By Ryan Rodrick Beiler on October 23, 2015
Hashem al-Azzeh harvests his family’s olives October 2012. Ryan Rodrick Beiler Active Stills
Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces. According to Palestinian media reports, al-Azzeh, who suffered from a heart condition, began feeling chest pains while in his home in the Israeli-controlled Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the occupied West Bank city. (more…)
October 18, 2015
Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, including four command posts, six arms depots, a mortar battery, two underground bunkers, 32 field camps and six outposts. (more…)
By Bill Van Auken on October 13, 2015
Just days after terminating its disastrously failed program to arm and train US-backed “rebels” in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday that US Air Force C-17 cargo planes escorted by fighter jets airdropped some 50 tons of arms, ammunition and grenades to anti-government forces. (more…)
October 13, 2015
We are a group of Palestinian, Arab and International figures, who greatly appreciate and admire the inexhaustible creativity and sacrifice in their defense of their dignity and independence. (more…)
By Jon Schwarz on October 7, 2015
February 13, 1991, Air Raid Shelter, Amiriyah, Iraq
On October 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz, Afghanistan, partially destroying it. Twelve staff members and 10 patients, including three children, were killed, and 37 people were injured. (more…)
By Rania Khalek on October 9, 2015
A Palestinian schoolgirl being arrested by Israeli soldiers. Photo: Muhesen Amren APA images
As Israel ramps up its deadly attacks on Palestinians, mainstream US media outlets are actively concealing the alarming displays of genocidal racism emanating from Israeli Jewish society. (more…)
Local Editor on October 6, 2015
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Saudi Arabia will be dealt a severe, historic blow in Yemen, stressing that victory was definite for the Yemeni people. (more…)
October 11, 2015
Thousands of Turkish citizens gathered in central Ankara a day after twin bombings targeted a peace rally in the city, killing over a hundred civilians in an attack that demonstrators and mourners blamed squarely on the government of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (more…)