Much of the news these weeks could be about Iran — past, present and future. Forty years ago, the Islamic revolution was at its height. last week, there was a U.S.-organized ministerial meeting in Warsaw to discuss [ More … ]
Ex-NSA operatives reveal how they helped spy on targets for the Arab monarchy — dissidents, rival leaders and journalists. wo weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency [ More … ]
Turkey to establish and control safe zone in northern Syria [ More … ]
‘Turkey fights against terrorists, not Kurds,’ presidential spokesman tells US president over his threat on Turkey Turkey on Sunday warned U.S. President Donald Trump against conflating Syrian Kurds with the PKK terror organization and its [ More … ]
General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the autocratic dictator of Egypt and good friend of Donald Trump, has more in common with the president of the U.S. than his autocratic methods. Like Trump, he has been putting his [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay Trump’s instant squandering of centuries-old values without batting an eyelid in order to protect Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his risking of discrediting the CIA, his own intelligence organization that [ More … ]
SAUDI ARABIA’S crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is brazenly seeking to lie his way out of accountability for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration is helping him do so, says [ More … ]
The United States will make final conclusions by early next week over the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi, President Donald Trump said on Saturday, following reports that the CIA had held Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin [ More … ]
The United States has chosen the wrong path in reimposing sanctions on Iran and will be defeated, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. Washington reinstated sanctions targeting Iran’s oil [ More … ]
Leaders from across the world gathered in Paris to mark Nov. 11 Armistice Day. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* We have entered a new phase in the Iran issue (actually in the U.S.’s dance with Iran). In reality, the Obama administration took the nuclear program of Iran under control to some extent [ More … ]
The United States on Friday removed two top Turkish officials from the Global Magnitsky Act sanctions list, according to the Treasury Department website. The United States had imposed sanctions on the officials, Justice Minister Abdulhamit [ More … ]
The ascendance of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia was a boon for Israel, He sought to push back against Iran, even comparing its supreme leader to Hitler. He cared little for the Palestinian [ More … ]
Trump’s ‘Long History’ of Financial Dealings with the Saudis Complicates the Khashoggi Affair – American politicians, presidents included, have long turned a blind eye to the Saudi government’s wrongdoing, but even many of them seem [ More … ]
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