Jeddah: Nadim Al-Hamid ARABNEWS.COM Published — Wednesday 25 June 2014 Scores of Jeddah residents are stocking up on dates ahead of Ramadan in anticipation of priceo rise during the busy season. Date shops and retailers in Jeddah are witnessing unprecedented demand for dates in the days leading up to the […]
Tarek Fatah As Iraq dies, Kurdistan is born 8 By Tarek Fatah ,Toronto Sun First posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 05:49 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 06:09 PM EDT Article Iraq is imploding in a fiery mess as it nears its expiry date, and from its […]
The number of Muslims performing the Umrah pilgrimage is expected to increase with the advent of Ramadan. The latest statistics reveal that around 5.3 million pilgrims have entered the Kingdom […]
If history and petropolitics teach us anything, it’s that the collapse of Iraq shouldn’t come as surprise You only need to go back ten years to see how this was a crisis waiting to happen BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT So while Obama’s Spartan 300 deploy to Iraq’s Thermopylae, it’s […]
If history and petropolitics teach us anything, it’s that the collapse of Iraq shouldn’t come as surprise You only need to go back ten years to see how this was a crisis waiting to happen BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT So while Obama’s Spartan 300 deploy to Iraq’s Thermopylae, it’s […]
Masoud Ali, a tall, friendly man with a beard and green eyes, was a taxi driver in Mosul until a few days ago. He likes the desert, and he loves […]
AMMAN — Presidents of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) have warned of the “deteriorating situation” in Iraq, calling for immediate international measures to support the Iraqi people. “The […]
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 20 June 2014 What is the world coming to? It is as if the red tide of blood has engulfed the whole world. It is killings, bloodshed and chaos everywhere. And Muslims appear to be in the thick of action with what passes […]
The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which represents more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, affirmed Thursday a commitment to unity in combatting “sectarian” policies. OIC members will stand “united in combatting sectarian, confessional, and exclusion policies that have led to sedition in some countries and threatened their security and stability,” […]
The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which represents more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, affirmed Thursday a commitment to unity in combatting “sectarian” policies. OIC members will stand “united in combatting sectarian, confessional, and exclusion policies that have led to sedition in some countries and threatened their security and stability,” […]
Now we will have the bizarre spectacle of the US joining Iran in strengthening the Al Maliki regime against the ISIS threat, while trying to bring down Iran’s Syrian ally, President Bashar Al Assad, a goal Washington shares with ISIS Razi Azmi June 19, 2014 The pharaoh is having the […]
Now we will have the bizarre spectacle of the US joining Iran in strengthening the Al Maliki regime against the ISIS threat, while trying to bring down Iran’s Syrian ally, President Bashar Al Assad, a goal Washington shares with ISIS Razi Azmi June 19, 2014 The pharaoh is having the […]
June 19, 2014 12:11 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Let’s look at the reality on the ground in the Middle East: Iraq and Syria are effectively partitioned along sectarian lines; Lebanon and Yemen are close to fracturing; Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia survive intact, but as […]
by Sami Ramadani, THE GUARDIAN Tony Blair has been widely derided for his attempted justification of the 2003 Iraq invasion, and his claim last weekend that he’s blameless over the current turmoil. Unfortunately, though, many of his critics have also bought into a central plank of his argument: that Iraqi […]
One of the facts exposed by recent events in Iraq is that the Gulf states have no strategy for addressing the troubles pulsing dangerously through that country beyond “wait and see”. These Arab countries are suddenly facing unprecedented challenges in Iraq: insurgents have eradicated the border with Syria, reached the […]
MOHAMMED FAHAD AL-HARTHI Published — Wednesday 18 June 2014 ARABNEWS.COM At the annual Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona this week, I was one of many delegates taken by surprise by the head of the Catalonian government welcoming us to the future state of Catalonia. He then went on to […]
June 18, 2014 12:18 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The open warfare and shaken statehood that characterize Syria, Iraq and Libya are the painful commemoration of the Arabs’ own 100 Years War for stable, legitimate statehood. Syria, Libya and Iraq are only the most dramatic […]
Maliki’s alienation of Sunni actors is at the heart of ISIS’s success in Iraq. The story of the ongoing events in Iraq is one of lost opportunities. By December 2013, […]
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 03:05 Text Size Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a series of photos produced by the jihadist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Sensationally called The Destruction […]
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 03:05 Text Size Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a series of photos produced by the jihadist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Sensationally called The Destruction […]