Turkey and the United States will soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday. Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday, and regional allies including Saudi[…]
OPINION by Hamid Dabashi – United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and consider “de-Zionising the American empire”. Does this speech, and a whole array of[…]
OPINION by Geoffrey Aronson – President Barack Obama’s speech at American University in Washington DC on August 6 marks a historic turning point in the US relationship with Israel. The setting was deliberately chosen to associate the president’s achievement in winning a nuclear deal with Iran with a similar call[…]
The US has launched its first drone strikes at northern Syria from a Turkish airbase, the Pentagon has reported. This comes as Washington struck a deal to use the base in its fight against Islamic State. A spokesman for Pentagon said on Wednesday that an unmanned drone was launched on Monday[…]
Turkey and the US have agreed on the outlines of a plan to drive Islamic State out of a strip of land along the Turkey-Syria border, according to reports, in a landmark deal that will draw Turkey further into Syria’s civil war and looks likely to increase the intensity of[…]
A British man convicted of supporting the Taliban in the US has been freed after spending 11 years in prison, according to a statement by his family. UK man fights case against US extradition A picture shared on Facebook on Sunday showed Babar Ahmad at home with his father, a[…]
Investigators on Friday sought to determine what led a 24-year-old gunman to open fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines in an attack officials said could be an act of ‘domestic terrorism’. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, identified as the shooter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was[…]
A Fifa official arrested in Switzerland has been extradited to the US as part of a corruption investigation into the international football governing body. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice did not name the official, but the news came six days after it was reported that Jeffrey Webb – one[…]
Iran will have no way to avoid inspections of military or other sites that the United States and its allies deem suspicious when a nuclear pact sealed this week goes into effect, U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Wednesday. Rice, in an interview with Reuters, said the deal[…]
New York City reached a settlement Monday with the family of Eric Garner for $5.9 million, almost a year after the 43-year-old died in police custody. The family filed a notice of claim in October, the first step in filing a lawsuit against the city, asking for $75 million. Garner[…]
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