BASSEM MROUE | ASP Sunday 17 February 2013 BEIRUT: Pro-government gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 people in northwestern Syria in retaliation for the abduction of 42 Shiite Muslims this week, a move that could fuel more sectarian violence in the country, an activist group said Saturday. The tit-for-tat kidnappings […]
The question whose land is it where the Israeli Settlers are where anonymous housing has been done? (Koya). First for breaking news and analysis: Compelling world news stories from NBC News journalists. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. ‘Force to be reckoned with’: Israel’s settlers dig in ahead of Obama […]
Associated Press (FOX NEWS) (of course…) JERUSALEM – Israeli soldiers provided medical treatment to wounded Syrians that approached its northern frontier and then transported them to a hospital in Israel for further treatment, the military said Saturday, in the first instance of Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war being taken […]
The Syrian government has sent a letter to the United Nations blasting Turkey’s “destructive” role in the conflict that has ravaged the country for the past 23 months. In the […]
NASA Study Revealed Alarming Loss of Water in Middle East A recent NASA study revealed that Middle East lost quantity of freshwater which is almost the size of Dead Sea […]
The world laughed when Islamists in Egypt recently threatened to destroy the Giza pyramids – despite the insane precedent of the Taliban’s dynamiting of the majestic Bamiyan Buddhas. But clearly […]
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen snags top photojournalism award for haunting image captured during Palestinian children’s funeral; violence in the Middle East a dominant theme in the competition. (Explicit images) Swedish […]
TEL AVIV — Palestinian landowners and Roman Catholic nuns at a convent near Jerusalem made a final legal appeal on Tuesday against the route of the West Bank barrier which […]
Sirwan Kajjo | February 13, 2013 THE NATIONAL INTEREST Last month, fierce clashes broke out between armed Kurdish groups and Arab militias affiliated with the government of Syria’s embattled president […]
by Ramzy Baroud ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign “Operation Desert Fox” devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 The Saline Water Conversion Corporation yesterday announced its plan to establish the world’s largest desalination plant in Rabigh, northwest of Jeddah, […]
(MENAFN – Arab News) Justice Minister Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Isa met Tuesday with a delegation from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to discuss the Saudi judiciary system among other topics.The delegation talked about the sorcery-related issues in detail, seeking answers on the concept of witchcraft and […]
AMMAN — Syria’s cultural and historical sites are under threat, the country’s top antiquities official warned on Sunday, calling on neighbouring states to step up efforts to curb potential trafficking […]
AN ARABNEWS Friday 8 February 2013 The moment a man opens his eyes to this world, he encounters a great order surrounding him. If he needs oxygen to survive, the […]
AFP | Feb 10, 2013 | 22:50 JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli defence ministry on Sunday confirmed it had given the green light for the construction of 346 new settler housing units in two settlements in the southern West Bank, a statement said. “The defence ministry has approved […]
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah outlined his vision for the spurring comprehensive reforms in his Speech from the Throne on Sunday, which inaugurated the first session of the 17th […]
The Jerusalem Post: Israel should recognize Palestine as a full member of the United Nations, outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Saturday at a weekly cultural event in Holon. […]
David Ignatius Opinion Writer WASHINGTON POST Something startling is happening in the Muslim world — and no, I don’t mean the Arab Spring or the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. According to a leading demographer, a “sea change” is producing a sharp decline in Muslim fertility rates and a “flight from […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 9 February 2013 Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar will start meeting today with Haj officials of various countries to discuss arrangement for this year’s Haj pilgrimage. Over the next three months, Hajjar will meet with officials of 70 Haj offices from different parts of the world. While […]
STORY SUMMARY Rebels block off key Damascus highway Rebels pushed forward in their battle with the Syrian army in Damascus Friday, clashing with regime soldiers in contested neighborhoods in the northeast and shutting down a key highway out of the capital with a row of burning tires, activist said. Meanwhile […]