U.S. to resume military aid to Bahrain despite human rights criticism
IB Times reports: The United States said on Monday that it would lift its ban on providing security and military aid to Bahrain, which was imposed after the Gulf state cracked down on Shia-led protests...
View ArticleMost of the drivers of regional destruction have little to do with...
Rami G Khouri writes: [Regional] destruction is painfully visible every day in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain, and Yemen, at the very least. This spectacle of multiple fragmenting states is...
View ArticleThe ‘sectarianization’ of the Middle East
Laurie Taylor in conversation with Danny Postel (co-author of Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East) and Patrick Cockburn.
View ArticleBahrain pipeline explosion seen as a warning from Iran
Simon Henderson writes: Saudi crude oil is reported to be flowing again through the Bahrain pipeline damaged by an explosion late on November 10. No one was injured in the blast, which sent a plume of...
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