Iran
Iran: outrage over mass execution
International outrage over the mounting wave of executions in Iran reached another milestone when 12 drug convicts were hanged at Karaj Central Prison outside Tehran.
Tag: Kurdistan
Iraq
Iraq: protest Kurdish detention of Yazidi woman
Amnesty International is demanding that Iraq's Kurdish authorities immediately release a Yazidi woman who has been held for nearly two years after surviving ISIS captivity.
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.
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.
Iraq
Bill Weinberg explains the origins of ISIS
Bill Weinberg rants against the conspiranoid notion that the US intentionally created ISIS, dismissed as a "fairy tale" by progressive supporters of the Syrian Revolution.
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.
Iran
UN rights chief: mass executions in Iran deplorable
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein criticized Iran for the mass execution of 20 people this week, calling the action "deplorable."
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.
Iraq
Iraq: keep abusive militias out of Mosul campaign
Human Rights Watch urged Iraqi military commanders to prevent abusive sectarian militias from participating in the campaign to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.
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
Erdogan dictatorship in wake of coup attempt?
With a post-coup purge of his enemies now underway, Erdogan is positioned to push through his proposed constitutional change that would establish an autocracy in Turkey.