AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Published — Friday 23 August 2013 DAMASCUS: The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a “crime against humanity,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Aug 21, 2013 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslim scholars on Wednesday called for enacting strict laws in the Arab and Muslim world criminalising takfir (apostatising of […]
Following is an unofficial translation by The Jordan Times of the final communiqué of the 16th conference of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought: In the Name of […]
Whenever there is some international action with regards to Syria, a United Nations security council meeting or a G8 conference, the Syrian insurgents create and/or propagandize some “massacre” that they allege to have been perpetrated by the Syrian government. On Monday UN chemical weapon inspectors arrived in Damascus to investigate […]
Haaretz: Ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh attempt to scare all women whose dress does not conform to strict standards by plastering warning signs on government-funded health clinics. Warning signs have […]
The World Bulletin: An area collapsed near the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem late Tuesday. According to an eyewitness, the collapse happened near the Bab as Silsila, […]
JAMAL HALABY | AP ARABNEWS Published — Tuesday 20 August 2013 AMMAN: Jordan’s king warned Tuesday that ethnic and sectarian violence sweeping across several Arab countries could lead to the […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Published — Wednesday 21 August 2013 The first wave of Haj pilgrims are expected to arrive to the Kingdom beginning next week. This year 10,000 Syrians […]
SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency) – Eighty bodies of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists have been brought from Syria to Pakistan. Shiite News has learnt reliably that the bodies of Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists are being brought to Pakistan from Syria. Hundreds of bodies have been brought so far. Latest reports said that around […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Aug 19, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslim scholars on Monday said dialogue and consensus among the Arab and Islamic nations are crucial for unity and overcoming pressing challenges facing the Ummah. At the opening of the 16th General Conference of the Royal Aal al-Bayt […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Published — Tuesday 20 August 2013 Saudi Arabia has warned foreign Hajis against politicizing the annual pilgrimage, saying it would not tolerate any move to […]
While the rage over the bloody crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood supporters by the Egyptian security services is growing among the Turkish public and government, angry Turkish officials are pointing to […]
“Netanyahu is telling the US that he wants to negotiate at the same time he is thumbing his nose at the State Department which has long been against continued settlements,” […]
The World Bulletin: The Jewish groups form association that aims to build synagogue in al-Aqsa Mahmoud Abu Atta, Al-Aqsa Foundation’s media coordinator, said that the Registrar of Israeli Associations approved […]
Haaretz: The conflict is a clash of ideologies, and such a conflict can’t be solved by drawing lines on a map. Anyone who has ever suffered from a sore throat […]
Jordan Times | Aug 18, 2013 | 23:34 AMMAN — Some 100 Muslim scholars will convene in Amman on Monday at the 16th conference of the Royal Aal al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought under the theme “Viable and Sustainable Modern Islamic State”. Several issues will be discussed at the […]
Story Summary The scholarship and serious popular literature on the Arab region in much of the Western world has improved vastly in the past few years, for the simple reason that authors have been forced to write about the realities of what ordinary Arab men and women have put on […]
Reuters | Aug 15, 2013 | 22:55 AMMAN — The top US military officer told American troops in Jordan on Thursday that their mission to help the Kingdom contain the […]
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Jordan on Friday threw their support behind Egypt as it sought to restore law and order, with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah calling […]
A full 62.9 percent of respondents said they would rather the government announced a freeze on Jewish settlement construction than release prisoners AFP , Friday 16 Aug 2013 Almost 80 percent of Israeli Jews believe a peace deal with the Palestinians is impossible, an opinion poll found on Friday, two […]