Rasa - Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the November gun battle between Israeli troops and ISIL forces along the Golan frontier was followed up with an ISIL “apology.”

Rasa - Defense Secretary James Mattis did strike the right chord when he offered the same assessment that Pentagon officials have been offering on the Afghan War for the past 16 years: “It’s going to be a tough year.”

Rasa - Given the successful anti-terror campaign by allied forces of Iran, Syria and Russia in defeating terrorism, there is the global opportunity to speak truth to power, to save the world from the scourge of war and terrorism, and to prevent and remove the threats to common peace and security.

Rasa - The issue of America’s war of choice and grandiose thinking in the Middle East is putting the entire world in danger. It has become deeply entangled with lingering resentments from the world community.

Rasa - The Trump White House doctrine to escalate the war on Syria is really all about killing civilians and supporting terror proxy forces with global reach. It has also poisoned American political culture with various manifestations of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and other forms of racism and bigotry.

Rasa - According to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, war criminal is someone who commits war crimes, such as genocide, murdering civilians, or mistreatment of prisoners of war, in violation of the conventions of warfare.

Rasa - On Thursday, April 20, a French police was shot dead and two others injured in Paris in a terrorist attack claimed by ISIL. The terrorist group has identified the attacker as “Abu Yousif, the Belgian.”

Rasa - It is the belief of many pundits in the United States that there is a mass outbreak of mental illness among the political class in Washington.

Rasa - With 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian aid, including 10.3 million requiring immediate assistance, Yemen is now the second largest humanitarian crisis in the world, after Syria.

Rasa - Amid heightened rhetoric of Saudi Arabian and other Arab officials against the Iranian role in the region over the past week, the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday as part of a regional tour that also will see him visiting other countries such as Egypt, Qatar, Djibouti, and the Israeli regime.