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Two Decades After US Invasion, War-scarred Iraqis Conflicted About Future Iraq remains devastated from the years of war, occupation and bloody sectarian turmoil By Mohammad Al-Kassim/The Media Line Twenty years ago, the United States invaded Iraq, launching a ferocious bombing campaign dubbed “shock and awe.” The US invaded Iraq on the premise that the oil-rich state possessed weapons of mass destruction, that it was later discovered never existed, throwing the […]

Russia Plans To Meet With Iran, Syria, Turkey in Bid to Broker Damascus-Ankara Deal If successful, a deal could increase Russia’s influence, undermine US power in the region, and be used by Erdogan as leverage in Turkey’s upcoming election By Debbie Mohnblatt/The Media Line Russia is coordinating a meeting for the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told the state RIA […]

Reservist Protest Against Israel’s Judicial Overhaul Is Warning, Analysts Say No-shows are not yet significant but could quickly become problematic if the Israel Defense Forces becomes politicized By Maya Margit/The Media Line Israel’s reservist protest against the government’s judicial overhaul is leading some defense analysts to sound the alarm and warn that the IDF could become politicized. Hundreds of reservists, up to 750 so far according to Israeli media, have […]

(Reuters) – The second largest school district in the United States canceled classes on Tuesday for what could be a three-day strike by 30,000 Los Angeles education support staff who are backed by a teachers’ union that refuses to cross their picket line. The strike in the Los Angeles Unified School District will disrupt education, meals, counseling and other social services for 420,000 students and their parents. It follows a […]

By Dietrich Knauth and Tom Hals (Reuters) -SVB Financial Group and the federal regulator that closed its Silicon Valley Bank unit indicated at a bankruptcy court hearing on Tuesday that a fight is looming over $2 billion of the former parent company’s cash that was seized along with the lender. SVB Financial, which filed for bankruptcy on Friday, had said in court papers the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Algeria’s relations with Morocco have reached the point of no return, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. Algeria broke off relations with Morocco in 2021 amid growing tensions over issues that included the dispute over the territory of Western Sahara. (Reporting by Omar Abdel-Razak in Cairo; writing by Angus McDowall; editing by Chris Reese) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Corrects number of students to 420,000 from 565,000, paragraph 2) (Reuters) -The second largest school district in the United States canceled classes on Tuesday for what could be a three-day strike by 30,000 Los Angeles education support staff who are backed by a teachers’ union that refuses to cross their picket line. The strike in the Los Angeles Unified School District will disrupt education, meals, counseling and other social services […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will hold general elections in May, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a television interview on Tuesday. The conservative government’s four-year term expires in July, and Mitsotakis was widely expected to call an election in early April. Opinion polls show his New Democracy party’s lead over the leftist opposition Syriza party shrinking following Greece’s worst rail disaster on Feb. 28. The accident, during which a passenger […]

(Reuters) – Classes were canceled for nearly half a million students across Los Angeles on Tuesday after education support staff launched a three-day strike backed by a teachers’ union that refused to cross their picket line. Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 99, which represents school bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and classroom assistants, formed picket lines and marched outside of school buildings across the Los Angeles Unified […]