France Says U.S, Israel and Saudi Arabia Want Iran War
French President Emmanuel Macron has accused the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia of instigating a war as their mutual foe, Iran, was rocked by a week of protests. Macron on Wednesday joined several other world leaders to weigh in on protests that began as demonstrations against austerity measures under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and later […]
Pakistan Accuses US of Exporting War, Instability to South Asia
Pakistan is accusing the United States of “exporting war” and “perpetual instability” in South Asia, and of “speaking Indian language” in bilateral dealings. The allegations leveled by National Security Adviser Nasir Janjua again underscore the deterioration in Islamabad’s relations with Washington. It also strengthened reported suggestions the two countries are on a collision course, particularly […]
Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today
Syrian Christians and Muslims offer prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, in 2013. AP Photo The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million,…
VOA Exclusive: Dozens More US Troops Deployed to Somalia
Dozens of American soldiers have deployed to Mogadishu to train and equip Somali and AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) forces fighting extremism in that country, U.S. military officials told VOA. The troops’ arrival marks the first presence of American military forces in Somalia, other than a small unit of counterterrorism advisers, since March 1994 […]
Russian Ship Heads toward U.S. Navy after Syria Strike
Russia deployed its most advanced Black Sea frigate Friday into the eastern Mediterranean, where U.S. Navy destroyers had launched an airstrike earlier that day against the Moscow-backed Syrian military. As Russian leadership condemned the U.S.’ first intentional attack on the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s six-year conflict began, Russia’s Admiral Grigorovich […]
Syria’s war: Who is fighting and why [Updated]
After four-plus years of fighting, Syria’s war has killed at least hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. And, though it started as a civil war, it’s become much more than that. It’s a proxy war that has divided much of the Middle East, and has drawn in both Russia and the United States. […]
Why an Iran-Saudi Arabia Conflict Is More Likely Today
Much has been written about the cold war between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Though this deadly strategic competition has not caused the sweeping disorder in which the Middle East finds itself, it has widened and deepened it. Whether in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Lebanon or elsewhere, the feud between Riyadh […]
The frighteningly high human and financial costs of war
We have always known that war is dirty and destructive, but now a US-led international team of researchers is revealing precisely how destructive and expensive several wars have been for the United States and the countries it invades – and how the ravages and costs of war could persist for generations after the fighting and […]