Sharp increase in Captagon drug trafficking in Gulf “funding wars”
Extremist organisations are using the proceeds of drug trafficking around the region, including in the Gulf to fund their wars. That’s according to experts at…
Syria
If we lose this generation, we lose Syria
When 10-year-old Rahaf Alewi remembers Syria, she does not think about the bombs that drove her family from their Aleppo home. She pictures their sunny…
Is Putin starting a nuclear war?
The weapons believed to be thermobaric tipped missiles have been fired from Russian rocket launchers, which have been spotted in Syria, according to The Sunday…
Why USA must respect diversity?
President Barak Obama’s speech at the seventy first session of the United Nations General Assembly on 20 September carries great significance. This is not only…
Russia ‘must face justice’ over Syria aid convoy attack
Russia should be hit with the “full weight of international law” if its planes are found to have killed 20 civilians in an aid convoy in Syria,…
Turkey Trying to ‘Break up Alliance Between US and Syrian Kurds’
Turkey is “trying basically to separate the US from the Kurds,” he said. This is why President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “hinting at the Turkish participation with the US…
France: Russia and Iran must end deadlock strategy in Syria
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Sunday that Russia and Iran would become accomplices in war crimes if they continue to prolong the war…
Johnson ‘war crimes’ slur provokes Russia
The United Kingdom’s foreign minister Boris Johnson has provoked a furious response from Russia after he said Moscow’s forces may be guilty of war crimes…
23 killed in Aleppo, UN meets over Syria
At least 23 civilians have been killed in renewed government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists say, as France and Britain’s Foreign…
Lavrov: US-Russian agreements on Syria must be saved
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the United Nations on Friday that US-Russian agreements aimed at ending the war in Syria must be salvaged as…