By Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill and Moohialdin Fuad Yemen is in the grip of an unprecedented cholera epidemic that is killing one person nearly every hour. The Saudi-led coalition has closed the country’s main airport and prevented many reporters and human rights workers from entering Yemen. But the evidence […]
Reuters International JUN 10, 2017 – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa in Istanbul, Turkey June 10, 2017. […]
Trump backs Doha’s rivals’ accusation of terrorism financing By Reuters – Jun 11,2017 – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani meets with US President Donald Trump in […]
Jun 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The origins of the tension between Qatar and other GCC countries go back several years, to the Arab Spring. During this time, the GCC countries felt that Qatar was playing an active role in feeding discontent, and the dispute was resolved with […]
Since I witnessed their beginnings half a century ago, the settlements have only got worse. The size and scale is something I can’t get over Ruth Kedar 21 comments Labourers […]
2017-06-11 US AND THEM US President Donald Trump poses with Muslim leaders after the US-Gulf Summit at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 21 PHOTO: /Getty Images Related Links Erdogan vows to stand by ‘Qatari brothers’ amid crisis Qatar FM rejects intervention in […]
My personal ‘insider information’ told me that the last ‘regime change’ in Qatar was not quite ‘a friendly deal between father and son’ as it appeared. The present Emir of […]
Trump demands Doha stop funding extremist groups By AFP – Jun 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Customers are seen shopping at Al Meera market in the Qatari capital Doha on […]
Opinion | 9 June 2017 OPINION It appears that the blockade against the world’s wealthiest nation has been a carefully calculated campaign by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the US, writes Shannon […]
June 9, 2017 Saudi Gazette report RAMADAN is a month of immense blessings and the community iftars at mosques and other public places is one of these blessings. For […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Published June 8, 2017 Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani gives a press conference in Doha on May 25, 2017. (AFP Photo) Qatar’s foreign minister […]
Jun 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh Fifty years ago, on June 5, I was in 6th grade when the Israelis attacked and occupied my village Yalu, forced its people to flee and levelled it to the ground, along with the two other neighbouring Latrun villages: Umwas and […]
By AFP – Jun 09,2017 – A rainbow is seen over the Israeli settler outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank on January 31 (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED […]
Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created by Donald Trump’s preposterous attendance at the Saudi summit two weeks […]
By Tyler Durden Global Research, June 07, 2017 Zero Hedge 6 June 2017 According to the official narrative, the reason for the latest Gulf crisis in which a coalition of Saudi-led states cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, is because – to everyone’s “stunned amazement” – Qatar was […]
Reuters International JUN 7, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Iraq’s Kurdistan region’s President Massoud Barzani gestures during a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (not pictured) in Erbil, Iraq […]
Reuters International JUN 7, 2017 A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. Omid Vahabzadeh/TIMA via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum in Tehran on […]
Reuters International JUN 6, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event announcing the Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative in the East Room of the White House […]
Fourteen years on from Britain’s decision to invade Iraq, the negative connotations of the Arabic language have become worse. It’s upsetting, because contrary to its associations of barbarism, it is actually a deliciously camp language full of hyperbole and proverb Amrou Al-Kadhi @glamrou When Britain invaded Iraq in 2003, I […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conducted a phone diplomacy over the recent rift between Arab states and Qatar on Monday as the presidential spokesman said Turkey is ready […]