Author: Steven Sahiounie

By Andrew Korybko Iran had hitherto allowed India to make a fool out of it without uttering even the faintest protest in response, yet the Islamic Republic’s previously servile attitude might be changing if two recent statements by its leadership are any indication of a new approach taking shape towards the South Asian state. India recently made a fool out of Iran by complying with the US’ unilateral sanctions against its oil industry, victimizing it with blowback from the Hybrid War on CPEC, and allying with its sworn American & “Israeli” enemies, yet the Islamic Republic’s previously servile attitude towards the South Asian…

By Pepe Escobar Complex doesn’t even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What’s clear in our current, volatile moment is that they’re partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran remain the crucial triad in the ongoing, multi-layered, long-term Eurasia integration process. A few days after our Asia Times report, an article – based on “senior sources close to the Iranian regime” and crammed with fear-mongering, baseless accusations of corruption and outright ignorance about key military issues – claimed that Russia would turn the Iranian ports of Bandar Abbas and Chabahar into forward…

Lilly Martin , international observer, A Christian man, living in Detroit since he was an infant, did not have US citizenship because the US would not grant the Chaldean Christians of Iraq refugee status. The group is among the FIRST Christians on earth. Jimmy grew up with a mental illness. The US government deported him to IRAQ, his father’s birthplace, even though he knew no Iraqis and knew no Arabic. They forced him on a plane and dumped him there. His sister in Michigan didn’t even know this happened until he called her from Iraq desperate for Insulin, as he was…

US stocks plummeted by nearly 400 points on Monday as bond yields resumed their downward spiral this week, further contributing to the market’s growing weeks-long volatile streak. Trading closed Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 391 points and the S&P 500 down by 35.96 points. The Nasdaq plummeted by 95.73 points. CNBC reported that the benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield, which hit its lowest last week since 2016, dipped to a low 1.63%. It further noted that the difference between a two-year and 10-year yield slimmed down to only about six basis points. Neil Dwane, a global strategist…

The presence of Western forces in the Gulf is fueling regional tension, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hakim said on Monday. “The states of the Gulf can together secure the transit of ships,” he tweeted. Baghdad is seeking to reduce tension in the region “through calm negotiations and the presence of Western forces in the region will increase tension,” the minister said. The statement was in response to efforts by the Trump administration to set up a US-led naval security mission in the Strait of Hormuz. Britain said last week it would join the mission, while no other US allies have committed themselves so far.…

Sarah Abed, independent journalist and analyst After three days of intense negotiations in Ankara, US and Turkish officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to create a joint operations center and set up a safe zone east of the Euphrates in north eastern Syria. Deal details have not yet been disclosed. This last minute deal between Washington and Ankara is in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’sannouncement on Sunday that Turkey was prepared to carry out a unilateral cross-border operation to push back Kurdish militias on the Syrian Turkish border east of the Euphrates river, if the Washington didn’t cut ties with the…

The Syrian Arab Army has continued their advance in the southwestern countryside of Idlib tonight, targeting a village located near the Hama border. According to a report from northwestern Syria, the Syrian Arab Army captured the town of Mughar Al-Hamam after advancing east of the Hama Governorate border. The village is located northwest of the town of Al-Hobeit, which is currently under attack by the Syrian Arab Army in the southwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate. The Syrian Arab Army restarted their offensive in northwestern Syria on Monday after the conditional ceasefire with the militant forces collapsed. Since restarting this…

The UN refugee agency has said fighting over Libya’s capital Tripoli has displaced more than 105,000 people since April, when a Libyan commander launched an offensive to take the city from the UN-backed government. The UNHCR tweeted on Friday that its relief aid could only reach about 2,200 out of 21,000 displaced families. In April, the self-styled Libyan National Army of commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on Tripoli. Haftar, who is based in eastern Libya, boasts support from key Arab governments, but his military campaign has so far resulted in a stalemated conflict, AP said.

In an exposed attempt to justify its illegitimate military presence in Syria, the US has started to spread a propaganda on the return of Daesh (ISIS) terrorists as a report issued by Inspector General at the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) considered that Daesh terrorist organization is emerging again “in Syria because the US withdrew its forces from there,” and that “it has enhanced its capabilities” in Iraq. The statement, issued by the Pentagon, claimed that ” Despite of its loss of its caliphate on the regional level, yet Daesh organization has enhanced its capabilities in Iraq and it resumed…

By: Lilly Martin My 2 cents. I live in Syria. No one in Syria had any guns unless you were a police officer or a soldier. There were no holdups, no bank robberies, no home invasions, no school shootings, no angry neighbor shootings, no road rage ending with a bullet. The French association of travel agents voted Syria as the SAFEST tourist destination in the entire Mediterranean region (that was about 2000). We had no crime rate. You can’t rob a bank with a kitchen knife, it needs a gun. I always felt safe. I was never afraid. I am originally…