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People walk on the rubble of damaged buildings after an airstrike in Aleppo’s Baedeen district, Syria, May 3, 2016.REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Appalment and Brutality in Syria

by Tariq Alhomayed | Sep 25, 2016 | Opinion

The spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary General has said that Ban Ki-moon was “appalled by chilling military escalation in Aleppo.” While U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power accused Moscow of engaging in barbarism in Syria, saying: “What Russia...

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Smoke rises in the distance as Syrians gather near damaged trucks carrying aid on the side of the road in the town of Orum al-Kubra on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 20, 2016, the morning after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike. Omar haj kadour / AFP

Was it Assad or the Russians?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Sep 21, 2016 | Opinion

Technically, the U.S.-Russian ceasefire in Syria collapsed after an aid convoy was targeted while it was heading to Aleppo’s besieged areas. Washington said it was “shocked’ by the attack in Syria and warned that the air raids put Russia’s commitments at stake....

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Khomeini speaks from a balcony of the Alavi school in Tehran – Reuters

Khomeinism is Malice

by Tariq Alhomayed | Sep 20, 2016 | Opinion

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif wrote a strange article in the New York Times calling for unity against “Wahhabism”. Saudi FM Adel al-Jubeir replied in an article at The Wall Street Journal stating the crimes of the Iranian Khomeini regime. The truth is,...

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Caption:Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan attend their meeting in St. Petersburg. Photo: Reuters

Erdogan keeping a ‘Five-Months’ Distance

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 12, 2016 | Opinion

Regional and Western spotlight was highly focused on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s meeting which lasted for four hours, after which Erdogan came out referring to Putin by “my dear friend”. What remains are echoed...

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Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh talks during an interview with Reuters in Sanaa May 21, 2014. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Saleh, Houthis Establish Division in Yemen

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 7, 2016 | Opinion

On Saturday, Houthis and the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh jointly announced the formation of a supreme council of 10 members to govern Yemen in rotation. Both parties will rotate the position of the president and the vice president. But what does this new...