Iran’s foreign minister on Sunday accused Israel of looking for war and warned that its actions and those of the United States were increasing the chances of a clash in the region. Addressing the Munich [ More … ]
Arab dictators stick with Sudan’s Bashir, fearing ‘they will be next’ Arab dictators stick with Sudan’s Bashir, fearing ‘they will be next’ [ More … ]
In a new resolution, a bipartisan group of senators is calling for the United States to end its involvement—specifically its support of Saudi Arabia—in the Yemen conflict. The Senate has voted 63-37 to pass a [ 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 … ]
US ‘can’t give Saudi Arabia a pass’ on Khashoggi, US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says, blames crown prince for murder Saudi Arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. [ More … ]
Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay If the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was committed using all the means of the Saudi Arabian government, then those who commissioned it can theoretically be distinguished from the state, regardless of their [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
Gulf states are asserting themselves more than ever, and that’s a problem for the U.S. Three years ago, then Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter attributed Iran’s growing dominance to its being “in the game, on [ 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 Trump administration is announcing the reimposition of all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the sanctions are “aimed at fundamentally altering [ 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 … ]
Saudi Arabia spent almost $27 million on U.S. lobbying in 2017, nearly triple the amount during former President Obama’s last year in office, according to figures compiled by a Washington-based think tank, Lobbying expenditures jumped from [ More … ]
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