Turkey to send Daesh prisoners to home countries
Arab News Saturday . November 02, 2019 Updated 9 sec ago Reuters November 02, 2019 ISTANBUL: Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday Turkey would send captured Daesh members back […]
Indonesian man who helped set strict adultery laws flogged for adultery
Source: BBC An Indonesian man – who worked for an organisation that helped draft strict adultery laws – has been publicly whipped after being caught having an affair with a […]
The new revolutions of the Middle East are not the same, but they all share this one fatal flaw
They have no leadership, no recognisable faces of integrity. And – the greatest tragedy of all – they don’t seem to be interested in finding any Robert Fisk in Beirut […]
Migrants on Greek islands ‘on edge of catastrophe,’ rights watchdog says
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Published 31.10.2019 The situation for migrants in camps on Greek islands is “explosive” and “on the edge of catastrophe,” the Council of Europe’s commissioner for […]
TheFace: Lubna Abdul Aziz Al-Khalidi, Saudi media personality
I am an emerging media figure working for the Eastern Region Channel and a director of corporate communications, public relations and media in a major Saudi investment company. Born […]
Tug of war
Oct 31,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh Over the past couple of decades in particular, our world has undergone dramatic changes. Globalisation, the information and technology revolution, postmodernism, […]
Jammu and Kashmir: India formally divides flashpoint state
The area is one of the most militarised in the world India has formally divided the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two new federally-administered territories. In the new […]
Trump is not the first, and will not be the last, US politician to exploit, then drop the Kurds
Oct 30,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN In response to US President Donald Trump’s personal triumphalism over the slaying by US forces of Daesh’s leader, Kurdish militia Commander Mazloum […]
Islamic State Baghdadi raid video released as US general warns of Isis reprisal attacks
General Kenneth McKenzie says Isis will remain a threat as he shows footage of raid on leader’s Syria hideout Julian Borger in Washington Wed 30 Oct 2019 Pentagon […]
Whistleblower who escaped Chinese ‘re-education camp’ reveals horrors of the gulag:
Ex-teacher tells how inmates were flayed, raped by guards in front of other prisoners, and given injections that made them infertile Managed to escape to neighbouring Kazakhstan and […]
Ahmadis Once Again Fear the Fallout From Pakistan’s Political Tussles
“All political issues, which have nothing to do with us, see us becoming the scapegoats,” says the Ahmadiyya community’s spokesperson. By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid October 28, 2019 Credit: Pixabay The […]
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Charles Burnett When a sixteenth-century medical writer referred to Phoenicians, alongside Arabs, as exceptionally important medical sources, he was probably referring to the Muslim and Jewish doctors of Qayrawan, […]
Back from jihad: The citizens that Switzerland would like to disown
. By Samuel Jaberg Aug 31, 2016 Switzerland is considering several options against jihadis, including the application of a law stripping them of their Swiss nationality (AFP) Should a young […]
Pakistani police demolish mosque of minority Ahmadi sect
Source: Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A spokesman for Pakistan’s minority Ahmadis says authorities demolished a 70-year-old mosque belonging to the sect in a remote village in eastern Punjab […]
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about
Oct 29,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for […]
Lebanon’s PM Saad Hariri resigns as protesters come under attack
Hariri says he intends to make ‘positive shock’ to country gripped by mass protests Martin Chulov in Beirut Tue 29 Oct 2019 Lebanon’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, has announced […]
Trump may have claimed to kill al-Baghdadi, but he has brought Isis back to life
As for claiming that the world ‘is now a much safer place’, well let’s wait and see. These Islamist cults usually have a chrysalis leader waiting to take the place […]
Syrian Kurds say spy stole Baghdadi’s underpants for DNA test
Syrian Democratic Forces also claim they played a key role in tracking down Baghdadi to a compound in northern Syria Julian Borger in Washington and Martin Chulov in Beirut Mon […]
Panic in Pakistani City After 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V.
Source: New York Times By Zia ur-Rehman and Maria Abi-Habib RATODERO, Pakistan — Nearly 900 children in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero were bedridden early this year with raging […]
A former top US counterterrorism official explains what Baghdadi’s death means for ISIS
Michael Leiter, who led the National Counterterrorism Center during the Osama bin Laden raid, offers his thoughts on the Baghdadi operation. By Alex Ward@AlexWardVoxalex.ward@vox.com Oct 27, 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]