German cows flown into Qatar arrive in Doha amid Saudi-led blockade
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BEIRUT AFP Photo German cattle has been flown into Qatar to boost milk supplies amid a Saudi Arabian-led blockade of the Middle Eastern country, Qatari […]
Top US diplomat ends Gulf crisis talks with no word of result
By Reuters – Jul 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (right) and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sign a memorandum of understanding in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended […]
Mosul’s once-thriving Old City now a grey wasteland
By AFP – Jul 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi women, who just fled their home, rest in the desert as they wait to be transported while Iraqi forces […]
EU is wasting Turkey’s time, Erdoğan says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walks past the flags of the European Union (L) and Germany as he arrives for the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, […]
Amazing Mechanical Devices from Muslim Civilisation
by: Cem Nizamoglu Fully automated environmentally friendly water raising devices, pumps, windmills and more! Discover some of the most facinating devices from the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation that brought creative innovative ideas helping to drive agriculture and industries from southern Spain to China Note: Composed by Cem Nizamoglu and […]
Marginalising UN system
Jul 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The United Nations was established more than 70 years ago. Any objective assessment of its function would likely yield a poor outcome. The UN Charter was signed on June 26, 1945. The purpose of the organisation was defined in Article 1. It […]
Syrian Observatory says it has ‘confirmed information’ that Daesh chief is dead
By Reuters – Jul 11,2017 – J This file photo combination of two handout pictures released by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (left) and by Iraqi ministry of interior allegedly shows photographs taken at an unknown location of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader of […]
Qatar signs counterterror deal as US looks to defuse Gulf row
By AFP – Jul 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speak during a press conference in Doha on Tuesday (AFP photo) DOHA — Qatar and the United States signed a deal Tuesday on combatting […]
Yemen cholera cases pass 300,000 as outbreak spirals – ICRC
10 July 2017 From the sectionMiddle East Media captionInside the Yemeni hospital battling the world’s worst cholera outbreak A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen is thought to have infected 300,000 people in the past 10 weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. The situation has continued to “spiral […]
Technology in sub-Saharan Cultures
by: Khaleel Shaikh Genetic and paleontological findings have concluded that Africa is the birthplace of the entire human race. Africa is often thought of as a continent rich in natural beauty and culture. However, little is known or understood about the technology and innovation which was present throughout its history […]
U.S., UK, Kuwait urge swift negotiated solution to Qatar crisis
Reuters International JULY 11, 2017 Buildings are seen on a coast line in Doha, Qatar, June 15, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon (reuters_tickers) DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States, United Kingdom and Kuwait urged all parties to a Gulf Arab diplomatic row over Qatar to resolve their dispute as quickly […]
Qatar seeks ‘siege’ compensation for firms
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Qatar’s Attorney General Ali Bin Fetais Al Marri speaks after the launch of the Compensation Claims Committee during a press conference in Doha, on Sunday (AFP photo) DOHA — Qatar on Sunday announced it was establishing a committee to pursue compensation […]
Poll: Negative Campaign Against Arabs And Muslims Has Consequences
Source: Huffington Post BY James Zogby, ContributorPresident, Arab American Institute; Author, “Arab Voices” While, as president, Donald Trump has worked to cultivate a relationship with Arab leaders, the antipathy towards […]
The mouse that roared: How Saudi Arabia underestimated Qatar
Catherine Shakdam is a political analyst, writer and commentator for the Middle East with a special focus on radical movements and Yemen. A regular pundit on RT and other networks her work has appeared in major publications: MintPress, the Foreign Policy Journal, Mehr News and many others.Director of Programs […]
Mosul becomes ‘graveyard’ for foreign extremists
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi federal police pose for a picture with an upside down Daesh group flag in the Old City […]
Gloomy scenario
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the internationally famed physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University, expressed gloom and doom about the future of planet Earth and the people living on it. In a rare television interview conducted with him […]
G20 communique agreed apart from climate issue: EU officials
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
Post-deadline Gulf crisis
KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT@KilicKanat The Trump administration seems to be taking some initiatives now that the deadline has passed in the Gulf crisis Articles COLUMNSThe future of Qatar crisis remains vague COLUMNSAre Gulf states on the same side as the US in the Qatar rift? COLUMNSUrgent need for active […]
Here in Iraq, Isis is being defeated – but with US policy in disarray, it doesn’t feel any safer
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]
‘Jordan has key interest in restoring security in Syria’
Gov’t downplays accusations of hampering opposition’s participation in Astana talks By Mohammad Ghazal – Jul 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian girl carries a large jug of water on her back while on her way home, in the Kallaseh district of the northern city of Aleppo, on Wednesday (AFP […]