Last Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Azerbaijan’s dictator Ilham Aliyev in Washington and called for “an ultimate resolution” of the decades-old conflict in the disputed province of Nagorno-Karabakh. On Friday, as the hereditary Azeri despot was on the plane back to Baku, Azeri troops were already launching an offensive against the …
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About 1,500 people were evacuated from Hit. Local authorities say the group was composed of prisoners from a secret Daesh Jail.
Iraqi lawmakers officially declared Anbar province a disaster zone. At least 150 were killed and 11 were wounded: At least four children died of starvation in occupied Falluja. Militants killed a woman in Tarmiya. A blast killed or wounded 13 militiamen. A civilian was gunned down in Abu Saida. In Yusufiya, a bomb wounded seven …
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A new poll published by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, shows that a plurality of Americans misunderstand a fundamental fact about the Middle East. Specifically, a statistically representative sample of Americans and three other nationalities were asked a simple question about Israel and Palestine. The wording of the question and the results are shown …
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The biggest US military realignment in a generation may be underway in the Asia-Pacific. But most Americans know nothing about it. Unveiled in 2011, the “Pacific Pivot” aims to transition US military and diplomatic resources away from the Middle East and toward the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. The United States already has …
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After the first phase of overt military regime changes in Latin America, the 1954 CIA overthrow of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz ushered in the era of covert coups. The list is well known: Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile. Much less well known is the 1964 coup that removed Brazil’s Joao Goulart from power, which was …
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March casualty figures were released. At least 90 people were killed in the latest violence.
