Arab World

Applaud U.S. pragmatism on Hamas

May 21, 2014 12:11 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY This is a significant change from the situation eight years ago, when Hamas won the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections and headed the new government, which promptly elicited an Israeli-American boycott of that government. This time, […]

Iran’s role in the Middle East grows

STORY SUMMARY Iran’s role in the Middle East grows A few months ago we pretty much hit the bottom in violence and political discord across the entire Middle East, with active wars and insurgencies and daily terrorism defining many quarters of the region. These two are Iran-United States relations, in […]

Makkah in focus as MERS spreads

RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN The World Health Organization reported on Friday new cases of laboratory-confirmed MERS coronavirus cases in Jordan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, UAE and the US. Two confirmed cases of the virus in the Netherlands and in the US had a travel history to the Kingdom. The other victims of […]

For Palestinians, the ICC path beckons

STORY SUMMARY Seventeen respected international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and prominent Palestinian groups Al-Dameer and Al-Haq, this week urged the Palestinian government to promptly join the International Criminal Court and use it to end a lack of accountability for alleged crimes committed by both sides […]