By Nina LARSON | – Geneva (AFP) – All sides in Yemen’s bloody conflict may have committed war crimes, UN investigators said Tuesday, highlighting deadly air strikes, rampant sexual violence, and the recruitment of young children as soldiers. In their first report, a team of UN-mandated investigators said they had “reasonable grounds to believe that […]
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Middle East
Saudi Crown Prince vows Yemeni Children will “Shiver,” but is He on Way Out?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mohamed Bin Salman, the thirty-two-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is finding his wings clipped, by his father and by the heavy hand of reality, so severely that some are speculating about whether he can survive politically. Alkhaleejonline.net reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman recently met with his […]
Iran Launches Suit at UN Court against Trump Sanctions
By Jan Hennop and Roland Lloyd Parry | – The Hague (AFP) – Iran demanded Monday that the UN’s top court order the United States to suspend nuclear-linked sanctions against Tehran, but Washington vowed to “vigorously” fend off the legal challenge. The Islamic Republic launched a suit at the International Court of Justice over US […]
What 15 Years of US Occupation have Produced: Angry Iraqis
Militant protests continue in the oil rich city of Basra
Iran Parliament Fires Finance Minister, as US Sanctions Bite (Cost Iran $1.1 Trillion)
Iran’s parliament on Sunday fired the Finance Minister, Massoud Karbasian, in a severe political setback for president Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian rial has fallen dramatically against the dollar in recent months, eating into the purchasing power of Iranian consumers who buy goods from abroad. Supporters of Karbasian in parliament clashed physically with his critics, leading […]
Trump Admin. to Withdraw from Palestinian Refugees All Rights of Return
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United States Donald Trump administration will announce a suspension of funding to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and the rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees. According to Hebrew-language news outlets, the US administration is expected to announce its new policy early September, […]
Israeli PM Netanyahu Courting Right to Split Europe, Stop Palestinian State
London (Middle East Monitor) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told reporters accompanying him on his visit to Lithuania that he is seeking to divide the European Union and trying to prevent a consensus over Europe’s position on issues related to the Palestinians and Iran. Before leaving for a tour of the Baltic states, […]
PLO to Trump: ‘The Rights of the Palestinian People are not for Sale’
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian officials of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) responded, on Saturday, to the United States Trump administration cutting more than $200 million of financial aid to the Palestinian people. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi strongly criticized the US decision, stressing that “the US administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail […]
Trump’s Foreign Policy Hand Crippled by Legal Woes
Trump’s domestic woes as an unindicted co-conspirator inevitably make him weak on the world stage. Foreign adversaries don’t take seriously a president who looks as though he might be impeached. And they know that presidents under siege in the capital do not have the leisure to attend to foreign affairs with any concentration. Even friends […]