By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | – – The town of Dabiq, in northern Syria, around 25 miles from Aleppo, with its population of just under 3,500, is an unimpressive site for a battle that is supposed to herald the Apocalypse. Yet, according to the Hadith (a collection of reports about the sayings […]
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Arab World
Russia and Turkey Make up: What implications for Syria, Kurds?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday for direct talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in a bid to further normalize relations between the two countries. Russian-Turkish trade and diplomatic ties were stress late last fall when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet […]
Starving Yemen
By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy ) | – – Is the forgotten war turning into a forgotten famine? What answers will we give when the next generation ask how we could watch these tragedies and do nothing? Still from the film documentary,’Starving Yemen’2016. BBC Arabic/BBC Our World. All rights reserved.Most of us are glued […]
Saudi Airstrikes kill Hundreds of Civilians, maim hundreds at Yemeni Funeral
By TeleSur | – – Saudi Arabia and 10 of its Middle East allies began their military offensive in Yemen with over 100 warplanes and 150,000 troops. Saudi-led warplanes killed at least 82 people when they struck mourners at a hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, the acting health minister in the Houthi-run […]
The Graveyard of ISIL
By Mustafa Sadoun | Fallujah | ( Niqash.org) | – – NIQASH visits an ISIL cemetery in Fallujah and finds the hastily built, last resting places of several of the group’s leaders, as well as unusual ideas for what to do with the place in the long run. A still from the Iraqi military’s video […]
The Other Aleppo: A rare portrait of the Government-held Western City
Channel Four News | (Video News Report) | – – “We have seen the tragedy of East Aleppo which is under siege and fierce bombardment from the Syrian and Russian armies – but there’s another side to the city; a side of the war that is hidden from view. West Aleppo is home to around […]
As Battle w/ ISIL for Mosul nears, Iraq should exclude Abusive Militias
Human Rights Watch | – – Role of Abusive Armed Forces, Treatment, and Screening of Detainees (Beirut) – The Iraqi government should make a commitment to prevent any armed forces implicated in laws of war violations from participating in planned operations against the extremist armed group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Mosul, Human […]
De Mistura: al-Qaeda must leave E. Aleppo to save it from Destruction
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has addressed the Levant Conquest Front, whose leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri. De Mistura said that among the 8,000 or so fighters from rebel groups in the East […]
US breaks off Military Cooperation with Russia in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arab press reacted to the announcement on Monday by the US government that it was ending its military cooperation with the Russian Federation in Syria. Masr al-Arabiya noted that the US underlined that that the step did not imply that all sorts of joint activity […]
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