Greater Middle East
Global day of ‘Rage for Aleppo’
Protests are reported from more than 30 cities across the world as part of a global day of "Rage for Aleppo" to oppose the siege and bombardment of Syria's largest city.
Tag: Great Game
Greater Middle East
Syria: hideous escalation fruit of bogus ‘ceasefire’
Two weeks after the Syrian "ceasefire," Aleppo is under intense bombardment and 2 million are without water in the besieged city—portending a massive death toll.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ‘peace deal’ signals escalation… of course
The announced new cooperation between imperial rivals the US, Russia and Turkey can only mean a betrayal of the Rojava Kurds and and other democratic forces in Syria.
Central Asia
Uzbekistan’s late despot hailed by Russia and West
It is telling that Islam Karimov, the murderous dictator of Uzbekistan, is hailed upon his death as an ally in the war on terrorism by both Washington and Moscow.
Greater Middle East
Syria: reject Arab-Kurdish ethnic war
The Turkish intervention in northern Syria has set off open war between Free Syrian Army factions and the Rojava Kurds—which only serves the interests of ISIS and Assad.
Greater Middle East
Syria: Turkey invades āagainst ISIS or Kurds?
Turkey launched a major military intervention in Syria to assist rebel forces fighting ISIS—but threatening the Kurdish forces also fighting ISIS, portrayed as equally "terrorist."
Greater Middle East
Escalating internationalization of Syria war
The US Ā for the first time scrambled jets in response to Assad regime aggression when its Kurdish anti-ISIS partners came under bombardmentāforeboding direct conflict with Russia.
Greater Middle East
Syria and moral double standards
By maintaining silence on Assad regime and Russian aerial terror in Syria—or even seeking to justify it—the Western left squanders its credibility to protest US war crimes.
Greater Middle East
Syria: US closing ranks with Assad regime
Under the new US-Russia coordination in Syria, the Pentagon will direct greater firepower against ISIS and Nusra Front in what analysts call a "boon for the Assad regime."
Greater Middle East
US, Russia broach Syria carve-up
Obama's proposed agreement with Russia for military cooperation in Syria in exchange for protected zones for US-backed rebels actually means a division of the country.
Greater Middle East
Kurds and Assad in race for Raqqa
Russian and US warplanes are each backing rival sides as the Assad regime and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces race to take the ISIS "capital" of Raqqa.
Iraq
Syria: Kurdish feminist leads anti-ISIS offensive
Rojda Felat, a Kurdish revolutionary feminist, is leading the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' offensive on Raqqa, capital of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate.