By AFP – Aug 03,2015 – Last updated at Aug 03,2015 0 0 googleplus0 0 0 A file picture taken on August 13, 2014, shows displaced Iraqi families from the Yazidi community crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq. One year since the brutal onslaught of […]
Dawn: In the aftermath of war or exodus, when one community leaves their religious or secular buildings behind them, there is always another community which occupies these buildings. The same occurred after the India-Pakistan Partition. A majority of the buildings which once belonged to the Sikhs and Hindus were given […]
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
Source: Religion News Service JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at […]
By Nick Tattersall KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Packets of cigarettes and tea gathering dust in his one-room store, Mustafa Karatas doubts a joint U.S.-Turkish plan to flush Islamic State militants from the Syrian border will make much difference to his business any time soon. This main commercial street in Karkamis, […]
546. Commandment – And make ready for them whatever you can of armed force and of mounted pickets at the frontier, whereby you may frighten the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you know not, but Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah, it […]
Foreign Policy: There’s a popular narrative that, as the centuries roll on, many ancient human evils, if not wholly eradicated, are at least in decline. Human sacrifice, slavery, ritual and genital mutilation, witchcraft accusations, torture — these things, the story goes, have become so stigmatized that they may never resurge […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
545. Commandment – No blame lies on the weak, nor on the sick, nor on those who find naught to spend, if they are sincere to Allah and His Messenger [9:91] No blame lies on the weak, nor on the sick, nor on those who find naught to spend, if they […]
Aug 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The Turkish military intervention against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and Daesh marks a new turning point in the Syrian crisis. Undeniably, many questions could be raised regarding the timing and the real objectives of this move. Turkey has played a major […]
By Jordan Times – Aug 02,2015 – Last updated at Aug 02,2015 AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minster and Education Minister Mohammad Thneibat said on Sunday public schools cannot absorb any new students whether from UNRWA schools or Syrian students not yet enrolled. In remarks to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, […]
By Christoph Reuter spiegel.de Ali Arkady/VII/DER SPIEGEL Earlier, fighters with the League of Righteous Shiite militia tortured and murdered. But now they intend to save Iraq from the Islamic State. Can it work? A trip to the front in the city of Baiji explains much about the current […]
A view inside the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (AN photo by Ahmad Hashad) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 2 August 2015 JEDDAH: More than 26 million Umrah pilgrims and worshippers visited the Grand Mosque during the month of Ramadan and in the first few days after Eid Al-Fitr, thanks […]
By AFP – Jul 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians from the Jalazoun refugee camp hold their national flag as they watch at bulldozers demolishing the so-called Dreinoff buildings under an Israeli high court ruling in the settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday […]
Source: dnaindia.com The question is: Does South Asia deserve its Nobel laureates? If the answer is ‘Yes’, then why are they treated in such a rotten manner, as if they are […]
Islam and Catholicism were found to have the highest proportion of believers under the age of 30 …………. According to a recent survey by Renmin University, religious Chinese are getting […]
By Maximilian Popp and Christoph Reuter spiegel.de OZAN KOSE/ AFP Turkish President Erdogan claims to be battling the terrorist Islamic State, but in reality he is mainly fighting against Kurds and the PKK. By doing so, he has shown that he is willing to derail the peace process […]
Jul 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES RAMI G. KHOURI Events related to the Iran nuclear technology/sanctions agreement, the war in Yemen, and the battle against Daesh tend to dominate the headlines from the Middle East these days, but behind the scenes significant developments related to the Arab-Israeli conflict continue to take […]
By Khaled Abdullah swissinfo.ch SANAA (Reuters) – Born just before the outbreak of Yemen’s devastating war, Ali Mohammed al-Tawaari may well not survive it. Damaged by a lack of skilled […]
Associated Press By KEN DILANIAN, ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE WASHINGTON (AP) — After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is […]