Tag: iraq

MAHMOUD Abbas, the Palestinian president, is to sue Britain over its 1917 Balfour declaration that paved the way for the establishment of Israel in...

NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...

SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...

UN REFUGEE Agency UNHCR is concerned about Hungary’s new restrictive law, amid increased reports of violence, and a deterioration of the situation at border...

FOLLOWING publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War, the families of British soldiers who were killed during the war are preparing to...

CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...

‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...

‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst...

CHAGOS Islanders were left disappointed and angry on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected their legal challenge to be allowed to return to their...

TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...

‘I WANTED to pick the flowers not the weeds,’ says Michael Moore of his new film ‘Where to Invade Next’. The producers point out: ‘Michael...

THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...

IT would be a ‘very dangerous experiment’ for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn power, Tony Blair has told the BBC’s This...

GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...

AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...

MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) has ‘strongly condemned’ the UK plan to use gunboats to force would-be refugees back to Libya. Last...

SYRIANS on Sunday commemorated the 70th anniversary of Evacuation Day on Sunday (Syrian Independence Day, which marks the evacuation of French occupation forces from...

AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

MANY people were killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station on Tuesday morning. Two explosions hit...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the victory of the Syrian people and their allies in the war against terrorism would contribute to...

‘OPEN the doors, let them in!’ shouted trade unionists and youth and their families taking part in Saturday’s 8,000-strong Refugees Welcome, Anti-Racism national demonstration...

BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...

A TOTAL of 46 Palestinian detainees began an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday in protest against their improper living conditions, said a lawyer representing...

THE cessation of hostilities agreed last week is ‘a glimmer of hope for all Syrians,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said. n an interview with ARD...

REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...

TWO desperate refugees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves in central Athens’ Victoria Square on Thursday. With the EU states bordering Greece...

THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

WESTERN leaders and their allies have opened a donor conference in London with an urgent plea for billions of pounds in aid for refugees...

AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

ISRAEL''S defence minister has accused Turkey of buying oil from IS, thereby funding its activities. Speaking in Athens, Moshe Yaalon said IS had ‘enjoyed Turkish...

VICE President Joe Biden said on Saturday that if upcoming negotiations fail and no political solution to the civil war in Syria is possible,...

CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...

THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...

THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...

MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...