Baghdad, Iraq | AFP | – Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim (R) receives his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Baghdad on January 13, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Sunday for wide-ranging talks, including on US sanctions against Tehran. The visit came just days […]
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Middle East
Ostracized by Neighbors, Qatar aims to Invest $45 bn in United States
Qatar Investment Authority aims to raise investments in the United States to $45 billion in the next two years as it rebalances its portfolio of assets away from Europe, its chief executive said on Sunday according to a Reuters report. The sovereign wealth fund has built up a huge European portfolio through stakes in companies […]
Snowden: If Israel’s NSO had Refused Sale to Saudis, Khashoggi would be Alive
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has said that if Israeli spyware firm NSO Group had refused to sell its technology to Saudi Arabia, murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi would still be alive. In an exclusive interview with Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published yesterday, Snowden stressed: “There is a real possibility that if NSO had refused to […]
Is Rashida Tlaib in Sights of Israel Lobbies b/c she is a Palestinian Muslim Congresswoman?
By Nasim Ahmed ( @nasim_nahmed ) – One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people. Tragically this myth served the country to great effect especially in denying the return of refugees (750,000, half the population) to their country following their expulsion in 1948 and in continually hindering the Palestinian […]
Israeli Snipers attack unarmed Protesters in Gaza, Kill Palestinian Woman, Injure 25 Others with Live Fire, Military Grade Tear Gas
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian woman was killed and 25 others suffered injuries with Israeli live ammunition during the 42nd Friday of “The Great March of Return” along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, a Palestinian woman, whose identity remained unknown, was killed […]
Defying Turkey & Russia in Syria, al-Qaeda-linked HTS takes over Idlib
By Jean Marc Mojon | – Beirut (AFP) – A general view of a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in Syria’s mostly rebel-held northern Idlib province on January 8, 2019 The Idlib area in northern Syria is now fully ruled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist organisation dominated by members […]
Pompeo’s US Jingoism and Anti-Iran Warmongering Rejected by Mideast Public
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a major and extremely embarrassing foreign policy speech in Cairo on Thursday, which is probably inconsequential since his major talking points departed from the positions of his president, Trump. Also, aside from some generals and kings and princes, nobody in the region agrees with anything he said. Pompeo’s message […]
Israel’s Jim Crow Segregated Road-Wall Opens in Occupied Palestinian West Bank
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel has opened Route 4370 in Jerusalem, in the central occupied West Bank, dividing Palestinian and Israeli settlers. The Haaretz news outlet reported that the highway, which has been called the “Apartheid Road,” is divided in the middle by a high wall; the road’s western side serves Palestinians who cannot enter Jerusalem, […]
Turkey’s Erdogan snubs Bolton for support of Kurdish YPG: ‘He made a grave Mistake’
By Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul – Ankara, Turkey | AFP | – US National Security Advisor John Bolton was in Ankara to discuss the planned US withdrawal from Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday condemned comments by a key US envoy over the future of a US-allied Syrian Kurdish militia […]
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