By Aram Mirzaei As predicted, the Kurdish referendum ended in a conflict over the disputed areas in northern Iraq, areas that have been occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga forces since the 2014 ISIL invasion of Iraq. Throughout these weeks, Kurdish media close ...

Late on October 24, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) of attacking its units on the eastern ban of the Euphrates, near Deir Ezzor city. The incident allegedly took place at Jubaylah. According to ...

“In my efforts to break through the current efforts to try to educate people about Communism and why it is not “dead” as the official propaganda would have you believe, but alive and doing better than ever (thanks to the ...

Vladimir Putin asked a student to pinch him after a young man from Nigeria said he couldn’t believe that the Russian president was really standing in front of him, during an informal meeting at the 19th World Festival of Youth ...

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The Big Apple’s residents were deeply shocked when they saw the “North Korean leader” calmly walking down the street and entering the Trump Building. However, the unusual sight wasn’t exactly what it seemed to be. YouTube prankster QPark found a ...

Brigadier General of the Syrian Arab Army shows reporters the weapons they captured after the liberation of the Syria’s city of Al Mayadin. NATO official has denied the information. The largest Daesh storehouse captured by the Syrian armed forces in the city of Al Mayadin, ...

by Ramin Mazaheri In 2013 my bosses in Tehran sent me to Seoul, and I felt quite courageous: just like today, Seoul was about to be ground zero for thermonuclear war. And then – as we all know from the movie ...

I am not sure how optimistic it will sound, but I am aware that you had very lively discussions over the last three days. I will try, as has now become customary, to share with you what I think about some of the issues. Please do not take it ...

by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times China’s Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road – will spark the country’s development and turn the dream into reality. Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese ...