07/22/2016Is America getting worse or better? Is America going to be “great” again, whatever that has meant since the 1980s? But more to the point, what difference does any of it make? Let’s be honest here about the so-called future of the United States of America. Since the dawn of what humanity likes to call…
The US involvement in Syria comes in “two main flavors”: one is an overt military operation which aims to defeat Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), while the other is a CIA-led clandestine program to support the Syrian rebels which are seeking to topple Bashar al-Assad. Although US efforts to supply rebels in Syria have repeatedly resulted in American weapons finding their…
France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will assist airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, French President Francois Hollande has said. Hollande was speaking after a Defense Council meeting in the Elysee Palace in the French capital. The carrier will be deployed at the end of September this year, according to the French…
The Houthis have beaten back and counter-invaded Saudi. US and the Gulf Arabs have responded with — listen this — a statement pleading that ‘the conflict in Yemen should not threaten Yemen’s neighbours’ Since March 2015 Saudi Arabia, with active help of the U.S., UK and UAE, is trying to subdue Yemen by force. Using…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov © Alexandr Sherbak/TASS KLYAZMA (Moscow Region), July 22. /TASS/. The West’s incompetent policy in the Middle East and North Africa has led to the current consequences in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. “What is happening in the Middle East, North Africa is the direct result of a…
Scores of civilians trapped in Islamic State-controlled territory in northern Syria were reportedly killed Tuesday by airstrikes from Western coalition aircraft. The reported death toll, potentially the highest ever to result from a coalition bombing in the international campaign against ISIS, continued to climb as The Intercept reached out to monitoring groups tracking operations in…
