Iran’s Assembly of Experts which is responsible for electing and overseeing the work of Iran’s supreme leader has chosen hard-liner Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati as its leader. (FULL STORY) (more…)
The Kurds are raising an army to protect their newly-declared autonomous region. And if the performance of Kurdish fighters in the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (more…)
National Security Advisor Susan Rice said President Barack Obama has come to the realization that the United States must respond to the Russian gambit to spread its influence throughout (more…)
By Jack Caravelli Russian president Vladimir Putin’s use of Russian conventional forces to destabilize Ukraine and prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime certainly got the attention of Western (more…)
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent decision to withdraw most but not all of Russian military forces operating in Syria was another in a string of surprises that appear to (more…)