Feb 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It is too early to rejoice over the “breakthrough” represented by the “cessation of hostilities” in Syria, agreed upon at the end of the meeting of the 17-member International Syria Support Group in Munich, which both US Secretary of State John Kerry and his […]
By JT – Feb 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Royal Court on Monday denounced attempts by some media outlets and spokespersons of FIFA presidency candidates to promote false information about HRH Prince Ali’s campaign. In a statement, the Royal Court said rumours that Prince Ali’s campaign manager […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Construction started on 1,800 units for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last year, 265 of them in wildcat outposts, settlements watchdog Peace Now said Sunday in its annual report. The overall number of starts was down […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish forces’ armoured vehicles patrol at the southeastern town of Nusaybin, Turkey, near the border with Syria, where Turkish security forces are battling militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), on Sunday, a day after Turkish media reports said a […]
Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL In his Friday speech to the 52nd Munich Security Conference, His Majesty King Abdullah outlined his views on the manner in which terrorism can be fought, which should be holistic and global. “Failed states, conflict zones and sectarian divisions are fertile grounds for terrorism,” […]
01/19/2016 Kabir Helminski; Sufi shaikh and author A kind Rabbi, interested in building bridges between Islam and Judaism, recently wrote to me and suggested that I would be destroying my credibility by “trying to whitewash Islam.” I thanked him for taking the time to write and for offering his opinion. […]
By Juan Cole | Aug. 30, 2015 | 27 Retweet905Share1605Google +114129 By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank. And he’d be complaining that fully 1 in 6 of these undocumented […]
National News Related Articles Two 15-year-old Palestinians killed by IOF near Jenin, West Bank PNN/ Bethlehem/ Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday afternoon have shot a third Palestinian east of Bethlehem, following two children who were killed near Jenin, northern West Bank. Na’im Safi (17) from Al-Obeidiya town north of […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman receives Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter and his delegation at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Sunday. (SPA) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 14 February 2016 RIYADH: Switzerland has agreed to handle Saudi Arabia’s consular affairs in Iran, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir […]
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Aleppo today is frightening almost beyond description and comprehension. One of the world’s ancient centres of civilisation is bombed and sieged, its inhabitants tortured and starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees do not know if they will […]
Voices I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power Robert Fisk @indyvoices 5 comments An Afghan militia man stands guard in the Achin district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. AP […]
Rafael Nash | Friday, February 12, 2016 Five years of conflict have killed more than a quarter-million people, created Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II and allowed the Islamic State to carve out its own territory across parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq. They will continue their […]
OTHMAN MOHAMMAD Published — Friday 12 February 2016 It is a hallmark of depressed people that they give up on hope. Life for these people can seem void of color, so mundane that it is not worth living any more. Any energy spent on the face of earth seems such […]
SHEIKH SALMAN AL-OADAH Published — Friday 12 February 2016 A man reviled Abu Bakr in the presence of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Prophet remained seated. He looked pleased and smiled. He insulted Abu Bakr twice, but Abu Bakr controlled himself and remained silent. He insulted him for […]
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman SPA Published — Friday 12 February 2016 Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, on Thursday led the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia taking part in the meeting of the international coalition […]
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh These days, focus on the Middle East, particularly the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, has virtually disappeared. The position of the Palestinians, led by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, hardly makes it into the US media. Americans are nowadays more involved in […]
By Reuters – Feb 11,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting on the situation in banking in the Gorki residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday (AP photo) MUNICH — Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the spectre of a permanent or a world war if […]
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Aleppo today is frightening almost beyond description and comprehension. One of the world’s ancient centres of civilisation is bombed and sieged, its inhabitants tortured and starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees do not know if they will […]
By Reuters – Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past the remains of a house destroyed during the 2014 Israeli aggression as she returns to her home on a winter day in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday (Reuters photo) GENEVA — The UN human […]
The US has backed anti-government rebels and more than a dozen countries are involved in the civil war Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden 29 comments Bashar al-Assad has resisted international calls to step down EPA Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake the whole of Syria by force, even as diplomats continue increasingly […]