Jun 28, 2015, Press TV Press TV has conducted an interview with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center from New York, to ask for her insight on Yemen’s retaliatory attacks in response to the Saudi aggression. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: We …

Jul 2, 2015, RT.com The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has all but collapsed, and coupled with an outgoing US President and growing regional instability, the political and diplomatic climate doesn’t seem conducive to a breakthrough. Is it time to draw a line on decades of failed negotiations, and what framework could …

Jun 29, 2015, The Taylor Report Petro-dollar bribery, smear campaigns, purchasing journalists and media outlets – it’s all part and parcel of daily Saudi “diplomacy.” Investigative journalist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya trawls through the Wikileaks cables and the staggering (but entirely unsurprising) revelations within. They confirm what we already know: Saudis …

Counter Punch CLICK HERE TO LISTEN This week, CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with two important guests to discuss all things Syria. The first part of the show is an in depth discussion with Beirut-based political analyst and commentator Sharmine Narwani. Eric and Sharmine examine the latest developments …

Jun 28, 2015, Middle East Channel Military or Media War? Four years of war in Syria have passed… and while it has changed many of the country’s features, the unchanged reality is that the Islamist extremist groups leave nobody in peace, enacting a policy similar to that of George W. …

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Jun 26, 2015, Pravda by Tim Anderson In the name of anti-terrorism Canberra has cancelled dozens of passports and, more recently, passed a law to strip citizenship from dual citizens believed to be involved with some of the armed groups plaguing Syria and Iraq. Since 2012 about 200 Australian citizens …

Jun 23, 2015, Ynet News For the second time in 24 hours, some 150 Druze protesters attacked and hurled stones at a military ambulance transporting wounded Syrian rebels near Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on Monday night, killing one of the rebels. Two IDF soldiers who were also in …

Jun 23, 2015, Al Manar The US Defense Department announced Monday that it will allocate salaries for the new militants who are fighting the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group, describing them as “moderate Syrians”. “We can confirm that Syrian train-and-equip members will receive stipends …

Jun 22, 2015, Press TV Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Bashar Ja’afari says some 80,000 foreign-backed terrorists have infiltrated into Syria from Turkey and Jordan to date. Ja’afari told Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam television network that members of the terrorist groups Jaish al-Fath and Jaish al-Yarmouk, which operate under …