Rasa - Peace activists have launched an on-foot march from Berlin, Germany to Aleppo, Syria in hopes of building political pressure to end the fighting and help refugees there.

Rasa - The joint air defense and anti-aircraft war games by the Iranian Army and the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps are still underway nationwide.

Rasa - The international civil society continues to welcome a landmark United Nations Security Council vote demanding Israel stop building illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.

Rasa - For the first time in 36 years, the United Nations Security Council has passed a “non-binding” resolution criticizing Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories!

Rasa - Pope Francis says Christmas has been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the migrants and the war weary.

Rasa - Renowned American philosopher and political scientist Noam Chomsky says he was "frightened" by President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on "strengthening and expanding" nuclear capabilities in the US.

Rasa - With so many eyes locked on Aleppo, it is unlikely mainstream will identify Yemen as the next war theater, and pending grand battle against Wahhabist Saudi Arabia – and yet it is Southern Arabia which will determine how the kingdom’s ambitions will either rise or implode.

Rasa - We all know how the United Nations always tells the Palestinians everything is going to be fine, just to make them feel better. Well, the world body has just told them everything is going to be fine:

Rasa - If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Rasa - The Foreign Ministers of Iran, Russia, and Turkey met Tuesday in Moscow for high-profile talks on ending the war in Syria, with the three nations seeking to negotiate a ceasefire that would cover much of the country, and for which they would be the guarantors.