Source: Gulf News: Dubai: Tension between Sunni and Shiite Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran’s foreign minister said in comments published on Monday, accusing Sunni Arab countries of “fanning the flames” of sectarian conflict. The increasingly sectarian civil war in Syria has drawn in regional powers with […]
The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Mufid Al-Mukhalalati, has warned that frequent power outages could result in a humanitarian catastrophe claiming the lives of Palestinian patients in Gaza. […]
Polio has broken out in Syria and 20 million children are to be vaccinated BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The Syrian tragedy grows more ferocious by the week. I was shocked to learn this weekend that at least 2,000 Afghans, the poorest of the poor from the harshest country on […]
AZRAQ — Hundreds of Syrians fled to Jordan on Saturday as officials warned that an ongoing lack of funds is causing delays to the opening of the country’s third Syrian […]
MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 10 November 2013 More than 1.44 million Haj pilgrims visited Madinah this year, recent statistics have revealed. Hani Jamaan Al-Husseini, head of the statistical reports unit at the Guides Organization in Madinah, said 755,920 pilgrims visited the city before the Haj and 482,124 after […]
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The IMEU, Nov 6, 2013 On November 6, several news outlets reported that the widow of former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat announced that the results of a Swiss investigation into her late husband’s death concluded he was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive substance. In November 2012, Arafat’s […]
By Earl Shugerman Most people outside Israel are not aware of the fact that 25% of Israel’s population, are not from a Jewish background, and among them are […]
After testimony of faith, prayers (or, salat in Arabic) is the next important pillar of Islam. It was made obligatory for all the prophets and the peoples over the ages. Allah has declared its status in many places in the Qur’an: “And I have chosen you (Moses), so hearken to […]
EVERY language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with the term ‘Allah,’ which is the specific name of the one true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or […]
FP: by David Kenner — The Kingdom is turning to Pakistan to train Syria’s rebels. It’s a partnership that once went very wrong in Afghanistan. Will history repeat itself? BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia, having largely abandoned hope that the United States will spearhead international efforts to topple the Assad regime, […]
The Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), has approved $ 5,061 million for the bank’s operations plan for the year 1435H (November 2013 –November 2014), the bank’s largest annual budget ever and a 10 per cent increase on the previous year. This new operations plan coming […]
EDDAH: KHALIL HANWARE Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 Top businessmen and economists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are unanimous in their opinion that the crackdown against illegal workers following the end of the amnesty period would only benefit the Saudi economy in the long run though short-term obstacles […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID & HABIB SHAIKH Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will ask member states to sever diplomatic relations with states that recognize Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem or move their embassies to the historic city during the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) […]
by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oct 27, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has […]
The Huffington Post: Despite the current state of tension that exists between them, Muslims and Jews have a long history of tolerance and mutual admiration. Perhaps this is no more […]
Move to demolish hundreds of Arab apartments ‘destroying every chance of peace’, says Fatah Ben Lynfield Jerusalem Israel is planning to destroy hundreds of Palestinian apartments in occupied East Jerusalem […]
Reuters | 06-Nov-2013 08:34 AM Dubai: Saudi authorities rounded up thousands of illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown ultimately aimed at creating more jobs for locals, media reported on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left the kingdom following a grace period of seven […]
Columns, Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been hijacked […]
Inspired by the Cave of Hira, the Sancaklar Mosque was built seven meters underground. A mosque in Istanbul’s Buyukcekmece district won first place in the World Architecure Fest competition for […]