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?
Vijay Prashad: The Change in Syria
Category: Saudi Arabia
When Britain Aided Al-Qaeda in Syria
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.
Craig Murray: The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
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.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Trump II & the Middle East
There are always hopes — so far proven unfounded — that in a second term an American president will be kinder to the Arabs.
The Chris Hedges Report: The World According to Trump
Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, provides insight into what a Trump presidency may look like outside of the borders of America.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: The Arab Vote
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.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange Appears as Mideast Burns’
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.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Iran’s Crucial Decision on Israel
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.
The Reign of the Dollar
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.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Biden’s Saudi Deal
The White House is committing itself to the survival and longevity of one of the most totalitarian regimes in the region, and the world.