STORY SUMMARY By Serene Assir Daily Star Syria’s Western-backed rebels were in disarray Thursday after Washington and London suspended non-lethal aid following the loss of a key border crossing and arms depots to a powerful Islamist alliance. Last week it withdrew from the FSA’s Supreme Military Council headed by General […]
STORY SUMMARY The sectarian bloodbath in Syria is such a threat to regional security that a victory for Bashar al-Assad’s regime could the best outcome to hope for, a former CIA chief said Thursday. Michael Hayden, the retired US Air Force general who until 2009 was head of the Central […]
STORY SUMMARY The sectarian bloodbath in Syria is such a threat to regional security that a victory for Bashar al-Assad’s regime could the best outcome to hope for, a former CIA chief said Thursday. Michael Hayden, the retired US Air Force general who until 2009 was head of the Central […]
BEIRUT — A bruising winter storm brought severe weather to the Middle East Thursday, forcing the closure of roads and schools and blanketing already miserable Syrian refugee camps with snow. […]
By Mudar Zahran – Gatestone Institute …………………………….. The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one of the items at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Almost every known Arab political organization has […]
December 11, 2013 12:25 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY When the National Council of the American Studies Association last week passed a motion recommending to its members to endorse and honor the Palestinian drive to boycott Israeli academic institutions, the expected furor broke out. The […]
STORY SUMMARY Less than an hour later, the gray skies delivered the first snowfall of the winter, which pelted the plastic sheeting covering the Bazazi family tent, as Sleiman played […]
DAMMAM: HAMID AL-RUWAILI | ARAB NEWS/AL-EQTISADIAH Published — Thursday 12 December 2013 The Saudi Railway Organization (SRO) will issue tenders for the design of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) train […]
Source: Stratfor: Sunni and Shia represent the two main sects of Islam. The sectarian divide has its origins dating back to the earliest days of Islam, following the death of Prophet Mohammed in 632. At the time it was a political split on who should be the Prophet’s successor. The […]
CAIRO – There is something sadly appropriate about arriving in the Mideast on the weekend when the world is mourning Nelson Mandela. Mandela was a visionary who managed to reconcile a long-repressed black majority with the white minority that had ruled them. His name became synonymous with forgiveness, in this […]
STORY SUMMARY Lebanon witnessed Wednesday some of its first snowfall this year in the northern and eastern region as the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute warns “Alexa” has not yet reached […]
Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for the Two Holy Mosques, on Tuesday honored Arnoud van Doorn, a prominent Dutch politician who embraced Islam, by conferring on him […]
Manama. Islamic banking could be the more economically viable and sustainable model of financing going forward, a report said. Following last week’s World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) in Manama, Bahrain, the report published by Falak Consulting’s Research Department (FCRD) looks at the financial crisis of 2009 where conventional banks witnessed […]
ARABNEWS.COM RIYADH SAUDI ARABIA The Cabinet (of Saudi Arabia) on Monday ordered the General Commission for Audiovisual Media to monitor the moral and other content of traditional and electronic media, including social media platforms. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Crown Prince Salman, authorized the commission to draft laws and regulations […]
The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques has begun the work of expansion of the mataf around the Kaaba, said Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, the chief of the Presidency. The execution […]
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement to lay a pipeline between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea that will provide all three with […]
King Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) confers with the then President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on a cruiser in the Suez Canal, 15 Feb 1945 Ibn Saud meets […]
December 07, 2013 12:19 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The worsening situation in Syria threatens the Middle East in many ways that will continue to evolve in the months and years ahead. But perhaps the most troubling threat is the continued expansion of the hard-line […]
Odd Karsten Tveit By Robert Fisk, The Independent One Norwegian officer left Lebanon, with a typed report on torture, taped to his chest Odd Karsten Tweit was always a very obsessional […]
Geopolitical Weekly TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 – 04:00 Print Text Size Stratfor By George Friedman Israel has expressed serious concerns over the preliminary U.S.-Iranian agreement, which in theory will lift sanctions levied against Tehran and end its nuclear program. That was to be expected. Less obvious is why the Israeli […]