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3 weeks ago | dawnmena.org | Frederick Deknatel

The euphoria that erupted across Syria after the sudden fall of the Assad regime in early December has since given way to harsh realities—of sectarian violence, the dual traumas of a 14-year civil war and a 54-year dictatorship, and creeping doubts about Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Islamist rebel-turned-statesman. When Bashar al-Assad abruptly fled Damascus for Moscow in the face of a lightning rebel offensive, Syrians celebrated the end of a war and the end of a regime.

3 weeks ago | dawnmena.org | Juan Cole

In 1917, the British Cabinet had been convinced by London Zionists, proponents of turning Judaism into a form of nationalism that sought to colonize a territory, to issue the Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild, saying, "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice...

1 month ago | dawnmena.org | Mohammed Ali Kalfood

On his third day back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order re-designating Houthi rebels in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization. He ordered the Pentagon to start preparing military plans against the militant group and imposed sanctions on Houthi leaders, along with their main backer, Iran. Then, on March 15, Trump announced a new U.S. bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen that has now continued for 10 days.

1 month ago | dawnmena.org | Assal Rad

It is often said that hindsight is 20/20, that we understand something better after it has already happened. That is certainly the case with the war in Iraq, which had support across the political spectrum in Washington and among the majority of Americans in the lead-up to the invasion, 22 years ago this month. Years later, the consensus is clear that the war was a significant U.S. blunder, launched based on fabrications and lies from George W. Bush's administration.

2 months ago | dawnmena.org | Mohammed Ali Kalfood

When Donald Trump entered the White House in January 2017, Yemen's civil war had been raging for three years and had already produced the world's worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. When his first term was coming to an end in 2020, the situation in Yemen got even worse.