President Joe Biden, while speaking in Tokyo on Monday during his first trip to the region as president, said that the U.S. would come to Taiwan’s defenses if China attempts to take the island by force. Biden was asked by a reporter if the U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily if Beijing decides to invade, and...
Barely mentioned in the American and western media is a report released last week which said that despite Washington spending $90 billion over 20 years to train a security force in Kabul, the country’s force easily fell to the Taliban as soon as President Biden ordered the U.S. troops to leave. The Special Inspector General...
Ever since U.S. President Barack Obama and his NATO allies launched the Libyan War in March 2011 to overthrow and murder its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the once-thriving north Africa country has been socially and economically decimated. Last Tuesday, chaos broke out in its capital Tuesday when a competing prime minister entered Tripoli, to challenge the...
Israel launched another deadly attack in Syria on Friday, targeting what were identified in reports as Iranian weapon depots and Syrian bases on the outskirts of Damascus. Al Jazeera, citing an unidentified military source, reported that the surface-to-air missiles were fired from inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. These missiles slammed into southern Damascus. Some were intercepted...
The Australian military said a Chinese intelligence ship was located about 250 nautical miles from the coast in Western Australia, prompting Canberra’s defense minister to accuse China of carrying out an “unprecedented” act of aggression. This Chinese ship, the Haiwangxing, crossed into Australia’s exclusive economic zone on 6 May and “hugged the coast.” Peter Dutton,...
German police on Friday banned a vigil intended to honor the memory of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who, according to Palestinian government, was killed last week by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. (See AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST’S DEATH: KILLED DURING ISRAELI RAID IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY.) The vigil was organized by Jüdische Stimme,...
The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 51-year-old Al Jazeera journalist, has increased tension between Palestinians and Israel following allegations that she was shot by Israeli troops. Videos emerged from her funeral in Jerusalem’s Old City that showed violent clashes between mourners and Israeli police. The officers were seen using batons to pummel mourners as...
The Syrian Foreign Ministry last week sent a letter to the UN Security Council and Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general, about alleged war crimes committed by the U.S.-led coalition in the Raqqa back in 2017. The U.S.-led coalition killed hundreds of civilians and left the city in rubble. The U.S. fought to free the city from...
Pick up The New York Times, watch CNN, listen to the mainstream radio, day after day, night after night it’s the Ukraine War and the “atrocities” committed by Russia for attacking another nation. But from the Presstitutes, barely a peep about Israel’s ongoing bombardments of Syria for which, according to NEW/LINES magazine, there have been...
Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque was the scene of another violent confrontation between Israeli police and Muslim worshippers on Friday—shortly after dawn prayers. The Palestinian Red Crescent, reported that 42 people were injured at the holy site in Israeli occupied Jerusalem, and 22 needed to be rushed to hospitals. Jewish Israelis call the compound the Temple...