Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 28, 2015
Thirty-eight revelers are dead after Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels hit a wedding party Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 2, 2015
Interviews with more than a dozen former FBI, CIA and other federal officials found compelling evidence that the 1996 bombing of a US Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia was carried out by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida -- not Iran-supported Saudi Hezbollah, as U officials claim. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigAug 14, 2015
Why would someone who sees the Middle East as an unholy mess reveal that he consults George W. Bush, the chief mess-maker, on what to do next? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigMay 28, 2015
Shiite militias in Iraq have changed the name of their current campaign to take Ramadi from Islamic State from “I am here, O Husayn" to “I am here, O Iraq," since the former could have been interpreted as a sign of sectarianism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMay 27, 2015
A suicide bomber with a concealed weapon detonated his payload during Friday prayers at the Ali b. Abi Talib Mosque in Qadif, a suburb of the major Shiite city of Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMay 27, 2015
Shiite militias in Iraq, joined by some Sunni tribal levies, on Tuesday reached a university campus just to the southwest of Ramadi in what is called a “shaping operation” intended to set the stage for an all-out assault. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMay 20, 2015
Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi met Tuesday with leaders of the Shiite militias to plan the retaking of Ramadi, a Sunni Arab city about 78 miles due west of Baghdad that fell on Sunday to the Islamic State group. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMar 18, 2015
The foremost Sunni Muslim seat of learning, al-Azhar University in Cairo, has stirred controversy by issuing a considered legal opinion condemning the Shiite militias or “Popular Mobilization Forces” that are now fighting alongside the Iraq army to take Tikrit back from the Islamic State group. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMar 12, 2015
The Iraqi forces that are surrounding Tikrit 80 miles north of Baghdad are not just Iraqi forces. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 24, 2015
Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has launched an all out political offensive against the Shiite Houthi rebels who have taken over the north of the country. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 18, 2015
Islamic State (aka Daesh) fighters unsuccessfully moved Monday on Kirkuk and Erbil, two cities patrolled by Iraq's Kurdish paramilitary, the Peshmerga. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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