STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
STORY SUMMARY The Shiite-led government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remained in paralysis Friday, unable to form a coherent response after al-Qaida-inspired militants blitzed and captured entire chunks of the nation’s Sunni heartland this week, including major cities, towns, military and police bases as Iraqi forces melted away or […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Friday 13 June 2014 Last update 12 June 2014 11:53 pm MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that the spectacular seizure of Iraqi […]
BAGHDAD — A major offensive by jihadists is allowing Iraqi Kurds to take control of disputed territory that Baghdad has long opposed them adding to their autonomous northern region. With […]
‘We were fighting, but our leaders betrayed us,’ said Iraqi soldier who fled from Islamic Front fighters The Associated Press Posted: Jun 13, 2014 2:12 AM ET Last Updated: Jun […]
The Monitor’s View: Can an Islamic caliphate survive in today’s Mideast? As the Muslim militant group ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria, its chances of establishing a strict Islamic theocracy […]
The Monitor’s View: Can an Islamic caliphate survive in today’s Mideast? As the Muslim militant group ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria, its chances of establishing a strict Islamic theocracy […]
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The fighters with the Free Syrian Army were expecting an attack any day from the jihadists besieging the city of Minbej in war-torn Syria, fortifying their base, […]
Turkey has promised to retaliate if any of its citizens are harmed in Iraq, after 49 members of the Turkish consulate in Mosul were abducted by the Islamic State of […]
STORY SUMMARY Of all the Arab countries today that suffer violence or enjoy a superficial calm on the surface, Iraq is the saddest in my view, because of what it has not become in the last decade since the downfall of the hard and vicious Baathist regime. It is painful, […]
STORY SUMMARY by David Ignatius Iraq appears to be slipping back into civil war, and Sheikh Zaydan al-Jabiri, one of the political leaders of the Sunni insurgent group known as the Tribal Revolutionaries, seems confident that his side is winning. Make no mistake: Brutal sectarian war has come again to […]
Story Summary At the last elections, in 2010, it was clear that what the people of Iraq wanted did not really matter, and that with Iran’s backing, Nouri al-Maliki was sure to be re-elected. Having endured so much over the last 11 years, with hundreds of thousands dead and a […]
BRIEFING: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah receives Crown Prince Salman at Khoraim Gardens outside Riyadh. Prince Salman briefed the king on his five-nation tour. (SPA) RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Published — Tuesday 18 March 2014 Saudi Arabia on Monday denounced Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki for accusing […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council (EC) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani deplored the spread of terrorism in the world, and called for practical measures by all Muslim countries to eradicate terrorist and extremist groups. “Terrorists must be prevented from establishing bases in Muslim countries,” Rafsanjani said in a meeting with […]
STORY SUMMARY Moscow accused Washington Thursday of prolonging the Syrian conflict by supporting the opposition, on the eve of a UN Security Council vote that threatens to further deepen big […]
by Thomas Sowell. The Afghanistan government’s recent release of dozens of imprisoned terrorists, many of whom had killed Americans, was a galling betrayal of those Americans who died defending Afghanistan […]
By Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) Several months ago when I wrote about the looming danger of the growing strength of Salafist-takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria, I focused on the threats that thousands of their fighters, bombers and terrorists posed to those countries and also to […]
Occupation by any other name Al Maliki’s legacy and US occupation have done much more to foment violence than all other factors combined By Ramzy Baroud | Special to Gulf News Published: 20:00 February 11, 2014 Al Maliki’s legacy and US occupation have done much more to foment violence than […]
Robert Fisk: The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice These young women should be listed on some roll of martyrdom Share 421 The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about […]
AP In this archive photo, then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder can be seen making a mobile phone call in June 2002. It wasn’t only Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone that was on the NSA’s target list. New German media reports claim the US spy agency also tapped Gerhard Schröder’s phone calls in […]