Qatar given 10 days to meet 13 sweeping demands by Saudi Arabia

Gulf dispute deepens as allies issue ultimatum for ending blockade that includes closing al-Jazeera and cutting back ties with Iran


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On the face of it, President Trump’s decision to attack Syria doesn’t make a lot of sense. Launching 59 missiles at a single airbase, as Trump did, is not going to seriously change the outcome of a years-long civil war. So what’s the point of doing it at all ( Read more... )

World Peace Achieved by Giving Everyone a Weapon. What Could go Wrong?

Global Arms Sales Paint Chilling Picture of World at War

Global sales of major arms systems have risen over the past five years to the highest volume since the end of the Cold War, according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute’s (SIPRI) annual report on arms sales ( Read more... )

America to Stop Anyone But Our Allies From Committing Crimes Against Our Oil Sugar Daddies Humanity.

Exploiting the Tragedy of Aleppo
Official Washington’s dominant neocons have pushed emotional propaganda about Syria as a way to justify a “regime change” project there and are now furious with its apparent failure, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar ( Read more... )

Orange Monster Promises to Be Just as Freedom Loving as Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama.

It's 2016. Do You Know Where Your Bombs Are Falling?
The Forgotten War in Yemen and the Unchecked War Powers of the Presidency in the Age of TrumpThe long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse ( Read more... )

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its actions in Syria.

The 193-member General Assembly on Friday elected 14 members to 47-nation council, the U.N.’s main body charged with promoting and protecting human ( Read more... )

OP: Recent news about the battle against IS is below.
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IS conflict: Kurdish forces capture Iraq villages


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Saudi Arabia: Bombings target Medina and Qatif mosques

Just a head's up. The section titled "Qatif Explosions" gets a bit graphic in detailing the aftermath of the suicide bombing, so please feel free to skip that part if you need to.

Four security guards killed at Prophet's Mosque in Medina in third attack to hit kingdom in one day.


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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged Thursday that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers - 72 hours after it was published - due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs.

The secretary-general didn’t name the source of the threat, but news reports have ( Read more... )

Uber raised $3.5 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund Wednesday, and my heart broke a little - not because I have anything against Uber, but because of what this means for the women of Saudi Arabia.

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