Rasa - Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, didn’t always have to preen himself for a staged appearance with tech executives in San Francisco or a meeting with the Russian president in Moscow. Until January 2015, when his father king made him Saudi Arabia’s defense minister at a young age of 29, MBS, as he is sometimes called, was one among the thousands of royal princes who dimly dot the Saudi Arabian social landscape.

Rasa - The United States and its separatist proxy forces cruelly destroyed civilian infrastructure and occupied the city of Raqqa after capturing it from ISIL.

Rasa - Iran's leading military commander in Iraq and Syria Major General Qassem Soleimani once said the West is paying a heavy security price for supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East.

Rasa - For obvious reasons the Syrian government has rejected a bogus report sent to the United Nations Security Council that blamed it for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in April in which dozens of people were killed.

Rasa - The main border crossing between Iraq and Syria, the city of Albu Kamal on the Syrian side and al-Qaim on the Iraqi side, is the last major territorial possession of ISIL and its medieval caliphate. It is also the next big target for both Syria and Iraq’s militaries and their Iranian-Russian allies.

Rasa - Deliberately cut off from imports and international aid, and under a ceaseless US-backed Saudi bombardment, Yemen has turned into one of the worst humanitarian crises of modern times.

Rasa - It is premature to get excited over the news that some US House lawmakers are supporting a bill to halt Washington’s military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen.

Rasa - According to a top-secret National Security Agency document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ongoing violence and war on Syria was directly ordered by Saudi Arabia, more specifically, a member of the royal family, Prince Salman bin Sultan, to help the Free Syrian Army affect regime change in Damascus.

Rasa - When it comes to ensuring peace and security in post-ISIL Syria, there’s no right or left, and certainly no middle at the United Nations. There’s just International Law and commonsense.

Rasa - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has a lot on his plate these days. While anticipating an end to the fight against ISIL, he said Sunday it was time for Iranian-backed militias to exit the war-torn nation of Iraq.