Saudi Arabia Hires Child-Soldiers From War-Torn Sudan For Yemen Campaign
The use of foreign-born recruits or mercenaries for combat operations by the military and paramilitary forces of the Gulf States hasContinue Reading
Tag: Syria
From The US-Backed War In Yemen To The US-Ally Israel And Segregated Palestine
No one can doubt the baleful influence of the Russian Federation in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East. The annexationContinue Reading
Russian Mercenaries Suffer Losses In Syria, As US And Russia Clashes
The latest reports of Russian casualties in the Syrian war serve to underline the international character of the conflict. ItContinue Reading
The Vietnam War And The War On Terror
An article for the current affairs website TomDispatch by Danny Sjursen, a serving officer in the United States Armed Forces andContinue Reading
Turkish Military Helicopter Dodges Kurdish ATGW Missile Attack
A very narrow escape for a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during recent border clashes between the interventionist Turkish military andContinue Reading
The Improvised Drone Attacks On Khmeimim And Tartus, Russian Military Bases In Syria
If one accepts the official statement by the Kremlin – and a great deal of online speculation – the 5th-6thContinue Reading
Hezbollah, Barack Obama And Syria
The news and current affairs website, Politico, has published a number of claims by former government officials in the UnitedContinue Reading
The United States Has Spent $1.46 Trillion On War-Fighting Since 2001
Over the last few years I’ve published several articles examining the financial costs of the United States’ global “War onContinue Reading
Kurds To Vote On Independence In Referendum
Here’s an upcoming event which is receiving relatively little attention in the Western press, despite its potential importance for theContinue Reading
Israel Upgrades Tank-APC As Middle East Becomes Military Laboratory
Though the dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad supposedly entered the Syrian civil war with some 5000 tanks, mainly of RussianContinue Reading
Armed Drones Of The Islamic State In Syria And Iraq
The open-source analysis site, Bellingcat, has published a detailed article on the use of improvised armed drones by the Islamic State (IS) inContinue Reading
The War On Terror Has Simply Generated More Terror
From the excellent TomDispatch, this analysis of the so-called “War on Terror” in the Middle East by the United StatesContinue Reading
An Islamic State Drone Bombs An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank In Iraq
Talking of the Islamic State (IS), this recent propaganda video released by the group highlights its deployment of improvised drones in theContinue Reading
The Obama Regime
Another guest post by Déaghán Ó Céitinn, currently resident in Perth, Australia, where he is active with Cairde Sinn Féin. The Obama RegimeContinue Reading
On Sustainability
A guest post by Déaghán Ó Céitinn examining sustainability and the challenges posed by a deteriorating global environment. Currently resident inContinue Reading
The Battle Of Mosul Becomes Wartainment
The ongoing military contest for the city of Mosul, the formerly populous town in northern Iraq held by the Islamic State since 2014,Continue Reading
Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s Cold War Warrior
So I’ve just discovered that at some stage during the day, between going to work this morning and returning home this evening, the island of Ireland was hurtled backContinue Reading
Bomb-Dropping Drones In The Syrian Civil War
In previous posts I’ve referred to the militarisation of relatively cheap civilian drones by a number of armed groups participating in theContinue Reading
What Is Aleppo?
One doubts that Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in the United States, is going to get over this on-airContinue Reading
Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na mBan, A Message From Syria On The 8th Amendment
The International Freedom Battalion (IFB) is one of the more unusual armed groups participating in the Syrian civil war. Primarily composed of left-wingContinue Reading
The United States Has Supplied 1.4 Million Guns To Iraq And Afghanistan
The commercial value of the so-called “War on Terror” to the arms industries of the United States and the UnitedContinue Reading
History Is Written By The Victors, Even When They Lose
The common maxim, “history is written by the victors“, is a favourite one among writers and journalists trying to elucidate the contested pasts of colonisedContinue Reading
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