Arab countries’ decisions led by Saudi Arabia are founded on ‘baseless’ allegations, Qatar foreign ministry says. The dispute between Qatar and the Gulf’s Arab countries escalated after a recent hack of Qatar’s state-run news agency [AFP/File] FAST FACTS Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and the Maldives cut ties with Qatar […]
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani inherited power from his father in 2013. Sheikh Tamim had been named heir apparent in 2003, when his elder brother stepped aside [Mohammad Hamed/Reuters] […]
Zaid Jilani, Ryan Grim June 3 2017, THE EMAIL ACCOUNT of one of Washington’s most connected and influential foreign operatives has been hacked. A small tranche of those emails was […]
John Bacon USA Today Why Saudi Arabia is mad at Qatar and why we care 8 Hours Ago | 01:00 The rift between Qatar and other Arab nations intensified Monday whenSaudi […]
Tariq Ramadan Reducing these acts of violence to an ideological battle between Islam and the west stokes the politics of division and ignores the root causes of terrorism Tariq […]
The Prime Minister is going to have her ‘embarrassing conversations’ with Britain’s Muslims, who have no power to switch off the evil ideology which Wahhabism represents. She does have that power – but she won’t use it Robert Fisk @indyvoices Was that really the best Theresa May could do? It was the same old tosh about “values” and […]
YUSUF SELMAN İNANÇ@yusufsinanc ISTANBUL Iraqi civilians walk through the rubble of western Mosul, May 15. In a recent press release, CENTCOM said 484 civilians have died in anti-Daesh coalition airstrikes […]
By Reuters – Jun 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A street vendor waits for customers during the holy month of Ramadan in the rebel-held Tafas town, in Deraa Governorate, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) GENEVA — Syria is unlikely to see a major “Marshall Plan” for reconstruction as peace […]
More than 600,000 settlers live among 2.9m Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem By AFP – Jun 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians walk through an Israeli checkpoint between […]
Westerners who rail against Israel for the failure to end the conflict are being too easy on their own governments Donald Macintyre @indyvoices 116 comments Fifty years ago this Monday, on the first day of the Six Day War, Shlomo Gazit, head of the Israeli military intelligence’s assessment department, visited […]
In April, I entered Deir Hafer. Isis had just fled for their lives, leaving their infamous black flags, crucifixion posts, arms factories and black-painted Islamic courtrooms still intact. And yet Washington still maintains that the Syrians don’t fight Isis Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices A member of the Syrian pro-government forces carries an Isis […]
May 03, 2017 This write-up intends to make people of the region aware of the beauty and the richness of their culture, when it comes to architecture and the living […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo A total of 169,010 Syrian children attend Turkish public schools under the Temporary Protection Regulation, while 294,112 Syrian students go to special temporary schooling centers, Turkey’s Minister of National Education Ismet Yılmaz said Wednesday. “While a curriculum was being prepared for these students to study […]
ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL During the month of Ramadan, when people fast for more than 12 hours, iftar meals are crucial for maintaining a sufficient, balanced diet especially in places where the summer season is in full swing Iftar, the fast-breaking meal, must be prepared in accordance with a sufficient and […]
The fight against Islamic State in western Mosul is chaotic and brutal, with up to 200,000 civilians still trapped in the IS-held Old Town. DER SPIEGEL visited the front in Iraq to see how the battle is progressing. By Christoph Reuter Jacob Russel A girl walks through the destroyed streets […]
Reuters International MAY 31, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File […]
By AFP – May 31,2017 -JORDAN TIMES A photo taken from East Jerusalem on Wednesday shows a view of Israel’s separation barrier dividing occupied Jerusalem from the West Bank city of Abu Dis, and in the distance the Jordanian capital, Amman (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Fifty years […]
By Simon Bradley MAY 31, 2017 – Tzipi Livni is a prominent Israeli politician. She has held various government roles including former foreign minister (2006-2009), acting prime minister and justice minister (Keystone) The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed that it is examining a criminal […]
Time and again Islam’s teachings uphold religious and personal freedoms. If dictators in the Middle East or radical Muslim preachers oppose the Prophet Mohammed in their words and actions, then they’re solely to blame Atif Rashid @tif_49 Sunday 17 July 2016 996 comments A recent poll published by the BBC […]
There are no violent, extremist or provocative verses in the Quran, only distorted, misquoted and purposefully misinterpreted ones Atif Rashid @tif_49 85 comments The anti-Islam bandwagon has resurfaced in the wake of theManchester attack, led by extremist commentators and a whole host of Islamophobes on social media. They reaffirm false […]