By AFP – Nov 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian demonstrators react to tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest against Jewish settlements in Jordan Valley near the West Bank city of Jericho on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Muslims in Israel and the […]
Jordanian ‘ambassador of reading’ honoured for winning second place in regional competition By Sawsan Tabazah – Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ruaa Hammo speaks during a panel discussion on reading in Amman on Wednesday (Petra photo) AMMAN — Instilling the love of critical reading among children at a […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Army medics and volunteers attend to a patient suffering from injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces 2nd Division open air field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood of Mosul onThursday (AFP photo) MOSUL — Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had already achieved its highest state of confusion, violence and uncertainty in its modern history. The factors that […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]
Nov 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab A totally different fate awaits two separate sets of homes built without licence in occupied Palestinian territories. Palestinians, especially in East Jerusalem where a city planning zone has not been approved in 49 years, face demolitions every time they dare build a dwelling for […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 16 November 2016 A general view of the Israeli outpost, a wildcat Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land, of Mitzpe Dani in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. (AFP) JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned a bill by the Israeli […]
Stateless children could miss out on education, healthcare By Reuters – Nov 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iman Salman Mahmoud, 20, who fled the violence from Daesh militants, kisses her baby Aisha Qais Mahmoud, who was born under Daesh rule and has no identity documents recognised by Iraqi authorities, in […]
RAMZY BAROUD | Published — Tuesday 15 November 2016 Ramzy Baroud As I was growing up, I was always reassured by the sound of the “Muadhin” making the call for prayer in our refugee camp’s main mosque in Gaza. For the refugees in my camp, the dawn prayer meant that […]
Nov 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL According to the recently published Fragile States Index, on which the Fund for Peace ranks 178 nations based on their levels of stability and the pressures they face, Jordan ranks 77th, four places lower than last year. This drop is attributed in no small […]
By JT – Nov 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty the late King Hussein with His Majesty King Abdullah (then Prince Abdullah) during a military ceremony (Petra file photo) AMMAN — Jordan today marks the 81st anniversary of the birth of His Majesty the late King Hussein. On the […]
It is easy to say that the Arabs are appalled that an Islamophobe has won the White House. But did they think Obama or any of his predecessors – Democrat or Republican – had any special concern for Islam? Of course not Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump has been talking […]
Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen At long last the campaign to drive Daesh from Raqqa, the cult’s self-proclaimed capital, has begun. Daesh seized this north Syrian city from Al Qaeda’s Jabhat Al Nusra and groups claiming affiliation with the Free Syrian Army in January 2014. Until insurgents captured […]
Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab At about 2:40am Wednesday, Donald J. Trump, the US president elect, spoke to his supporters, the American people and the world. He praised Hillary Clinton, spoke about how he will make America great and then addressed the world. “I want to tell the […]
Some parts welcome victory with calls for Trump to take action, others express alarm By AFP – Nov 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi man follows the US presidential elections on television at his home in Baghdad on Tuesday (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Uncertainty spread across the Middle East […]
What does Trump actually do when these lands present a “threat” to the West? Dust off his anti-Muslim hatreds? Call up his mate Vladimir? Ask for an atlas? Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices Of course, it will be no change in the Middle East. The one thing which always united […]
By Reuters – Nov 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis displaced by fighting in Mosul carries mattresses at a camp for internally displaced people in Hassan Sham, Iraq, on Tuesday (AP photo) SHAHREZAD, Iraq — Seif Mohammed, his nose cut and swollen, winced and held his back. He had […]
Halt reflects deepening rift between the two countries By Reuters – Nov 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Egyptians gather to buy subsidised sugar and oil from a government truck, after goods shortage in retail stores across the country and after the central bank floated the pound currency, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, […]
Image captionCommanders from the rebel forces warned civilians to leave militant-occupied areasA US-backed Kurdish and Arab force says it has begun an operation to capture Raqqa, so-called Islamic State’s “capital” in Syria. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) will be aided by US-led coalition air strikes. They have warned civilians to […]
Nov 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL As the battle for Mosul rages on, now in its third week, progress is being made on the battlefield but, as expected, at a slow pace. Daesh, which has been controlling this second largest city in Iraq since 2014, is resorting to all […]