May 14, 2017

Press Statement on Bashar Assad’s Regime use of Sarin nerve agent on innocent civilians

Articles, Middle East, Syria / May 14, 2017

Citizens International is deeply appalled and shocked by the inhumane use of the banned chemical weapon by Bashar Assad’s regime on Syria’s innocent civilians. This incident occurred on the 4th of April in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, northwestern Syria. Footage of the aftermath of the attack, in the media, exhibited victims convulsing, struggling […]

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Children of Gaza

CI Eye, Middle East, Palestine, Pictures / May 14, 2017

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Moqtada al-Sadr urges Assad to quit

Blogs, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Syria / May 14, 2017

Shia Iraqi cleric condemns killing of 87 people in the suspected chemical attack in a rebel-held Syrian town Sadr meeting with advisers in Baghdad’s green zone in 2016 (AFP) raqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling on Washington and Moscow to stop intervening in the

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In Egypt, twin bombings and double trouble

Egypt, Middle East, Perspective / May 14, 2017

By Amr Khalifa Sisi’s emergency law will do little to counter the Islamic State, but it will legalise his dream: full dictatorship without pretense Twin bombings, pools of blood, at least 44 dead: it’s a week before Easter and both Christian and Muslim Egyptians find themselves in the middle of deadly standoff between the Islamic State

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Egyptian lawyer jailed for 10 years for Facebook post

Blogs, CI, Egypt, Featured, Middle East / May 14, 2017

Amnesty International denounced the sentence as ‘harsh’ (AFP) An Egyptian court sentenced a lawyer to 10 years in jail for insulting the president and “inciting terrorism” in a Facebook post, a judicial official said on Thursday. The court in the coastal city of Alexandria also sentenced the defendant, Mohammed Ramadan, to five years’ house arrest

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America, From Exceptionalism to Nihilism

America, Perspective / May 14, 2017

By PANKAJ MISHRA MASHOBRA, India — “The world is going America’s way,” Fareed Zakaria wrote in 2008. “Countries are becoming more open, market friendly and democratic.” Since the fall of communism, American leaders in politics, business and journalism have repeatedly broadcast the conceit that we live, or will soon live, in the best of all

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Press Statement on Bashar Assad’s Regime use of Sarin nerve agent on innocent civilians

Children of Gaza

Moqtada al-Sadr urges Assad to quit

In Egypt, twin bombings and double trouble

Egyptian lawyer jailed for 10 years for Facebook post

America, From Exceptionalism to Nihilism

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