Embattled congressman Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has bragged that he sits down with the rightwing pro-Israel organization AIPAC on “every piece of legislation coming out of the Foreign Affairs Committee.”…
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States will take decisive steps on Wednesday to prevent the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad from securing a military victory in Syria, US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly…
ICC’s chief prosecutor is threatening to investigate two states – the US and Israel – whose actions have been particularly damaging to international law in the modern era. In the near-two decades since the International…
New satellite photos suggest an ersatz aircraft carrier built for Iranian forces to use for target practice is once again ready to take a pummeling. Repairs of damage from 2015 began in January, but the…
‘I am an Arab woman of color and we come in all Shades of Anger, beware’ Rafeef Ziadah is a member of the steering committee of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural…
Plans by Israel to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank look set to trigger a spat between the US and EU, with Washington regarding the action as an “Israeli decision” while Brussels mulls…
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – Iran has managed to break through the U.S. blockade to deliver a large amount of oil to the Syrian Arab Republic, a tanker tracking website has revealed. According to…
Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+ rockets, fired by unknown people, had hit the…
What is the Syria war about? Contrary to the depiction in Western media, the Syria war is not a civil war. This is because the initiators, financiers and a large part of the anti-government fighters come…
Note: The events that led to this critical impasse were reported by me last night, and that report thus continues here, in order to provide context to these events. The spokesperson for the Islamist party of Turkey’s…