For the last two months, mystery and confusion has shrouded Gen. Raheel Sharif, Pakistan’s retired army chief, over whether he will be the supreme commander of
Day: February 21, 2017
A Journey Through Assad’s Syria
On an icy January evening in eastern Aleppo, a grotesque scene of destruction, five men are standing around a fire in a battered oil drum
Spain Sets Massive Precedent — Charges Its Central Bankers in Court
First, Iceland, and now Spain has taken on the Big Bankers responsible for financial calamity, as the country’s highest national court charged the former head
Has There Been a “Nuclear Incident” in the Arctic?
There have been rumblings regarding some sort of nuclear incident—or possibly incidents—in the Arctic over the last month. Multiple reports, some of them from official
Rohingya Insurgency Heralds Wider War in Myanmar
Since Rohingya militant attacks on Myanmar border police last October and the a retaliatory security force crackdown, an uneasy lull has descended over northern Rakhine
The Perils of Trump Addiction
Not long after the Lebanese civil war ended more than a quarter of a century ago, I found my landlord in a depressed mood. He
The ‘Blind Sheik’ and The CIA – Media Bury US Support for Radical Islamism
Two days ago the Takfiri Islamist leader Omar Abdul-Rahman , the so called “Blind Sheik”, died in a US prison. He had been found guilty
US Navy: Saudi Frigate was Attacked by Unmanned Bomb Boat, Likely Iranian
The bomb-laden craft that attacked a Saudi frigate last month was unmanned and likely Iranian, the U.S. Navy has determined. Previously described as a Houthi
