Tag: Saddam Hussein
Acting Pentagon chief makes surprise Baghdad visit
AFP | Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan made an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital on Tuesday for talks on the sensitive issue of a continued...
Massive crowds mark 40th anniversary of Iran revolution
AFP | Iran's president on Monday insisted "enemy" plots against the country would fail as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution at...
Humanity through dehumanizing: Western biasness – Imran Jan
Imran Jan | “See, that is a drone right there”, the father pointed out to his young son inside the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C....
No one more desperate for peace in Afghanistan than Pakistan, says...
Sitwat Bokhari & Saddam Hussein | Afghanistan, for the first time in its almost 40 years' long conflict, is perhaps seeing a silver lining in the...
1979: A pivotal year in the Arab-Muslim world
AFP | A series of dramatic events swept across the Arab and Muslim worlds in 1979, the aftershocks of which still reverberate today, 40 years...
Saudi soft diplomacy: King hosts Iraq’s new President
AFP | Saudi King Salman welcomed Iraq's new President Barham Saleh Sunday on his first official visit to the kingdom, amid a warming of ties...
Incongruity of destiny and free will?
Saddam Hussein | The concept of ‘destiny and free will’ are one of the most misunderstood concepts in Islam. It is generally believed that destiny...
Saudi Arabia urged not to turn Iraq into ‘cold war’ front...
AFP | Saudi Arabia should avoid turning Iraq into a "battleground in a cold war" with its regional rival Tehran, the International Crisis Group said...
Elections 2018 in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Critical juncture ahead?
Sitwat Waqar Bokhari & Saddam Hussein | Elections 2018 in Pakistan and Afghanistan are being viewed as critical in the history of both countries. Elections...
The three weeks that toppled Saddam Hussein
AFP | It took just three weeks for the nearly 24-year regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to be toppled in 2003 after the first...
Sanctions are an act of war
Jacob G. Hornberger | If the Pentagon suddenly bombed North Korea, killing thousands of North Korean citizens, that would clearly be considered an act of war....
The Nuclear Crisis reaches a tipping point as Putin warns against...
News analysis | Russian President, Vladimir Putin has warned against the imposition of tougher sanctions and military pressure on Pyongyang as he feels that instead of...
Don’t be surprised to see Trump bomb North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | After the in-your-face Fourth of July “gift” that North Korea delivered to President Trump in the form of an intercontinental ballistic...
A mainstream dose of reality on Iraq: myths, falsehoods, and deceptions
Jacob G. Hornberger | Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, we have been hit with a multiplicity of bromides, myths, falsehoods, and...
Politics, not religion, is the source of Sunni-Shiite conflict
Nauman Sadiq l Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of Sunni-Shi’a conflict...
ISIS leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi killed: Who will be his successor?
Nauman Sadiq | The Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed that according to information, which is being checked through various channels, the Islamic State’s leader Abu-Bakr...
Trump & Syria: New President same old Imperialist strategy
Jacob G. Hornberger | With President Trump’s undeclared attack on Syria, a sovereign and independent nation, he has confirmed, once and for all, that he...
Protests on Soccer Fields: Another Regional Game to Weaken Iran?
Dr. James Dorsey | Thousands of Iranian Arabs last week attended an AFC Champions League soccer match between Esteghlal Ahvaz FC and Qatar’s Lekhwiya SC...
Welcome to the new era of authoritarian leaders: Putin, Erdogan, Modi,...
Holly Case | We might take the demonstrative demise of strongmen such as Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and – more recently and...
