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Eight years of prolonged US-Supported War in Yemen leave over 20 million people in need of urgent health assistance

With eight years of protracted conflict and humanitarian crisis, over two thirds of Yemen's population -- 21.6 million people -- are in acute need of humanitarian assistance, including over 20 million people requiring urgent health…
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‘A horrible vote’: Congress revisits one of its gravest mistakes, the Iraq War

This past week was the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the beginning of a war that went on for years. Television marked the anniversary with film of the opening air attack on Baghdad — rockets, bombs, a “shock and…
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US treasury secretary says sanctions on Iran failed to achieve ‘ideal’ result

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week acknowledged that US sanctions on Iran have not succeeded in forcing Tehran to change its policies and behavior as demanded by Washington but still have managed to create a “real economic…

Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War (The United States in the World)

by William Michael Schmidli William Michael Schmidli is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University. Schmidli’s research focuses on the evolving significance of human rights, democracy promotion, and transnational…
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Iraq Needs No Foreign Forces on Its Territory: MP

Noting that Iraq’s law-making body has voted on the withdrawal of foreign forces, member of Iraqi Parliament Ali Naama said that there are efforts to implement the decision and achieve full sovereignty for the nation by the withdrawal of…
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US imposed sanctions, banking restrictions primary cause of Afghanistan’s ongoing economic crisis: Taliban

Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister under the caretaker Taliban regime, Amir Khan Muttaqi in an op-ed for Al Jazeera, said that the primary cause of the ongoing economic crisis in the country is the imposition of sanctions and banking restrictions…
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Double Standards: International Criminal Court Prosecution Reserved For US Enemies, Not For US & Allies

Was it a ‘sick joke’ as one commentator suggested for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue a warrant of arrest against Russian President Putin on the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq? And what does it mean for South…
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Iran Condemns France for ‘Repression’ of Protests

Iran on Friday condemned what it called France's repression of protests after more than 450 people were arrested and nearly as many police were injured in demonstrations against pension reforms. Protesters clashed with French security forces…
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UK accused of ‘washing its hands’ of Iraqi refugees

When Tony Blair appeared on Iraqi television days after US forces, supported by the UK, captured Baghdad, his aim was to reassure citizens and offer them hope. “My experience of people the world over is that we all want to be able to live…
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Opinion: Iraq war 20 years on: how the role of empire and imperialism in the Middle East has been misconstrued

Before the US-led coalition’s occupation of Iraq starting in March 2003, there was at least one subject upon which certain advocates and opponents of the war agreed: that the invasion was imperialistic. Both sides weaponised the historical…