TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Most people may not draw an immediate connection between Salisbury and New York City. US Ambassador Nikki Haley sees a direct route from the one to the other as part of a Russian chemical weapons plot for which no real evidence exists. Speaking at an “emergency” UN Security Council session, Haley demanded “immediate, concrete measures” Read More…
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has demanded that the UN Security Council immediately declare a 30-day ceasefire across Eastern Ghouta and the rest of metro Damascus, and is threatening to attack Syria if this doesn’t happen. Eastern Ghouta is the last rebel-held area around Damascus, but over the past several weeks, the Read More…
Three years into the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, untold thousands are dead. Northern Yemen has been through the worst cholera outbreak in human history, and civilians continue to die in bunches from Saudi airstrikes against the region. To call Yemen war-torn is really putting it mildly. Yemen is in a disastrous state, with a Read More…
Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir defended his nation’s 2015 invasion of Yemen, and ongoing attacks in the country as a “just war, supported by international law.” The Saudi FM did not elaborate on how the Saudi war was legal, but rather went on to accuse British opponents of the conflict, Read More…
Buying up equipment for their military, Iraq is in the market for some new air defense systems. This has got the potential of putting them at odds with the United States, and potentially facing US sanctions for buying the wrong product. As with other nations in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari is confirming his nation is Read More…
After a week and a half of strikes softening up the area, and killing large numbers of civilian bystanders, Syrian ground troops launched an offensive on Wednesday into the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta. Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the capital city of Damascus, is the last substantial rebel-held territory in the area, which has been under protracted Read More…