Occidentalogy

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States counterpart Barack Obama have engaged in a war of words the deployment of the NATO military alliance anti-missile shield in Europe In reaction to the deployment of a NATO missile defense site in Romania on Thursday, President Putin said Russia is being …

American airstrikes in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika killed at least 17 civilians, local officials and elders said on Thursday, differing from official American and Afghan claims that only militants had been killed. 

The U.S. State Department said on Monday it had determined that Myanmar is persecuting its Rohingya Muslims, but the government’s treatment of the religious minority group does not constitute genocide. “While it’s without question that they continue to face persecution, we did not determine that it was on the level …

Arab region now is the scene of bloody conflicts, which have lasted relatively for a long time. The conflicts deepened by external interventions which reached its climax in 2003, when the USA embarked on the occupation of Iraq under pretexts, which were later debunked, but it was too late. The …

A third of the mosques in the Netherlands have experienced at least one incident of vandalism, threatening letters, attempted arson, the placement of a pig’s head, or other aggressive actions in the past 10 years, according to research by Ineke van der Valk, an author and researcher at the University …

A young American man accused of fighting for ISIS said it was a “bad decision” to go to Iraq and that he was trying to get home when he was captured by Kurdish forces earlier this week. Speaking to the Kurdish news outlet K24, the man identified by Kurdish officials …

The U.S. Army will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a military emergency, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News.

Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared Thursday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Pig head thrown outside Muslim school gate in Portsmouth, UK / PhotoStaff and students at the Madani Academy in Portsmouth, England suffered the fear and indignity of discovering a pig’s head attached to the school gates. The pig’s head had a swastika; it mirrors an incident in December 2013 when …

An American high-school Catholic student, Zion Lourdes Perez, wore a hijab on her way back home in Seattle, United States, as part of a “modesty week” programme at school, exposing her to the everyday challenges faced by Muslim women. Feeling targeted, she tore off the hijab half way through her …