By Mohammad Ghazal – Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The summit His Majesty King Abdullah held with US President Barack Obama this week “testifies to the credibility and balanced positions of Jordan” on regional crises and issues of global nature. In particular, analysts referred in phone interviews […]
Earlier this month, while talking at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, President Obama called on television networks to put more Muslims on screen. Here’s an excerpt of his speech (you can […]
Feb 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In the battle of wills between Israel and the international community there comes a time and a place where this will is tested. The Israeli occupation and colonisation of Palestine is a creeping endeavour largely built on the attempt to wear out […]
By AFP – Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian teacher leads a class of Palestinian bedouin children from the Abu Anwar community near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim (background), in the West Bank city of Al Azariya, east of Jerusalem, on Wednesday (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s […]
•KSA envoy urges Beirut to retain its ‘Arabness’ Lebanese children in battle gear ride a vehicle during the funeral of a Hezbollah militant in south Lebanon in this January 20, 2015 photo. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned their citizens from travel to Lebanon in view of the hostile […]
Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF It has been some time since US Secretary of State John Kerry talked about the two-state solution, illegal Israeli settlements and “tensions” — that should read daily Israeli provocations — at Al Aqsa Mosque compound. This week he met with His […]
Feb 23,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The government of Morocco has declined hosting the annual Arab summit due at the end of March in Rabat. The situation in the Arab world and the challenges facing the Arab nation were cited by a Moroccan foreign ministry official as causes of […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Edward Kallon (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) AMMAN — Jordan has been very helpful in facilitating delivery of humanitarian aid to the south of Syria, a UN official has said, as the conflict in the area across the northern border has intensified […]
Field Notes FEBRUARY 19, 2016 | STRATFOR.COM By Jasmin Mahmoud There are no perfect measures of the toll the Gaza blockade is taking on the 1.9 million residents locked inside, but those that give a glimpse tend to be pretty macabre. The number of suicide attempts handled by Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, […]
SAAD AL-DOSARI Published — Tuesday 23 February 2016 As the world governments and security agencies are stepping up their efforts to fight online terrorism, terrorist groups are actively changing and upgrading their tactics. Social media platforms have become their open playgrounds they use to recruit fighters, to communicate between cells, […]
By AFP – Feb 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of Iraqi security forces are deployed at the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Iraqi tribesmen battled Daesh militants inside their Fallujah stronghold for a second day Saturday, a significant challenge to long-standing extremist control […]
By Omar Obeidat – Feb 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour speaks at a ceremony in Amman on Monday to announce the preliminary findings of the 2015 population census (Petra photo) AMMAN — Jordan’s population increased by nearly 87 per cent over a decade, with the number […]
Feb 22,2016 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura made a surprise visit to Damascus last week for urgent talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem, in a bid to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by the Syrian army. Damascus agreed, or […]
Villages that remained loyal to the Syrian regime have paid a steep price Robert Fisk Nubl, Northern Syria @indyvoices 55 comments This is the untold story of the three-and-a-half-year siege of two small Shia Muslim villages in northern Syria. Although their recapture by the Syrian army – and by Iranian Revolutionary Guards […]
Can Syria be put back together again? Soon life after Isis will have to be contemplated here Robert Fisk @indyvoices It is about 18 months since Isis took control of Raqqa, imposing its strict rules on citizens. Now the group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered is fighting back against its […]
HEBRON, February 22, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli armed forces Monday delivered a demolition notice to three Palestinian families in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Coordinator of the national committee against the wall and settlement activities Rateb Jabour told WAFA Israeli soldiers notified Palestinians of notices to demolish three residential structures, […]
© Photo: Screenshot MIDDLE EAST 12:50 22.02.2016 These young boys are part of the twisted strategy of Daesh terrorists who have sent dozens of kid recruits to their death and boast about this on social networks, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel wrote on Saturday citing a new study on the […]
© REUTERS/ SANA MIDDLE EAST 12:40 22.02.2016 More than 80 nations, particularly Turkey and Saudi Arabia, have provided financial, logistical and material assistance to terrorist groups, who are fighting in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. The Syrian leader described foreign sponsorship as “active” and “unlimited.” Some […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Feb 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of their meeting in Aqaba, on Sunday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — The US has finalised a law that will allow the administration to increase military […]
Feb 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The king of Morocco decided not to host the forthcoming Arab summit that was due to be convened in his country. His foreign minister explained that the events in the Arab world require a more serious agenda and tangible results to match […]