Source: Stratfor: The June 15 edition of the Jordan Times reported that Amman had beefed up security along its border with Iraq amid fears that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is inching toward the kingdom. Quoting unnamed Islamist sources, the report added that the jihadist group had […]
Now we will have the bizarre spectacle of the US joining Iran in strengthening the Al Maliki regime against the ISIS threat, while trying to bring down Iran’s Syrian ally, President Bashar Al Assad, a goal Washington shares with ISIS Razi Azmi June 19, 2014 The pharaoh is having the […]
Now we will have the bizarre spectacle of the US joining Iran in strengthening the Al Maliki regime against the ISIS threat, while trying to bring down Iran’s Syrian ally, President Bashar Al Assad, a goal Washington shares with ISIS Razi Azmi June 19, 2014 The pharaoh is having the […]
June 19, 2014 12:11 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Let’s look at the reality on the ground in the Middle East: Iraq and Syria are effectively partitioned along sectarian lines; Lebanon and Yemen are close to fracturing; Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia survive intact, but as […]
Loonwatch: By Jai Singh Previous articles in this series: “Narendra Modi and the rise of India’s neo-fascist Far-Right”, and “Nazism and Narendra Modi: The ideological influence on India’s next Prime Minister”. India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member of both the Bharatiya Janata Party(“BJP”) and its neo-Nazi paramilitary “ideological […]
By Anees Ahmad Nadeem, President & Missionary In-charge, Japan Mr. Hibi Kazuaki welcomed the biggest mosque project of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Tsushima Japan. He expressed his feeling during the meeting with Mr. Anees Ahmad Nadeem […]
Conservatives Berate Muslim Woman After She Stood Up For Islam The Huffington Post: A Heritage Foundation panel on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, turned ugly on Monday after a Muslim […]
by Sami Ramadani, THE GUARDIAN Tony Blair has been widely derided for his attempted justification of the 2003 Iraq invasion, and his claim last weekend that he’s blameless over the current turmoil. Unfortunately, though, many of his critics have also bought into a central plank of his argument: that Iraqi […]
One of the facts exposed by recent events in Iraq is that the Gulf states have no strategy for addressing the troubles pulsing dangerously through that country beyond “wait and see”. These Arab countries are suddenly facing unprecedented challenges in Iraq: insurgents have eradicated the border with Syria, reached the […]
MOHAMMED FAHAD AL-HARTHI Published — Wednesday 18 June 2014 ARABNEWS.COM At the annual Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona this week, I was one of many delegates taken by surprise by the head of the Catalonian government welcoming us to the future state of Catalonia. He then went on to […]
June 18, 2014 12:18 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The open warfare and shaken statehood that characterize Syria, Iraq and Libya are the painful commemoration of the Arabs’ own 100 Years War for stable, legitimate statehood. Syria, Libya and Iraq are only the most dramatic […]
ET: Pakistan and India have steadily increased their nuclear arsenal from 70-90 and 60-80 warheads in 2010, to 100-120 and 90-110 respectively by 2014, a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday. According to the report, both Pakistan and India have not only been developing new […]
Miracle Crop: India’s Quest to End World Hunger Source: Spiegel Online International By Philip Bethge But for the global champions of the new, gentle Green Revolution and its campaign against hunger, this is but one of many successful attempts to develop more nutritious grain and vegetable varieties. In Brazil, for […]
Miracle Crop: India’s Quest to End World Hunger Source: Spiegel Online International By Philip Bethge But for the global champions of the new, gentle Green Revolution and its campaign against hunger, this is but one of many successful attempts to develop more nutritious grain and vegetable varieties. In Brazil, for […]
Maliki’s alienation of Sunni actors is at the heart of ISIS’s success in Iraq. The story of the ongoing events in Iraq is one of lost opportunities. By December 2013, […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in “No one knows what will happen next, or tomorrow – or who will get shot at or stabbed somewhere… To expect that police will protect Ahmadi lives, I seriously doubt […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Thousands of billboards, banners, posters and signage on taxis and rickshaws have sprung up during the last few weeks in every part of the city advertising a ‘6-day, […]
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 03:05 Text Size Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a series of photos produced by the jihadist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Sensationally called The Destruction […]
Geopolitical Weekly Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 03:05 Text Size Stratfor By Reva Bhalla Events in Iraq over the past week were perhaps best crystallized in a series of photos produced by the jihadist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Sensationally called The Destruction […]
The Middle East is experiencing yet another one of its periodic convulsions. The region lives from crisis to crisis, but the events in Iraq last week may speak to something larger, a geopolitical watershed that leaves key players in disarray. After $1tn in total spending, US hopes for Iraq are […]