UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels freed, arrive in Jordan
AMMAN — Filipino UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels on the Golan arrived in Jordan on Saturday, hours after their captors released them from an ordeal of more than three […]
Saudi (lady) journalist wins media leadership award
JEDDAH: RIMA AL-MUKHTAR ARABNEWS Sunday 10 March 2013 On the occasion of International Women’s day, Nawal Al-Rashid, Saudi managing editor of the female section at Al-Riyadh daily newspaper and secretary […]
Data shows upsurge in investments by Syrian businessmen in Jordan
The number of Syrians investing in Jordan shot up by 197 per cent during the first two months of this year, the general controller of companies, Burhan Akroush, told The Jordan Times on Saturday. Burhan Akroush said 101 Syrian investors launched new ventures at the Companies Control Department (CCD) during […]
HUMAN RIGHTS : Women “carry all” of Palestine’s sufferin
GAZA CITY (IPS) – “In Gaza we don’t lead normal lives, we just cope, and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation,” said Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time women’s rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women’s Day, when many of the world’s women […]
Bin Laden son-in-law detained overseas, brought to New York (with the help of Jordan)
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Truce of Hudaibiyah: A Grand victory in Islamic history
Epigraph: “Indeed, we have granted thee (Muhammad) a clear victory, That Allah may cover up for thee thy shortcomings, past and future, and that He may complete His favor upon […]
Allah’s mercy and the fragile world we live in
OF THE 99 beautiful names of Allah, it is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim that we use most frequently in our prayers and du’aa. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from the same Arabic root word, rahma, meaning “mercy, compassion.” Pickthall translates Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim as “the Beneficent, the Merciful,” and Yusuf Ali […]
Netanyahu’s children
…… not the prime minister’s biological children, but they all were the creation of his spirit, students of his views and pupils of his government’s policies. These Israeli skinheads are […]
Indonesian women who made it big (in Saudi Arabia)
Two Indonesian women, who came to work in Saudi Arabia as domestic helpers, have become millionaires after inheriting millions of riyals from their late Saudi husbands. The Saudi men initially employed them as domestic helpers but later married them. One of the women living in Riyadh received SR 5 million […]
MWL TV channel to spread Islamic message, defend Muslim causes
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Thursday 7 March 2013 The International Media Organization, an affiliate of the Makkah-based Muslim World League, has announced plans to establish a television channel and […]
Jordan: 8,000 saplings to be given to mosque, church goers on Friday
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Mosque and church goers will leave on Friday with tree saplings to plant in their gardens under a campaign to raise awareness about […]
Arab League clears member states to arm Syria rebels
CAIRO — Arab League ministers decided on Wednesday to let member nations arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad, and invited an opposition coalition to take the League seat formerly […]
U.N. Peacekeepers Held by Syrian Insurgents in Golan Region
By RICK GLADSTONE and ALAN COWELL New York Times Syria’s civil war entangled the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel on Wednesday, when 30 armed fighters for the insurgency detained a group of 20 peacekeepers investigating a damaged observation post, the United […]
65% of University of Jordan students are females — Tarawneh
AMMAN —University of Jordan (UJ) President Ekhleif Tarawneh on Tuesday said that 65 per cent of the 39,000 students at the university are females. Tarawneh made the remarks during a […]
Robert Fisk: John Kerry wants the Gulf to support the Syrian rebels. But which rebels? The soft, safe ones? Or those horrible, ‘terrorist’ – Why wouldn’t the Saudi royal family arm their favourite anti-Shiite militia?
Kerry has had a miserable time of it in the Gulf. He has to love them all – the kings and princes and emirs – and he needs their support against Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Because, of course, they are sending cash and weapons to the rebels. But which rebels? […]
Robert Fisk: Alawite history reveals the complexities of Syria that West does not understand – The maps long favoured in the West partition off Arab countries into ethnic divisions, but all these make clear is our own ignorance
In Syria these days, we are resorting to our racist little maps. The Alawite mountains and the town of Qardaha, home of the Assad family – colour it dark red. Will this be the last redoubt of the 12 per cent Alawite minority, to which the President belongs, when the […]
Saudi Arabia: Tough guidelines for minor marriage hailed
RIYADH: HUDA SALIH & REEM WAFAI ARABNEWS Proposed guidelines from the Ministry of Interior could make it tougher for girls below 16 to get married. Fahd Al-Bakran, a spokesman for […]
Injured Syrians pour into Jordan as border clashes rage
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times. AMMAN/MAFRAQ — Some 1,750 Syrians crossed into Jordan early Monday, pushing the total number of new arrivals over the past four days to over 7,500, […]
Israel opens Palestinians-only bus lines in West Bank (the ‘Apartheid line’?)
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel launched two Palestinians-only bus lines in the occupied West Bank on Monday, a step an Israeli rights group described as racist and which the transport ministry […]
Prince Hassan of Jordan urges Arab support for global zakat fund
Petra | Mar 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan on Sunday urged Arab and Islamic countries to support the establishment of a global fund for zakat and solidarity. During a meeting with ambassadors of Arab and Muslim countries to follow up on the initiative, Prince Hassan […]