You will learn a lot about Syria’s tragedy driving between Damascus and the ancient city – and you must drive fast Robert Fisk Aleppo @indyvoices A government soldier relaxes after the recapture of Salma from IS AFP/Getty You can drive these days from Damascus to Aleppo but the road is […]
FIGHTING TERRORISM FEB 11, 2016 – 15:52 The young man’s identity has not been made public. (Keystone) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has upheld the decision of the Swiss Attorney General’s Office to confiscate the Swiss passport and identifying documents of an alleged Swiss-Lebanese jihadist. He was arrested at Zurich […]
VITAL ASSISTANCE: A Syrian refugee receives medications from a pharmacy run by the Saudi National Campaign to Help Syrian Refugees, in Jordan. (SPA) RASHID HASSAN Published — Thursday 18 February 2016 RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, commended the Kingdom […]
In this subtle war, men of the Free Syrian Army are being allowed to rejoin the ranks of the government army they deserted on their return to the shattered neighbourhood of al-Qadam Robert Fisk Damascus @indyvoices Tuesday 16 February 2016 The aftermath of Russian bombing in Aleppo Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu/Getty Images “That is a […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Craig Considine; Sociologist, Speaker, Writer Last week I gave a presentation in front of a group of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Rice University in […]
Qatar Foundation for Education chairperson calls for strong measures to preserve language Image Credit: QNA Shaikha Moza addressing the forum. Published: 09:34 January 21, 2016 By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: Shaikha Moza Bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), has lamented the inability of the Arabs […]
SAEED AL-KHOTANI Published — Wednesday 17 February 2016 ARABNEWS.COM RIYADH: The annual Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Competition for the Memorization of the Holy Qur’an and the […]
By Reuters – Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES People and Civil Defence members carry a dead body removed from a destroyed Medecins Sans Frontieres-supported hospital hit by missiles in Maarat Numan, Syria, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) ISTANBUL/ANKARA — Turkey is asking allies including the United States to take part […]
Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Amidst the deep schisms, military escalation and political confusion in Syria today, it is difficult to believe that a political breakthrough will succeed in ending the war, put the country on the road to democracy, help it maintain its geographic integrity, […]
Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES The Israeli “right’, a scary coalition of right-wing nationalists, ultranationalists and religious zealots, deserves all the bad press it has garnered since its formation last May. But none of this should come as a shock, as the right in Israel has never been anything but […]
Places to Visit:Makkah Madina Jeddah Taif Abwa Badr Uhud Arafat Mina Makkah al-Mukarramah 1 Masjid al-Haraam The Holy Ka’aba. The House of Allah and the birth place of Imam Ali b. Abi Taalib [a] Hajar al-Aswad (The Black Stone) Maqam Ibrahim Hijr Ismail. This was the location of the house […]
Ramy al-Asheq, editor-in-chief of Abwab. Photo: DPA Published: 15 Feb 2016 Abwab (Doors), Germany’s first newspaper for refugees, gives refugees an Arabic-language take on the refugee debate, as well as covering news from the Arab world in Germa Ramy al-Asheq’s laptop isn’t playing ball. He wants to show a cartoon […]
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 […]