Haaretz: Chemi Shalev believes Obama may be more effective than thought in rekindling the peace process, Aluf Benn considers how as Israeli dependence on the U.S. will rise as it […]
The Times of Israel: The US president is delivering the main address of his Israel visit, to students in Jerusalem, before a state dinner at the President’s Residence. Earlier, in […]
The Independent: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion. Photographs obtained by The Independent reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent So will it be tragedy, farce or tourism? Obama’s a tourist, so says the Davy Crockett of the American journalistic frontier and philosopher king of The New York Times (aka T Friedman, Esq), but he’s wrong. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Public Speech-making […]
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 will be noted as a sad day in the history of Indonesia. On that day, a group of people on their way home from attending an Islamic New Year parade attacked the Santo Albertus church under construction in Bekasi. Fortunately, no one was injured in the […]
Jeddah: ARAB NEWS Thursday 21 March 2013 Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said that yesterday’s positive rating announced by Fitch Ratings, an international agency, would enhance confidence in the strength of Saudi economy and its continued growth. His remarks came after Fitch Ratings affirmed Saudi Arabia’s Long-Term foreign and local currency […]
Source: JORDAN TIMES TARTOUS — This once sleepy Syrian port now buzzes with shoppers milling about crowded marketplaces. Lines of cars wait patiently at traffic lights — a rare mark […]
‘We stand together because peace must come to the Holy Land’: ‘I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds between our nations, to restate America’s unwavering […]
By Susanne Koelbl DER SPIEGEL The West insists that for any negotiations on an end to the Syrian civil war to happen, President Bashar Assad must first step down. The […]
It promises to be a quiet day. Only one guard is posted on the front line in the clay hills 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. […]
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: March 18, 2013 CAIRO — King Abdullah II of Jordan leads one of the smallest, poorest and most vulnerable Arab nations. […]
By BEN HUBBARD | Associated Press YAHOO NEWS ..ISTANBUL (AP) — The man chosen to head the Syrian opposition’s new interim government is a Syrian-born American citizen who has spent […]
by Gaelle Sundelin | Mar 18, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — With no funding secured yet for the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project, the scheme needs the cooperation […]
Saudi Arabia has announced new measures at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Crown Prince Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense. The Council of Ministers yesterday adopted a series of decisions to drive out illegal foreign workers who violate the Kingdom’s residency and labor regulations. The move also targets […]
by Muhammad Sahimi, March 18, 2013 March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, […]
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — Jordan downplayed reports of rising tensions with Damascus on Sunday, refuting accusations by Syrian officials of Jordanian support for rebel forces. Minister of […]
BAGHDAD: The 21-year-old college student in Baghdad lost her father during the Iraq War to gunmen from a rival Muslim sect. Now she dreams of an Iraq where all people […]
By BEN EHRENREICH NEW YORK TIMES On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi’s house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with […]
By RASHID KHALIDI NEW YORK TIMES WHAT should Barack Obama, who is to visit Israel next Wednesday for the first time in his presidency, do about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? First, he must abandon the stale conventional wisdom offered by the New York-Washington foreign-policy establishment, which clings to the crumbling remnants […]
STORY SUMMARY At least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein, a new report published on Sunday said. Including combatants on all sides of the decade-long conflict, as well as yet undocumented civilian fatalities, the figure could rise […]