That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?
The U.K.’s campaign to overthrow the Assad regime provides key background to understanding Whitehall’s approach to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, writes Mark Curtis.
What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.
There are always hopes — so far proven unfounded — that in a second term an American president will be kinder to the Arabs.
Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, provides insight into what a Trump presidency may look like outside of the borders of America.
The U.S. election could ride on the results in the state of Michigan and Arab-American and other Muslim votes could determine who wins Michigan.
Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst join CN Live! to discuss Julian Assange’s appearance in Strasbourg and to lend their expert analysis to the blow up in the Middle East.
Tehran will eventually need to address Tel Aviv, maybe even more so after the pager terrorist attack in Lebanon. But Iran will do so on its own terms, not on the timeline dictated by its enemies.
Recent speculation in India about the collapse of the Saudi petro-dollar agreement with the U.S. proved false. Vijay Prashad considers three factors that can feed such a rumor.