The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli… Read More ›
by R. Teichmann On Oct. 4th, the German state TV channel ZDF reported on the attack on Turkey several times. In its “Mittagsmagazin” at 1300 hours it reports as follows: 02:06 – 02:32 German: „Raketen- und Granatfeuer. Die Türkei übt… Read More ›
NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days of retaliation from Turkey after Syrian shells started coming over the border… Read More ›
Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including a senior militant leader. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. Another militant was… Read More ›
The siege of Bani Walid, Libya’s ongoing political instability, and the alleged torture of Gaddafi loyalists has left the country a far cry from the vision that western powers had when they supported last year’s NATO bombing. Geopolitical analyst Patrick… Read More ›
Armed Libyan forces continue to surround the city of Bani Walid, Libya. As tension between government troops and opposition supporters continues to mount, residents have been left without food and other supplies – and are calling on the UN for… Read More ›
A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office… Read More ›
Protesters take to the streets in Ankara and Istanbul after Turkey’s parliament approved military operations against targets in Syria following the deaths of five Turkish citizens from Syrian shelling. Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Istanbul on Thursday… Read More ›
Insists US ‘Totally in Sync’ With Israel by Jason Ditz In an interview today with the Times of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro denied any disagreements between the US and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the prospect… Read More ›
Cite Administration’s Repeated Confirmation of the Program by Jason Ditz A three-judge panel at the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has reacted with skepticism to the CIA’s claims of secrecy in response to ACLU requests for information… Read More ›
The apparent haven of radical Islamists in Mali is a consequence of US interventionism and now justifying further intervention A top US official told the Associated Press that military action will be needed to eliminate radical Islamists from the haven… Read More ›
by Clive Stafford Smith Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA’s… Read More ›
by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military… Read More ›
TEHRAN (FNA)- Damascus has warned Ankara to drop support for terrorist groups fighting Bashar al-Assad’s government, threatening that it will arm Turkey’s Kurdish insurgents with missiles if Ankara continues meddling in Syria’s domestic affairs, sources revealed on Saturday. Al Manar… Read More ›
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