Middle East
End of the Promised Land?
A small country with limited resources cannot sustain a huge army, as well as an occupation regime and hundreds of settlements, without depriving everything else
By Uri Avnery
THOSE...
Middle East Wars Drive Refugee Flows, Mediterranean Migrant Deaths


15 October  2013
By Robert Stevens
Rescuers have ended their search for the bodies of the migrants who died in the October 3 Lampedusa boat sinking....
Post-Intervention Libya–A Militia State
By Richard Falk
Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO...
Syrian army advances as rebels rain down Damascus
Damascus, Oct 13 The Syrian army Saturday advanced against the rebels in the countryside of the capital Damascus and pushed its way to the...
All systems go as Haj set to begin
MORE THAN 1.3 MILLION PILGRIMS TRANSPORTED
MAKKAH – Just two days before the official start of Haj, around 1 million faithful performed Friday prayers at...