Rasa - Republican Senator Bob Corker is way off the line to concede that it is likely that the US will have ground troops in Afghanistan through at least another decade.

Rasa - Another bogus Pentagon report on civilian death tolls in Iraq and Syria has been released, and as usual dramatically underreports the true death toll of an increasingly aggressive and criminal air campaign in densely populated cities.

Rasa - As people in Yemen are dying and President Donald Trump lashes out at Iran’s virtually non-existent involvement, a new bipartisan bill by Congress directs the president to end all US military participation in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Rasa - As a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Yemen, the United Nations must finally begin to put people before politics – and funds.

Rasa - Upon his assumption of office in late January, the US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on foreign travels to the US, banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entry to the US. The ban was deemed highly irrational and discriminatory, and drew the American citizens' protests that pushed temporary suspension of the controversial order at the hand of Seattle Judge James Robart.

Rasa - A human rights group says some state religious scholars and institutions in Saudi Arabia incite hatred and discrimination against religious minorities, including the country's Shiite Muslim minority.

Rasa - Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), has claimed that “Yes” won Monday’s non-binding independence referendum. Far from it.

Rasa - In the coverage that followed the Monday secession vote in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the media focused on the statements made by Iraqi, Iranian and Kurdish officials - and the rest of the international community - that this was a bad idea.

Rasa - Iran’s Parliament has dismissed the result of the highly controversial Kurdish secession vote in Iraq. The legislative body sees the move as destabilizing Iraq and neighboring countries at the very moment when ISIL and its self-declared caliphate are being defeated.

Rasa - The Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has recently published a report on the Israeli military status in which it talked about the army’s lack of readiness for the potential wars in the future.