The US, Africa and a New Century of War
• truth-out.org By William Rivers PittMost Americans' broad ignorance regarding Africa is a long-standing phenomenon, one perpetuated from the top down.
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Most Americans' broad ignorance regarding Africa is a long-standing phenomenon, one perpetuated from the top down.
A television interview of a top Qatari official confessing the truth behind the origins of the war in Syria is going viral across Arabic social media during the same week a leaked top secret NSA document was published which confirms that the armed op
A television interview of a top Qatari official confessing the truth behind the origins of the war in Syria is going viral across Arabic social media during the same week a leaked top secret NSA document was published which confirms ....
Russia and Saudi Arabia 'sign $3bn arms deal' as King Salman visit shows how much relations have changed
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'I Gave Them Authority to Do What's Right'
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Officials Say Deployment Is By Far the Largest
Last week the new head of the CIA Mike Pompeo publicly threatened to make the CIA a "much more vicious agency". His first step towards that is to unleash CIA sponsored killer gangs onto the people of Afghanistan:
The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet.
"The Kurds have no friends but the mountains," is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds.
Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud also announced the kingdom would do more to tackle extremism
New city, called NEOM, to be connected to Egypt, Jordan Plan is latest mega project announced by the kingdom
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Removing Gaddafi Was First Step
No Arabic-speaking police officer read the post before arresting the man, who works at a construction site in a West Bank settlement
Claiming more stray artillery fire landing inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli officials are promising to "step up" their strikes against Syrian military targets in response, including attacks over the weekend in southern Syria.
CIA paramilitary forces are expanding partner operations in Afghanistan to hunt and kill high level Taliban operatives, The New York Times reports.
Gold star widow Natasha De Alencar released the audio of a phone conversation she had with President Donald Trump in April about the death of her husband who was killed in Afghanistan.
The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers. I've been saying this for the last four years.
Bill Clinton sought State's permission to meet with Russian nuclear official during Obama uranium decision
Serving in Afghanistan taught me there is no military solution to the country's problem -- and there's no end in sight to the 16-year-old war.
In a move that surprised many observers of the ongoing war for Deir Ezzor province, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over one of Syria's largest gas fields to Russian forces on Thursday, possibly as the result of...
On October 4 in Niger in central Africa four American special forces soldiers were killed in an ambush by "fifty fighters, thought to be associated with ISIS [Islamic State], a US official said."
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, troubled by a lack of information two weeks after an ambush on a special operations patrol in Niger left four U.S. soldiers dead, is demanding a timeline of what is known about the attack, as a team of investigators
Fresh evidence submitted in a major 9/11 lawsuit moving forward against the Saudi Arabian government reveals its embassy in Washington may have funded a "dry ...
A diplomatic and military source within Syria is reporting that the United States Air Force evacuated 20 ISIS commanders from Deir ez-Zor as Syrian forces liberated the city from terrorist control.