Tehran’s support for the Houthis is minimal at best, and its influence in Yemen is non-existent. It is simply inaccurate to state that the Zaidi Houthis are Shia Iranian proxies. By Muhammed Ali Carter. (Oct. 23, 2016)

In phone calls, meetings and cables, America’s European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump’s public statements denying Moscow’s role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election. They fear the Republican nominee for president has emboldened the Kremlin in its unprecedented cybercampaign to disrupt elections in multiple countries in hopes of weakening Western alliances, according to intelligence, law enforcement and other government officials in the United States and Europe.

It has become a destabilizing force in the Near East. By Philip Garaldi.

On Monday evening, Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, met with a group of American reporters and researchers at his palace in Damascus. By Dexter Filkins.

No ally's fate is important enough for the United States to risk a nuclear war. By Christopher Layne.

The General Assembly voted Russia off the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its atrocities in Syria.

“The ‘no fly zone’ that Clinton wants to impose over Syria would mean war with Russia from the very second it was implemented.” By Glen Ford.

The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict – and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate, writes Daniel Lazare.

"The Syrian people have endured horrors and face challenges beyond comprehension. Yet these tragic realities do not warrant intervention by the United States." By Rajan Menon.

Russia's deputy defence minister reveals country is 'reconsidering' the closure of bases in Vietnam and Cuba.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the EU and the world’s biggest economies not to recognize Russia’s upcoming parliamentary elections, which treat Crimea as Russian territory. This month Russians will elect 450 lawmakers to parliament, for the first time since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The U.N. does not recognize the Russian government in Crimea as legitimate and Ukraine has protested any moves or statements that treat Russia’s authority on Crimea as anything but an illegal occupation.

The main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and China. By Mike Whitney.

Pakistan has told all three million Afghan refugees within its borders to leave - causing chaos on its borders, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports.

“The question then is, What is the absolute minimum of military action—what I am calling ‘a thousand balls of fire,’ named after George Bush Senior’s ‘a thousand points of light’—to restore peace on terms favorable to Russia?” By Dmitry Orlov.

International tensions have in recent years often led to conflicts between nations, leaving countries to face complicated choices. The world is under constant change, and the most direct results ar...

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen. By Andrew Cockburn.

The study, commissioned by the US Army, provides further evidence that a war with China is being planned and prepared in the upper echelons of the American military-intelligence apparatus.

What would a war between Russia and the USA look like?

Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO's chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails revealed. The efforts served to intensify the conflict between the West and Russia. By Christoph Schult and Klaus Wiegrefe.

He’s challenging 70 years of US foreign policy – and they hate him for it! By Justin Raimondo.