Terrorism & Extremism

By Shehab Al Makahleh •  The United States, Russia and Jordan have agreed to foster a cease-fire in a limited area of southwestern Syria that will begin at noon on Sunday July 9, 2017. The cease-fire agreement was announced Friday by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and his Russian …

By Shehab Al Makahleh • Recent ceasefire agreement reached by representatives of Russia, Iran and Turkey ― as guarantors ― on establishment of four ‘safe zones’ in Syria, during latest round of Astana peace talks on May 4, has an important strategic aspect to it, especially from the military …

There are too many red flags about the chemical weapons attack in northern Syria to believe the official version of events that immediately assigned guilt to the Assad government. Each of the red flags, on the other hand, strongly suggests that the incident was (yet another) false flag …

By Shehab Al-Makahleh • Today’s terrorist attack on St. Petersburg’s metro is one in a long line of deadly terrorist attacks that have targeted Russia since 1995. The estimates put the number of terrorist attacks in Russia in this period at over 800, with a death toll of more …

by Thierry Meyssan • President Trump’s desire to fight Daesh and to put an end to international terrorism is going to be extremely difficult to implement. Indeed, it will cause damage to the states who organised it, and implies a reorientation of international politics. The new President of the …

The fingerprints of Islamic State were all over the incident outside the British parliament, and more of the same can be expected As a journalist, it is the height of good luck to find yourself purely by coincidence, at the site of a major breaking news event. That …