The state of Turkey as we know it today emerged from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, a region that encompassed the land we call the Middle East. However, having been the ruling center of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey’s role after World War I was much more influential over the other emerging nation states’ autonomy […]
This is the first of a two-part article highlighting the influence of Syria’s wealthiest businessman on the power structure of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as some of his contributions to the Syrian Conflict. Global media coverage of the Syrian conflict has a characteristic tendency to represent or depict the policies of the […]
This Syrian T-55 looks more ready to retake the Golan Heights circa 1967 than engage in modern mechanized combat. One of the reasons the Syrian civil war has been so destructive and violent is the utter amount of surplus military hardware that was kicking around the country. The last semi-accurate report by IISS stated that […]
Republic of Iraq History Humans have settled in what is now Iraq for thousands of years. Modern-day Iraq, however, is a much more recent entity, formally declaring independence from Great Britain in 1932. Previously the country had been part of the Ottoman Empire, but with the collapse of the Ottomans in WWI the land […]
2016 was atrocious. 2017 promises to be worse. In order to counter many of the awful narratives and the boundless lies surrounding the world’s hottest conflict zones, we will be remaking and remodeling this blog to better serve our readers. Posts in the past several months have been inconsistent at best, and that will change […]
All of us are painfully aware of the current situation in Syria, especially in and around Aleppo. For over 5 years a civil war has raged, a war which has claimed at least 470,000 lives. The real number is likely much, much higher, and will probably never fully be known. Millions of internally displaced persons […]
International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 4 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Continued from Parts 1, 2, and 3) Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the […]
ISIS in Iraq as of June 3rd, 2016 While most Americans were preoccupied with holiday celebrations in late December 2015, a battle was raging for control of the city of Ramadi, Iraq. Ramadi had been captured by Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in mid-May of 2015 and went relatively uncontested until late November of that year. In the […]
International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 2 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the multi-front Syrian Civil War we […]
