PressTV September 16, 2013 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the ongoing crisis in Syria is merely part of a wider conspiracy plan the West is pursuing in the Middle East. “We are well aware that the disputes are not over one person or one president…
Habib Toumi Gulf News September 8, 2013 Kuwaitis have called for stringent action against a family in Yemen after their eight-year-old daughter died of internal injuries on the first night of her arranged marriage to a man more than five times her age. Rawan died…
Michel Chossudovsky Global Research September 3, 2013 A massive US and allied naval deployment is occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean off Syria’s coastline as well as in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. While this display of military might may not be part of…
Daily Mail August 31, 2013 Team of chemical weapons experts left war-torn country for Lebanon U.S has ‘high confidence’ that Assad launched chemical weapons attack Britain left sidelined after David Cameron’s humiliating Commons defeat Sources say White House ‘now know the Brits cannot be counted…
AP August 29, 2013 The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria’s chemical weapons stores and…
The fruits of the Arab Spring. Today Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that the use of chemical weapons in Syria is “undeniable”: The civil war in Syria is reported to have already claimed 100,000 lives over the past two years, and yet our leaders…
Sinan Salaheddin AP August 25, 2013 Insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq killed at least 46 people in numerous attacks scattered around the country on Sunday, striking targets as varied as a coffee shop, a wedding party convoy and a carload of off-duty soldiers. The attacks…
Ahmed Al-Haj and Maggie Michael AP August 8, 2013 The U.S. has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks, including three strikes on Thursday alone in which…
AP July 29, 2013 Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bomb explosion near Baghdad. A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing at least 47 people in the latest…
AP July 23, 2013 It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Iraqi security forces locked down areas around the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and another high-security detention facility on Baghdad’s outskirts Monday to hunt for escaped inmates and militants…
BBC July 23, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLHL1-L_s0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLHL1-L_s0 The family of the ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has accused the army of abducting him. His daughter Shaimaa told a news conference in Cairo that the family was taking legal measures against the army. Mr Morsi has been held…
The Guardian May 25, 2013 Supporters of Hezbollah watch Nasrallah’s televised address in the village of Mashghara, Lebanon. Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA The leader of Hezbollah has warned that the fall of the Syrian regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into…
