2012

Erdoğan criticizing UNSC, IMF, OSCE, and OECD

    Friday, November 09, 2012   No comments

Throwing diplomacy out the window, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized major world institutions, bashing both the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Assad's interview with Russia Today

    Friday, November 09, 2012   No comments

Assad: Erdogan thinks he's Caliph, new sultan of the Ottoman (EXCLUSIVE) . In an exclusive interview with RT, President Bashar Assad said that the...

Missteps by Rebels Erode Their Support Among Syrians

    Friday, November 09, 2012   No comments

Rebels firing on a man suspected of being a pro-government fighter in Idlib Province on Oct. 26. Syria's rebel fighters — who have long staked...

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Will Erdogan do nothing to save the lives of Kurdish hunger strikers?

    Thursday, November 08, 2012   No comments

If you knew that more than 700 of your citizens might die soon, what would you do to stop it? That is the question...

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Syria's rebels: Fewer innocents

    Wednesday, November 07, 2012   No comments

A RECENT video showing a group of rebels kicking men, bound with ropes, before killing them has raised concerns about Syria’s opposition fighters. The...

Friday, October 26, 2012

Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president

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Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president ...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Russia: US coordinates weapon deliveries to Syria rebels

    Thursday, October 25, 2012   No comments

Russia today accused Washington of "coordinating" deliveries of arms to Syrian rebels, despite assurances by the State Department that the United States provides no...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Remembering the Paris massacre 50 years on

    Wednesday, October 17, 2012   No comments

Protesters gathered in central Paris to mark fifty years since a deadly police crackdown on Algerian anti-war protesters, one of the darkest days in...

The Paris massacre that time forgot, 51 years on

    Wednesday, October 17, 2012   No comments

Fifty-one years to the day, French President François Hollande has recognised the October 17, 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi...

Libya: New Proof of Mass Killings at Gaddafi Death Site

    Wednesday, October 17, 2012   No comments

New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar...

Monday, October 15, 2012

Turkey should readjust its policies in Syria, says Yakış

    Monday, October 15, 2012   No comments

Regarding Turkey's foreign policy in the Middle East and particularly in Syria, Yaşar Yakış, a former minister of foreign affairs and the president of...

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria

    Monday, October 15, 2012   No comments

By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups...

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Syria, Turkey, Israel and the Greater Middle East Energy War

    Sunday, October 14, 2012   No comments

By F. William Engdahl On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used...

Hitched to Qatar's rising star, Al Jazeera takes a bumpy ride skyward

    Sunday, October 14, 2012   No comments

By Elizabeth Dickinson It’s mid-afternoon as Al Anstey, managing director of Al Jazeera English, takes a brief respite from the news to recall a...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Turkey's opposition leader calls FM 'an idiot'

    Tuesday, October 09, 2012   No comments

Main oppoisiton Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu slammed Turkey's foreign policy decisions today, calling Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu "an idiot," daily Hürriyet...

US Protestants no longer a majority, says study

    Tuesday, October 09, 2012   No comments

For the first time since European settlement the US does not have a Protestant majority, according to a study, with the number of Americans...

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