Syrian refugees riot as rainfall worsens camp conditions
AMMAN — Violent riots erupted at the Zaatari Refugee Camp on Tuesday as heavy rain submerged hundreds of tents. According to a security source, Syrian refugees clashed with security forces […]
Finally a Syria transition plan with real prospects
by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary To help oust President Bashar Assad, a Syrian opposition group has drafted a plan for a transitional justice system that would impose harsh penalties against diehard members of his inner circle but provide amnesty for most of his Alawite supporters. To […]
Jordan: Man finds, returns JD320,000 ($450’000)
Petra | Jan 07, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES ZARQA — A man on Monday found JD320,000 in a bag in Zarqa Governorate. Zarqa Police Department Director Brig. Gen. Mohammad Thaher said the man called a radio station and informed them about the money he had found. He noted that the […]
Gaza blasts donors for holding back funds
ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday 7 January 2013 RAMALLAH, West Bank: The Palestinian self-rule government is close to being “completely incapacitated,” largely because Arab countries haven’t delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid, the Palestinian prime minister said in an interview yesterday. If allowed to continue, the Palestinian Authority’s unprecedented […]
Saudi Arabia: E-service for Umrah expanded
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 7 January 2013 The Ministry of Haj has started implementing electronic service for Umrah pilgrims this year. “We have received applications for 700 Umrah visas through the new system, including 280 from Indonesia, 227 from South Africa, 43 from Pakistan, 30 from US, 29 from Kenya, […]
Abbas orders official use of ‘State of Palestine’
(AFP) / 6 January 2013 KHALEEJ TIMES RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas gave orders on Sunday for work to begin on new passports, ID cards, drivers’ licences […]
Syrian opposition rejects Bashar al-Assad’s offer of ‘national dialogue’
Ian Black, Middle East editor The Guardian, Sunday 6 January 2013 Rebels say Syrian president offered no meaningful concessions in his first public speech in seven months Syria’s opposition and […]
Op-Ed: Christian Arabs, You are Next
Arutz Sheva: Christian Arabs are cosying up to the Muslims, but it will do them no good. They, too, are on the Jihad list. This includes a noted Palestinian Arab […]
Jordanian reform advances too slowly
Story Summary If, as I noted in my column Thursday, Jordan is the one country that best captures the many contradictory political, social, religious and cultural sentiments swirling across the Arab world, now is the best time to visit the country as these sentiments are being expressed in public during […]
Aleppo Christians find safe haven near front lines
Story Summary The ageing Christians holed up inside a retirement home in the devastated northern Syrian city of Aleppo have no light, no telephone lines, and little idea of what […]
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
2012 Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel Highlights 2012 has been an exciting year for the growth of the cultural and academic boycott of Israel, a pillar of the global BDS movement. In what follows we would like to offer the main highlights of the year. This is far from […]
“WAR ON TERROR” ACTUALLY AIMED AT ISLAM: PRESS TV
‘War on terror’ actually aimed at Islam By Dr. Kevin Barrett And if “terrorism” means “the intentional slaughter of civilians,” the US and Israel commit thousands of times more terrorism than all the Muslims of the world put together.” Public opinion polls show that the vast majority of the world’s […]
Australian Muslims donate$1 million to Syrian refugees
Petra | Jan 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) office in the Kingdom on Thursday received $1 million donated by the Muslim community in Australia to support Syrian refugees in Jordan. According to an IRW statement, an Australian delegation presented the financial assistance to […]
Iraqi Shiite cleric al-Sadr visits church, Sunni mosque as anti-government protests rage
By Associated Press, WASHINGTON POST BAGHDAD — Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reached out to Iraq’s religious minorities Friday, visiting a Baghdad church desecrated in a deadly 2010 attack and a […]
Mataf expansion work in full swing
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 4 January 2013 Works on mataf (circumambulation area around the Kabaa) expansion is being stepped up, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported. The second floor of the eastern side […]
Vandalism at Jerusalem holy site may have aimed to erase traces of Muslim past
Haaretz: About two weeks ago, a young ultra-Orthodox man was arrested after he was caught using a hammer to smash centuries-old painted wall tiles. An attempt to harm the fragile […]
Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan
Ancient manuscripts indicate Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan CBS News: A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is […]
No surprise: Syrian Opposition’s Amazing CIA credentials
Daniel McAdams Lew Rockwell.com July 14, 2012 Thanks once again to the indispensable Moon of Alabama blog for highlighting, among other interesting facts, the amazingly open ties of the Syrian opposition to their Western paymasters. As the astonishing Guardian story linked in the MoA piece outlines, down to the person […]
Settlers attack Palestinian villagers, Four Palestinians wounded
PNN Wednesday night 2nd January, clashes between settlers and Palestinians continued for a second day as around 20 settlers entered the Palestinian village of Jalud, south of Nablus. Palestinian official […]
UN: 60,000 killed in Syria war
ARAB NEWS Thursday 3 January 2013 AMMAN: More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the UN said yesterday, dramatically raising the death toll in […]