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The US State Department denied yesterday being on the same page with Damascus in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) at a time when the US air force launched...
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US President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Syria's declared chemical weapons on board the US' shop Cape Ray have been destroyed, the Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement...
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The Israeli government and U.S. administration had agreed on a gradual end of the years-long blockade on the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to reach a durable ceasefire...
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Blog
August 19, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Despite the destruction wrought by Israel in Gaza during "Operation Protective Edge", Israel's demands remain a high priority for the international community. Speaking to the UN Security Council, UN...
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The Arab Spring has resulted, in many cases, in giving rise to extremist forces instead of strengthening democratic values, a US Republican Congressman said yesterday. Speaking during a meeting...
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Article
August 18, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
The almost incessantly-evoked juxtaposition of Israel and Iraq has forcefully returned to the helm of indignation following the massacres committed by the settler-colonial state during Operation Protective Edge. Posters...
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American fighter jets launched nine airstrikes on Saturday against ISIS fighters near Erbil in northern Iraq in a joint operation with Iraqi and Kurdish forces aimed at retaking the...
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In another sign of the increasing support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, activists in the state of California, on the Western coast of the US,...
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A U.S. Congressional delegation, headed by Republican congressman Darrell Edward Issa, has started a visit to the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on latest developments in the Middle East...
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Article
August 16, 2014
Rori Donaghy
Over the past two years the UAE has invested billions of dollars in Serbia. The Emirati leadership has agreed lucrative deals to develop the Serbian arms industry; bought a...
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The Algerian Foreign Ministry today described the US' warning to its nationals against traveling to Algeria as having no basis as there is no problem with the security situation...
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The United States has decided to suspend a scheduled shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel as tensions between the two countries grows over the war on the Gaza Strip,...
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Article
August 15, 2014
Amith Gupta
Why is CNN employing pro-Israel lobbyists and government spokespeople during an Israeli massacre in Gaza? When CNN's West Bank-based reporters, Ivan Watson and Kareem Khader, bravely reported this 15...
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A federal judge in Detroit withdrew on Tuesday from a Palestinian activist's case over his financial ties to Israel. The US federal authorities arrested Palestinian activist Rasmieh Odeh several...
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Article
All those who used to rightly denounce any call for US intervention in the internal conflicts of any Arab or Islamic country, irrespective of the causes and pretexts should...
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The US State Department expressed concerns about the "the mass killings in Egypt during the months of July and August 2013" as reported in the Human Rights Watch report...
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The Canadian judge William Schabas, who was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to chair a committee to investigate Israel's violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian...
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Article
August 13, 2014
Abdul-Hafith Mahboub
The road to hell is often considered to be paved with good intentions and reckless and destructive idealism. As America became a hostage after the catastrophic Vietnam War, Democrats...
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A delegation from the US Congress reportedly arrived in Cairo on Monday afternoon to visit Egypt. The duration of the visit has not been announced, but they will meet...
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US Vice President Joseph Biden welcomed on Monday Iraqi President Fuad Masoum's nomination of Haider Al-Abbadi for prime minister of Iraq, Anadolu news agency reported. The prime minister-designate must...
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The US yesterday said that it is supports the Iraqi President Fuad Masoum after Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malki announced on state television he would be filing a complaint against...
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Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has strongly criticised President Barack Obama's foreign policy in Syria, saying that the failure to provide military assistance to moderate opposition forces in...
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The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon Saturday reiterated calls to Iraqi leaders to unite and form a "broad based" government in Iraq. In a statement issued by his...
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A senior UN official said that the reconstruction of Gaza requires lifting the Israeli siege, imposed since 2006. In statements to AFP, spokesperson of the United Nations Relief and...
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A report by the Wall Street Journal's John Emshwiller unveiled new evidence which suggests Israel stole bomb-grade uranium from a Pennsylvania nuclear facility in the 1960s to use in...
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After less than two weeks since the US Secretary of State John Kerry's slip of the tongue in which he sarcastically questioned Israeli claims about the accuracy of the...
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Washington says it will not directly engage in the mediation efforts in Cairo between Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, because Hamas is designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by...
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August 7, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Of all the comments penned about Israel's atrocities inflicted on the people of Gaza, Fidel Castro's reflection published in Granma, the newsletter of the Cuban Communist Party, is of...
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A Palestinian-born US attorney has filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel for providing Israel with weapons used in the...
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Israeli Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging the country's strategic relations with the United States, saying relations between the two countries have reached their...
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Spokesperson of the US Department of State Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that her country objects to the Palestinian Authority's efforts to try Israel at the International Criminal Court...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter called on the United States government to recognise Hamas, who Washington deem a "terrorist" organisation. In an article published in the Foreign Policy journal,...