Rasa - In the initial months of the Syria crisis eruption in 2011, Damascus came under heavy fire and pressures of the opponent countries from the Arab world.

Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, referred to the regional and international opposition to the referendum in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, warning that the region should be waiting for war after the Monday voting.

Rasa - For the first time since President Trump’s inauguration, the US has carried out airstrikes inside Libya, bombing what they describe as an ISIL camp within central Libya, southeast of Sirte. 17 people were killed, and per usual, the US claims all were ISIL.

Rasa - The Saudi Foreign Minister has once again hinted at rapprochement between Arabs and the Israeli regime echoing remarks by the regime’s premier Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rasa - The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood.

Rasa - North Korea was doing fine until President Donald Trump and his warmongering cabal showed up.

Rasa - Leading the kingdom’s delegation to New York to take part in the 72th United Nations General Assembly, the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir met with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and discussed the Persian Gulf Arab crisis. Al-Jubeir, calling the Qataris “brothers”, said the key for a solution to the crisis with the four Arab states was in the hands of the Qatar.

Rasa - In past few days, the Palestinian political scene has witnessed a variety of developments, all signaling changes in the approaches of the major groups' leaders who seek defusing the tensions in the way to give a chance to the national unity government initiative to go ahead.

Rasa - On Friday, September 22, Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile during a military parade in Tehran that marks the first day of the Sacred Defense Week. The week commemorates the anniversary of the outbreak of Iraq’s imposed war on Iran in the 1980s.

Rasa - Despite international condemnations and calls for halting the indiscriminate airstrikes and air war, the United States government has escalated military operations across the Afghan and ISIL wars. It has also granted an ever-growing level of autonomy to the Pentagon regime and military commanders.