King, Duda talk military, economic cooperation, prospects of expansion By JT – Nov 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda in Amman on Sunday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — Stability and valuing […]
One Syrian lieutenant described to me how he directed his artillery fire onto an Israeli jeep in the Jabhat al-Nusra occupied town of Al-Hamidiya inside Syria and destroyed it. The jeep might have been a gift or borrowed from Israel Robert Fisk Baath City, below the Syrian Golan Heights @indyvoices Friday […]
OIC secretary-general Iyad Madani resigns following Egypt row Al AhramThe secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Bin Amin Madani has resigned from his post for health reasons, a statement on the OIC’s official website read on Monday. The resignation of the OIC secretary general comes only few […]
SINEM CENGIZ | Published — Saturday 5 November 2016 Sinem Cengiz Last month, while referring to Turkey’s concerns regarding the situation in Iraq to Crimea, Syria to Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey is not just Turkey… it is also responsible to the hundreds of millions of our […]
By JT – Nov 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — At least two US flight instructors were killed in a shooting at the gate of the King Faisal Airbase in Jafer, Maan, on Friday while they were in a car about to enter the premises, the Jordan News Agency, […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira We arrived so soon […]
Family describes civilains being shot by militia as they seek to escape medical shortages, starvation, and the barrage of air strikes from overhead Robert Fisk Aleppo @indyvoices Kahled Kadoura, his wife Samira and 8-year old son Almuatazbilah in Aleppo shortly after they fled the east of the city Nelofer Pazira Khaled […]
Reuters International OCT 31, 2016 – An armoured vehicle of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) drives south of Mosul, Iraq October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Babak Dehghanpisheh AIN NASIR, Iraq (Reuters) – Gun trucks and humvees streamed north on a highway heading to Mosul on Sunday flying the […]
The battle for the city has opened up, with fire arriving not only from the east but from south-west – where the al-Nusra Front and some of its Islamist allies still hold territory. But this isn’t quite the storm of steel the world’s media would have you believe Robert Fisk Aleppo […]
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium The Qur’an commissioned by Mongol ruler Uljaytu in Baghdad in the early 1300s and brought back to Istanbul by Suleiman the Magnificent. Photograph: Neil […]
By JT – Oct 24,2016 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday issued directives to host the Arab League’s 28th session after Yemen apologised for not being able to host the summit. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh informed Arab League Secretary General Ahmed […]
Oct 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Citizens in several Arab Gulf states appear to have a higher appreciation for the quality of life available to them in their countries than citizens in most European countries. This was one of the key findings of a Zogby Research Services (ZRS) […]
By JT – Oct 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah attends a ceremony where he honoured Muslim scholars participating in Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought conference in Amman on Monday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday honoured […]
By AFP – Oct 24,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Iraqi families, who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against Daesh militants to retake the city of Mosul, are seen gathering in an area near Qayyarah on Monday (AFP photo) QARAQOSH, Iraq — Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul faced […]
From the Facebook Page of Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer: Dear friends, I am writing this text full of anger and shame. Almost every day it’s raining bombs on Mosul. 15.000 civilians were already killed in the region by air raids of the U.S. coalition. The world remains silent. The United […]
By AP – Oct 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Rebel fighters ride a military vehicle on the outskirts of the Syria Democratic Forces-controlled Tall Rifaat town, northern Aleppo province, Syria, on Saturday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — A leading northern Syrian rebel coalition warned civilians in Aleppo to stay away from […]
By Hana Namrouqa – Oct 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES The water in Qastal was found 1,200m underground, with salinity levels of 3,000mg and diverse unique therapeutic minerals (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) QASTAL — Just 30km south of Amman, the hottest mineral water well in Jordan has been discovered, […]
Increasing evidence suggests Kingdom is not merely bombing civilians in neighbouring country, but systematically targeting infrastructure survivors will need to avoid starvation when the war is over Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike on a site near Sana’a AP The Yemen war uniquely combines tragedy, hypocrisy and […]
By Rudaw Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right) meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Baghdad on Saturday. Photo from AP video. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has declined Turkey’s offer of assistance in the offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS rule. “I know that the Turks want […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 A displaced woman, who fled from Daesh terrorists in Mosul, holding her baby at Deepaka camp in the northwest of Irbil, during an operation against Daesh in Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2016. Daesh rose to prominence because of a series of mistakes committed in the name of political […]