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A file photo taken in March 2014 shows an Iraqi Kurd man walking in a graveyard for the victims of a gas attack by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish town of Halabja, 300km northeast of Baghdad. Some 2.4 million people are said to have been killed or died since the US invasion in 2003. Photo: AFP / Safin Hamed

Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Shock and Awe revisited, as fighting drags on in Syria’s Ghouta

by Pepe Escobar March 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Mike Pompeo. Photo: AFP

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Pompeo will do Trump’s bidding with regard to the Middle East

by Sami Moubayed March 19, 2018February 18, 2020

Mike Pompeo testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Worldwide Threats' on Feb. 13, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

European Union, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Pompeo’s rise ups odds of Middle East war

by Gregory Aftandilian March 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Donald Trump's now former Secretary of State confers with the president in October 2017. Photo: Reuters

Afghanistan, China, European Union, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, World

The Trump Doctrine’s search for a Trump Team goes on

by David P. Goldman March 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Bashar al-Assad grafitti. Photo: Flickr Commons

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, Syria, Turkey, World

No hope for Syria while Assad remains in power

by M Shamsur Rabb Khan March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

A file shot from Sept 2010 showing Lebanese women walking along the Beirut Corniche late in the afternoon. Photo: iStock

Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, World

111 women running in May election but Lebanon cool on female politicians

by Sami Moubayed March 12, 2018February 18, 2020

UN soldiers look out on a post at Mount Avital, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the Israeli-Syrian border on February 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad

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Israel repeats past mistakes as it creates buffer zone in Syria

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim March 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Kuwait. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Philippines, Syria

Manila, Kuwait set to finalize pact on workers’ protection

by Asia Times staff March 2, 2018February 18, 2020

The Duterte government has banned Filipinos from working in Kuwait because of the gross abuse workers such as Demafelis have endured. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Philippines, Syria

Maid was ‘unconscious before being stuffed into freezer’

by Asia Times staff February 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches a persimmon presented to him by Israeli youth movement members at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Gali Tibbon

Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, World

Netanyahu’s Faustian dilemma

by Shalom Lipner February 28, 2018February 18, 2020

MobilExxon is among the groups wanting to drill in the eastern Mediterranean in areas near Cyprus. With talk of pipelines being built to Europe, regional powers also want to clarify the status of seabed areas around the island. Photo: iStock

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Showdown over drilling vessel off Cyprus could spur more talks

by Jonathan Gorvett February 27, 2018February 18, 2020

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wears a hardhat at the country's customs bureau. Photo: AFP/Ted Aljibe

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Does Duterte really care about overseas workers?

by Analiza Liezl Perez-Amurao February 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Lebanon Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Philippines, Syria

Employer of Filipina maid ‘found dead in freezer’ arrested

by Asia Times staff February 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Tehran protest December 2017. Photo: Flickr Commons

China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Iran protests: a ‘gray zone’ of opportunity

by Andrew Brennan February 23, 2018February 23, 2018

Lebanon's Energy Minister, Cesar Abi Khalil (second right), exchanges contracts with Stephane Michel, Total's head of exploration and production in the Middle East and North Africa during a signing ceremony in Beirut on February 9. Photo: AFP/Anwar Amro

France, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Lebanon willing to use force to resolve oil row with Israel

by Sami Moubayed February 20, 2018February 18, 2020

USA and Syrian flag in grunge and vintage style. Photo: iStock

Egypt, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

Ending America’s disastrous role in Syria

by Jeffrey D. Sachs February 19, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Kremlin via Reuters

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US keen on Russia distancing itself from Iran’s Syrian ambitions

by David P. Goldman February 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Illustration: iStock

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China will not fall into the ‘Thucydides Trap’ with India

by Pepe Escobar February 12, 2018February 18, 2020

Kuwait. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Mikael Lindmark

AT Finance, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Philippines, Syria

Kuwait, Interpol hunt couple over slaying of Filipino maid

by Asia Times staff February 12, 2018February 18, 2020

A member of Israeli security personnel inspects fragments of a Syrian anti-aircraft missile found in Alonei Abba, about two miles from where the remains of a crashed F-16 Israeli war plane were found in the village of Alonei Abba, in Israel, on February 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ronen Zvulun

AT Finance, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Vietnam, World

Plane’s downing sends message to Iran as well as Israel

by Sami Moubayed February 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Israeli security forces walk next to the remains of an F-16 Israeli war plane near the Israeli village of Harduf, Israel on February 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Herzie Shapira

Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Downing of fighter jet damages Israel’s strategic position

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim February 11, 2018February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump applauds during his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Win McNamee/Pool

China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

After a year of Donald Trump: good news and bad news

by Norman A. Bailey February 6, 2018

Deep inside the Catacombs of Paris. Photo: iStock

Afghanistan, AT Finance, China, European Union, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Syria, Turkey, World

Guidance from the Ghost of Richelieu

by Spengler February 5, 2018February 5, 2018

Israeli F-16s perform an exhibition exercise during an Independence Day show on April 06, 2014, in Netanya, Israel. Photo: iStock

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Air strikes in Sinai underscore Israel’s tightening alliance with Arab states

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim February 5, 2018

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya delivers a speech on December 7, 2017. Photo: AFP / Said Khatib

Egypt, European Union, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, World

US calling Hamas leader a ‘terrorist’ – does it actually help him?

by Sami Moubayed February 5, 2018February 18, 2020

The Indian Army has Russian-made T-90 tanks. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Afghanistan, China, European Union, Germany, India, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, United Kingdom, World

A lesson for Kim Jong-un: tank warfare is changing fast

by Stephen Bryen February 2, 2018

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Photo: Flickr Commons

AT Finance, Egypt, European Union, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Singapore, World

Palestinian refugees: Trump reignites lingering debate

by Alexander Casella February 2, 2018

Vladimir Putin fires a sport gun at a sports complex outside Sochi on March 9, 2012. Photo: AFP/Ria Novosti/Alexey Druzhinin

AT Finance, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam, World

Putin’s Sochi conference on Syria looks to be a talking shop

by Sami Moubayed January 29, 2018February 18, 2020

Steven Spielberg poses on the red carpet before the European premiere of the The Post, in London, on January 10, 2018. Photo: AFP / Daniel Leal-Olivas

AT Finance, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Vietnam, World

Attempt to ban Spielberg film raises liberals’ fears in Lebanon

by Sami Moubayed January 23, 2018February 18, 2020

China, European Union, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, World

Unpredictable perhaps, but certainly not a madman

by Leon Hadar January 16, 2018

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