By AP – Jun 20,2015 – Last updated at Jun 20,2015 Sunni tribal leaders attend the graduation ceremony of Sunni tribal volunteers in Habaniyah, 80km west of Baghdad, on Wednesday (AP photo by Khalid Mohammed ) HABANIYAH, Iraq — Parading across a desert base, hundreds of Sunni tribesmen who graduated […]
Summary BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON Rarely has amateurism in American foreign policy in the Middle East been as glaring and shocking as it has been in the past year with regard to Washington’s policy toward ISIS. In almost every aspect of American policy related to […]
by Muath Freij, Jordan Times AMMAN — Former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz was buried in Madaba city, southwest of the capital, on Saturday. The body of Aziz arrived in […]
By AFP – Jun 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — The chief of Al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate described the rival Daesh group’s self-proclaimed caliphate as “illegitimate”, in a wide-ranging television interview aired on Wednesday. In the second part of his appearance on the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera news channel, Al Nusra […]
By AFP – Jun 04,2015 – JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — The chief of Al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate described the rival Daesh group’s self-proclaimed caliphate as “illegitimate”, in a wide-ranging television interview aired on Wednesday. In the second part of his appearance on the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera news channel, Al Nusra […]
By AP – Jun 04,2015 -JORDAN TIMES Iraq’s Badr Brigades Shiite militia detain four men that they suspect of being Daesh militants outside the oil refinery in Beiji, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. The men were planning to attack oil refinery checkpoints, the militia said (AP photo) […]
analysis https://bam.nr-data.net/1/b340ddc24f?a=5338336&pl=1433409564584&v=632.2b17625&to=MV1VYUBVXRJWB0IPWAgXYkdbG1oPUwFOSEcOSA%3D%3D&ap=289&be=2317&fe=7531&dc=2974&f=%5B%5D&perf=%7B%22timing%22:%7B%22of%22:1433409564584,%22n%22:0,%22dl%22:2081,%22di%22:5290,%22ds%22:5290,%22de%22:5490,%22dc%22:9846,%22l%22:9847,%22le%22:9880,%22f%22:2080,%22dn%22:2080,%22dne%22:2080,%22c%22:2080,%22ce%22:2080,%22rq%22:2080,%22rp%22:2081,%22rpe%22:2694%7D,%22navigation%22:%7B%7D%7D&at=HRpWFwhPThw%3D&jsonp=NREUM.setToken June 2, 2015 | 09:15 GMT <!– Militants allegedly belonging to the Islamic State guard a checkpoint near Azaz, Syria, on May 31. (Reuters) Analysis Forecast The Islamic State will prioritize the defense of its core supply lines, used to provide equipment and much-needed recruits. The Islamic State […]
There’s method in the madness of Isis’s cultural vandalism The more antiquities appear to be threatened, the more the mafias can charge for their booty by Robert Fisk, The Independent I find it all a bit odd, this concern of ours about the ruins of Palmyra. Sure, the Bride of […]
by Jordan Times | May 28, 2015 | 23:23 His Majesty King Abdullah is seen with John Defterios, CNN’s emerging markets editor, ahead of an interview on May 21 (Photo […]
Source: The Independent by Robert Fisk, The Independent For Arabs – and for Britons who lost their loved ones in his shambolic war in Iraq – Blair’s appointment was an […]
BY PAUL MCLEARY MAY 26, 2015 – 4:03 PM Shiite militias and Iraqi government forces have started to move into place around the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi in preparation for a highly-publicized but hastily-planned push to wrest the city from the fighters who chased the Iraqi army out earlier […]
RSS FOLLOW EMAIL PRINT SHARE Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star If I were Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi, I’d be slightly worried that I received a telephone call from U.S. Vice President Joe Bidenon Monday assuring continued American military support and coordination to combat ISIS. Last week, ISIS made […]
AP | May 25, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES A displaced Sunni man fleeing the violence in Ramadi carries a crying child on his shoulders, on the outskirts of Baghdad, on Sunday (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON — The Daesh group’s takeover of the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi has prompted criticism from Defence […]
AFP | May 21, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz Bridge fleeing fighting in Ramadi, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday (AP photo) BAGHDAD — They were always seen as the key to defeating the jihadists in their bastions but the fall of Ramadi […]
AFP | May 21, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz Bridge fleeing fighting in Ramadi, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday (AP photo) BAGHDAD — They were always seen as the key to defeating the jihadists in their bastions but the fall of Ramadi […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE EMIN OZMEN/ LEJOURNAL/ DER SPIEGEL Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan — men like Murad, who is now being held […]
Iraq security forces withdraw from Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, 115 kilometers west of Baghdad, on Sunday. (AP) | | A A http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.b169aa788731255dd55f1bb243b660e1.en.html#_=1431934989298&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F748546&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Ffeatured%2Fnews%2F748546&size=m&text=Troops%20flee%20as%20Ramadi%20falls%20to%20IS%20%7C%20Arab%20News%3A&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F748546%23.VVmYDGUYb4o.twitter&via=Arab_News https://apis.google.com/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&size=medium&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F748546&gsrc=3p&ic=1&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en_US.O2dKqTSvrno.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAGLTcCN31nv75zCso9dFJ8XdRgDruLMOug#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh&id=I0_1431934989181&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&pfname=&rpctoken=10554579 http://www.facebook.com/v2.0/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=172525162793917&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2FNM7BtzAR8RM.js%3Fversion%3D41%23cb%3Df32b19ebfc%26domain%3Dwww.arabnews.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.arabnews.com%252Ff1d292fc0c%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=0&font=arial&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F748546&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&ref=.VVmYDEYMtIs.like&sdk=joey&send=false&share=false&show_faces=false&width=90 AGENCIES Published — Monday 18 May 2015 Last Update 18 May 2015 4:12 am LATEST STORIES IN Featured Congratulatory calls received from Hollande, […]
AP / JORDAN TIMES / MAY 02, 2015 Rahaf Abdullah works at a sweets shop at a mall in Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdish region, on Wednesday (AP photo) ERBIL, Iraq — Two years after fleeing from her home in Damascus, 22-year-old Rahaf Abdullah is working at a gleaming mall in […]
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis? Who, What, WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news 8 August 2014 SOURCE: bbc.com Share Among the many victims of the advance of The Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East are a group of up to 50,000 Yazidis, who are trapped […]