US-backed parties have infiltrated Lebanon’s protests, pushing the country toward war amid economic collapse
By joining the roadblocks around Beirut, protesters allowed themselves to be used by US-allied parties playing a dangerous...
Rania Khalek
Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
While Lebanon’s protests remain focused on the economy and widespread corruption, Washington is increasingly determined to exploit the...
‘We don’t want to lose anymore”: Inside the complex peace process that helped Syrians find an end to the fighting
In war torn areas across Syria, a series of reconciliation deals overseen by the secret fixer of Damascus, Khaled...
Meet the mystery fixer who negotiated Syria out of seven years of war
How a nearly unknown businessman named Khaled al-Ahmad became Damascus’ secret liaison to the West and quietly dealt...
Genocide in Iraq: When local Sunni became ISIS and slaughtered their Yazidi neighbors
When ISIS came to butcher the Yazidis of Iraq, they simply went next door. By Rania Khalek /...
How ISIS wives helped their husbands rape Yazidi sex slaves
In Iraq, captured Yazidi women were forced to work as domestic servants for ISIS families — and were...
In the field with Yazidi fighters, chilling tales of genocide by ISIS – and more conflict to come
Yazidi fighters are joining the Iraqi-run Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in droves to fight ISIS, and see a...
How a Free Syrian Army unit uncovered the rebels’ Israeli connection and switched sides
Before the Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group the Golan Brigade was targeted for destruction by Israel and...
As US regime-change operation in Syria fails, war-weary residents of Damascus struggle to survive
A report from inside Syria’s capital Damascus, battered by Western sanctions and filled with the internally displaced. By...
Ignored by Western media, Syrians describe the nightmare the armed opposition brought them
Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change. By Rania...
British gov-funded outlet offered journalist $17,000 a month to make propaganda for Syrian rebels
Emails reveal that the Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) media office, a popular source for the mainstream Western press,...