Tag: syria

ON 3 November Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke in Beirut’s Southern Suburb to mark the occasion of Ashura – a major Shi’i festival...

ON April 30th 2009 the British army left Basra in Iraq for Afghanistan. This was after negotiating their retreat from Iraq’s second city with...

THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s XI session on ‘The World Order: New...

THIS IS the text of a speech by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, at the centenary commemoration of the founding of the Irish Neutrality League...

A SYRIAN Electricity Ministry official said on Thursday that a worker was killed and four others were injured in an explosion of a landmine...

‘I DO NOT think that the West has relinquished its colonial mentality,’ Syrian president Assad said in a recent interview, while the US and...

TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that if it wasn’t for ‘Iran’s support (for Iraq) and presence’ in fighting the group calling...

FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg offered to help the British government in securing the release of hostage Alan Henning from Islamic State (IS)...

DEPUTY Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr Faysal Miqdad said on Friday that the Syrian people, who are confronting terrorism with epic steadfastness, have the...

FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

‘DON’T bomb Iraq! Don’t attack Syria! – How can we fund a war when we can’t feed the poor!’ Shouted marchers in the pouring...

THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...

TURKEY is poised to join the US-led war to remove the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as well as having its own agenda...

TORY Home Secretary May’s plans to ban democratic rights, that she proposed to the Tory party conference yesterday, was condemned as ‘worthy of a...

THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...

‘WASHINGTON has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests,’ Russian...

SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...

PARLIAMENT has been recalled from its summer break today especially to vote on whether the UK will join the US-led air strikes against ISIL...

TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...

INDIRECT talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials will continue in the last week of October, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday. Izzat al-Rishaq said...

YESTERDAY US president Barak Obama finally launched the air and missile strikes he has been threatening inside Syria without the agreement of the Syrian...

LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...

THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...

IRAN is proud of the fact that the USA opposes its involvement in the coalition against the Islamic State, a senior Iranian MP has...

UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

FOLLOWING the release of a video showing the killing of hostage David Haines by Islamic State militants, PM Cameron yesterday announced ‘five points’, for...

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Turkey last Thursday to seek support for more military action against Islamic State (IS) fighters in...

US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...

SPEAKING in a House of Commons debate on Wednesday, former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke described the US-UK Iraq invasion as ‘disastrous’ and a ‘catastrophe’, which...

THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...

THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...

CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

THE first poll of the Clacton constituency, where a by-election is due, shows that ex-Tory MP Carswell, who is standing for UKIP,...

UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...

DAMASCUS – Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, said in Damascus that Syria is prepared to cooperate and coordinate on...

BRITISH Home Secretary May, driven by the desperate home and foreign policy crisis of British imperialism, is lashing out at basic rights in the...

HOME SECRETARY May is set to bring in special measures to deal with British terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq, where they were allowed...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...

PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...

PRIME Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has reaffirmed Algeria’s firm intention not to intervene militarily in Libya, citing the Algerian Constitution ‘which prohibits our troops from...

THE US on Tuesday organised its own coup in Baghdad, attempting to place the previous long-term Maliki ally, Haidar al-Abadi, into the office of...