Just days after the news hit that ISIS’ main propaganda officer, Mohammad al-Adnani, one of the Islamic State’s most prominent leaders, the second in command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as the unofficial spokesman of the terrorist organization, was killed (with a scandal promptly erupting between the US and Russia over who had taken…
The British writer Shelina Janmohamed talks about her new book “Generation M” on young Muslims and the way they mix religion with modernity. Sputnik Uzbekistan tried to find out what changes have occurred in modern Muslim society over the past few years. From Mipsters (Muslim hipsters) to halal cafes, dating sites and fashion trends, Muslim…
Sometimes the real news is in the details — or even in the discrepancies. Take, for instance, missions by America’s most elite troops in Africa. It was September 2014. The sky was bright and clear and ice blue as the camouflage-clad men walked to the open door and tumbled out into nothing. One moment members…
The Geneva treaties and protocols (aka accords) It was on 12 August 1949 that the nations of the world, with Nazi atrocities still in mind, updated what are known as the Geneva Accords. This constituted an effort to once again set limits on the wartime behaviour of states and their agents. Among other things, the…
It is reported that the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse Tung, once said, “All wars eventually end with negotiated settlements.” While this may be true in most conflicts, five years into NATO’s brutal imposed war on Syria – and I refuse to call it, “The Syrian Civil War” – it appears that this dirty war…
Here are 10 of the worst lies that have been peddled by the West regarding Syria, with the aim of giving people living in Western countries an entirely false view of the conflict that has been raging in the Middle East country since 2011. As in the case of previous US-led wars against Yugoslavia, Iraq…
