Australia has done little to free its citizen, Robert Pether, a civil engineer working on a new Iraq Central Bank building, who was essentially kidnapped by Iraqi officials.
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Category: United Nations
Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
Robert Inlakesh reports on the wave of Israeli attacks in the West Bank this week following Trump’s lifting of settler sanctions and the role of U.S. donors in enabling messianic-settler extremism.
Digging Out the Bodies From the Rubble
With thousands more Palestinians’ bodies still trapped under the rubble, 248 deaths have been added so far to the official toll from Israel’s attacks, Sharon Zhang reports.
Returning to Devastation
“This is what extermination and genocide looks like” — Sharon Zhang reports on what people are finding in areas of Gaza made inaccessible by Israel’s siege.
Biden Leaves Cuba’s Terror De-Listing to Bitter End
Critics say it should not have taken the president four years to take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Vijay Prashad: Tears of Our Children
From Palestine to Sudan, imperialist wars are destroying the lives of innocent children, leaving long-term physical and psychological wounds on those who survive.
Deception & Politics From Washington to Tel Aviv
U.S.-Israeli supremacist intentions, papered over and buried for decades, are now clear for all to see, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Putin Thinks Al-Qaeda in Syria Is Reformed Too
The Russian president has said Russia actually won in Syria because the jihadist threat is apparently ended, which was Moscow’s goal all along. But he ignored what he’d previously said was the West’s role in that conflict, writes Joe Lauria.
UN Envoy Condemns Israel’s Military Advance on Syria
The envoy, Geir Pedersen, says Israel is violating a disengagement agreement from 1974 that, despite what Netanyahu says, remains in place.
What Russia Feared in Syrian Conflict Has Come True
Three years before it intervened in Syria, Russia feared an Islamist takeover in Damascus would lead to widespread chaos in the region, like a new Afghanistan in the Levant, reported Joe Lauria in 2012.