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Saudi Arabia has threatened to sue any Twitter user that compares the Kingdom’ decision to sentence a Palestinian poet to death, to the punishment meted out by ISIS. The country’s justice ministry announced that it will […]

Donald Trump’s claim that he saw thousands of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in Jersey City has been widely debunked in the media, but not many have bothered to point out the story on which […]

The United States is urging Turkey to seal off a 100-kilometer stretch of its border with Syria to block the movement of ISIS. The borderline is currently used by the terrorist group for transportation of […]

A leading Kurdish lawyer was shot dead on Saturday in southeast Turkey after unknown gunmen opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir. Tahir Elci, head of the bar in southeastern […]

Lebanon’s Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has claimed that Turkey shot down the Russian jet on orders from NATO, and would never have done so on their own accord.  Jumblatt, a member of parliament and leader […]

French authorities have arrested 24 climate change activists ahead of the UN climate change warming conference in Paris next week, citing the state of emergency powers and scrapping of the human rights convention as justification.  […]

France has decided to “opt out” of the European Human Rights Convention, citing the recent Paris attacks as justification for its extreme decision.  France is still in a state of emergency, with police raids being […]

Vladimir Putin has authorized Russia’s military to bring down the current Turkish government, which includes plans to rid Turkey of its leader President Recep Erdogan, in response to Turkey’s shooting down of the Russian Su-24 warplane.  […]

Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan has lashed out at Vladimir Putin, warning him not to “play with fire” in response to Putin’s accusation that the U.S. supplied Turkey with information about the flight path of its downed […]

Russia have said they have a renewed determination to completely obliterate ISIS in Syria, following the downing of Russian Su-24 jet by Turkey a few days ago.  Ex-general Sabit Muhammad told Russian media sources that Russia […]