“Ramallah, West Bank – Said Nafaa, a former Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, will on Sunday begin serving a one-year jail sentence for travelling to “an enemy state”, after a second […]

“With just days to go to Turkey’s snap general election on Nov. 1, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has again voiced his clear preference for having a “single-party government” elected to rule the […]

U.S. Embassy Statement on a Media Report by Star Newspaper Press Release – October 30, 2015 Star newspaper’s claim today (October 30, 2015) that the HDP’s election campaign strategy was determined at […]

The international community is not happy with the U.S. allowing Russia to take the lead in Syria and in controlling the gas and oil pipelines and lifelines from Saudi into Europe.  By […]

“Bashar al-Assad held talks in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin in the Syrian president’s first official foreign visit since the civil war in his country erupted in 2011, underscoring the growing Russian […]

“Iraq’s ruling alliance and powerful Shi’ite militias have urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to request Russian air strikes on Islamic State militants, who control large parts of the country, members of the […]

“Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that many Kurdish media have been attacked in connection with a political crisis in the past few days in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, […]

11 SEP 15 NEC-SE posted the article: Refugees are The New Oil Field for Turkey http://nec-se.webbar312.net/2015/09/11/nec-se-1st-year-anniversary-exclusive-refugees-are-the-new-oil-field-for-turkey/ 16 OCT 15 news article states:  “Turkish leaders accused Europeans on Friday of treating their country shabbily […]

The New Model of Power Relations and the Middle East Crisis. Most Americans are ignorant of the shifting alliances and power blocs that are influencing the course of events in the Middle […]