Bagdhad (TSN) – Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has called for a “million-man march” against the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, just days after the country’s parliament voted to expel foreign troops from their territory. Through his Twitter account, the political leader expressed that “the heaven, earth, and sovereignty ofContinue Reading
Silicon Valley (MPN) – Deleting messages of support for Iran may seem a petty, childish retaliation for opposing the Trump administration, but it has profound ramifications for freedom of access to information. Silicon Valley giant Facebook announced Friday that it would be deleting all positive posts about recently assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani onContinue Reading
Ankara (TM) – Central Party (Merkez Parti) Chairman Abdurrahim Karslı has claimed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and top state officials were informed about preparations in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) for a military coup attempt one month before an abortive putsch on July 15, 2016, but said they deliberately tookContinue Reading
Washington (TSN) – In his first official statement following Iran’s missile strikes on two U.S. military bases in Iraq, President Donald Trump denied that U.S. citizens had died as a result of that military action. “We suffered no casualties. All of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases,” theContinue Reading
Tehran (TT) – At 1:20 a.m., several U.S. helicopters and drones attacked two Poplar Mobilization Units vehicles near an airport in Iraq that led to the martyrdom of Commander Qassem Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes and nine of PMU forces. U.S. terrorist forces claimed the responsibility of the strike, increasing their flights overContinue Reading
Baghdad (GPA) – It’s time to debunk the common misconceptions floating around and cover important points missing in most mainstream op-eds, analysis, and Tweets about General Qasem Soleimani, the US occupation of Iraq, and Washington’s 67-year aggression against Iran. 9 Things Americans need to know about General Qasem Soleimani’s assassinationContinue Reading
Bagdhad (TNA) – Tasnim News Agency recently interviewed founder of Geopolitics Alert, Randi Nord, about the recent deadly US attack on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units. Randi described the recent US attacks on positions of Iraq’s PMU as a “clear violation” of the Arab country’s sovereignty, adding that Washington prefers toContinue Reading
Ankara (TM) – Former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has said he will launch the new political party he has been working to establish in the early days of 2020, the T24 news website reported on Thursday. “The work has taken longer than we anticipated. The announcement will be delayed untilContinue Reading
Sana’a (GPA) – There are hundreds of examples of how the aggression against Yemen has revealed the ugly face of the world’s imperialist system today. Human rights, human lives, morality, and principles are merely cards world powers pull out in a game as needed and put away when their interestsContinue Reading
Beirut (MEE) – Saad al-Hariri has once again ruled himself out as a candidate to be Lebanon’s next prime minister, 50 days after he resigned from the post amid nationwide protests against the country’s widely reviled political elite. Hariri, Lebanon’s leading Sunni politician, made the statement on the eve of formal consultationsContinue Reading