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The Saudis Are Stumbling – They May Take the Middle East With Them
The Saudis Are Stumbling – They May Take the Middle East With Them America’s leading Sunni ally is proving how easily hubris, delusion, and old-fashioned ineptitude can trump even bottomless wealth For the past eight decades Saudi Arabia has been careful. Using its vast oil wealth, it’s quietly spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam throughout the Muslim […]
Why Is Washington Supporting Saudi Arabia’s Massacre In Yemen?
Why Is Washington Supporting Saudi Arabia’s Massacre In Yemen? For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh. The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms […]
Leave the Houthis Alone!
Leave the Houthis Alone! Saudi Arabia‘s US-backed aggression against the sovereignty of Yemen is a textbook example of how local conflicts are internationalized – and become tripwires for regional wars and even global conflagrations. Like Libya, Yemen is yet another Middle Eastern country that doesn’t really exist: it is actually at least two separate countries, perhaps three – the southern provinces, […]
Saudi Arabia, with US Support, Invades Yemen
Saudi Arabia, with US Support, Invades Yemen As a study released today shows the US has killed perhaps more than 2 million people in the last decade of its wars on the Middle East, the US is now supporting a Saudi invasion of Yemen. Telesur: The government of Saudi Arabia began a military operation in Yemen against […]
ISIS Burn Iraqi Oil Fields To Hold Off Iraqi Offensive
ISIS Burn Iraqi Oil Fields To Hold Off Iraqi Offensive Thick black smoke billowing from oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit is obstructing Shi’ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers attempts to drive ISIS from the Sunni Muslim city after militants set them on fire. Reuters reports a witness and a military source said Islamic State fighters […]
How ISIS Pays Its Fighters——From Gulf State Bankrollers
How ISIS Pays Its Fighters——From Gulf State Bankrollers Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official. The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the Gulf oil states sending to Islamic State (Isis) […]
Yemen Is On The Brink Of Civil War, Says UN Envoy
Yemen Is On The Brink Of Civil War, Says UN Envoy CAIRO, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The United Nations’ special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has warned that the country is on the brink of civil war and accused all sides of contributing to the political and economic turmoil. Yemen is slipping further into chaos […]
Five explosions rock Yemeni capital – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Five explosions rock Yemeni capital – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. Five bombs have exploded in Sanaa’s old quarter, where many supporters of the Shia Muslim Houthi group live, killing at least one person and wounding another, according to a Yemeni security official. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attacks, but the Houthis have been fighting […]
The Middle East in 2015 and Beyond: Trends and Drivers (Page 1)
The Middle East in 2015 and Beyond: Trends and Drivers (Page 1). Four years after the uprisings that broke the mold of the old Middle East, 2015 promises to be another year of tumultuous change. The eruptions of 2011 unleashed decades of pent-up tensions and dysfunction in the political, socioeconomic, and cultural spheres; these dynamics […]
Deadly blasts rock Baghdad’s Shia areas – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Deadly blasts rock Baghdad’s Shia areas – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. At least 16 people have been killed in two car bombs that went off in the Sadr district of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials said. The blasts happened at around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT) on Thursday in two different parts of the district. Al […]
