After three days of denial, Iran finally came clean on Saturday about the downing of a Ukrainian civilian airliner earlier on Wednesday, January 8, which it said its forces had shot down errantly while on the alert over Tehran’s recent...
Iran has finally taken responsibility for shooting down the Ukrainian jetliner leading to the loss of 176 lives, on the night it launched missile strikes against US targets. Although it had been a widely held belief by many, especially in...
Resource rich but chronically unstable, Libya is a magnet for foreign intervention. Russia, Turkey, and a host of others have waded into the North African nation’s bruising civil war. But Europe, a continent with strong historical ties to the region...
The operation was called “Soleimani Martyr” and the code that identified the attack was called “O Zahra”, in honour of the daughter of Mohammed and mother of Hussein, a key figure of Shia Islam and Iran in particular. The Iranian...
It took just three hours for Sirte to fall. The city’s garrison, pummelled into submission by enemy airstrikes, largely melted away as rebel fighters moved in. For the UN-backed Tripoli government, it was a bitter blow – one that could...
Iran has retaliated for the killing of Soleimani and struck two US bases in Iraq with several missiles. Initial US reports suggest that the attack caused no American casualties. Nonetheless, the world is spellbound by how Washington will react. In...
The current standoff between the United States and Iran is a pivotal time in history. Following the US killing of Kataib Hezbollah members in late December and subsequent American assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani on Jan....
When the US announced its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Paris, London and Berlin envisioned to act as a mediator to save the deal. They failed miserably. The current conflict with Iran further amplifies how helpless Europe has been...
On January 7th, Vladimir Putin went to Damascus to visit his troops for Orthodox Christmas. On this occasion he met with Syrian leader Assad and confronted him about the military situation in the country.
In the aftermath of the Soleimani killing, the Iraqi parliament passed a resolution on the weekend that ought to send home the approximately 5,000 US soldiers stationed in the country (from 160,000 previously). It would be the beginning of a...
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