2018

(Middle East Monitor) – Around 3.5 million people across Yemen have fled their homes due to the conflict in the country, the head of Turkish Red Crescent said on Friday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Yemen’s southern city of Lahij, Kerem Kinik said: “Two-thirds of the overall population have been struggling with food insecurity and […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Army Snipers Kill Palestinian Teen, shoot 40 others in Gaza Protests

Maan News Agency

Palestinian protesters had gathered at the eastern borders of Gaza

Afghanistan

With US Troop Pull-Out, Afghans Fear Return to Taliban Era

Allison Jackson

President Ghani said last month nearly 30,000 Afghan security forces had been killed since the start of 2015

Kurds

Erdogan Vows to Destroy Leftist Kurdish YPG Militia – a US Ally – in Syria

AFP

By Ezzedine Said with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday vowed to drive out a US-backed Kurdish militia and jihadists from Syria as Kurdish forces there warned that any attack by Ankara could seriously undermine the fight against the Islamic State. Erdogan’s promise followed […]

Qur'an

Review of Juan Cole, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace” at The New Arab

Juan Cole

The war ended with the rise of a movement with a radical peace message and that movement was Islam.

Featured

Mattis was no Shining Knight: From backing Yemen War to Whitewashing Khashoggi Murder

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Official Washington was horrified at the resignation on Thursday of Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who wrote Trump a letter (below) that said “Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right […]

Turkey