Source: Politico By Eli Okun Andrew Brunson, the American pastor whose two-year detention in Turkey became a diplomatic flashpoint, on Wednesday called on the international community not to forget the […]
Feb 06,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB Palestinian foreign ministry officials were in a quandary in recent months. Despite the strong support for the Palestinian cause around the world, […]
MUHITTIN ATAMAN @MuhittinAtaman Since the beginning of the Arab uprisings and revolutions in 2011, Turkey has been targeted by Western states because it has been supporting the demands of regional […]
Source: Reuters By Lesley Wroughton, Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday called on countries to take in foreign fighters captured by America’s Kurdish allies in Syria, […]
Source: Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Against the backdrop of the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula is an interfaith conference that […]
Source: Reuters ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar mosque and university, called on Muslims in the Middle East to “embrace” local Christian communities. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Tamer El-Ghobashy In the first visit by a sitting pope to the Arabian Peninsula, Pope Francis delivered on Tuesday a Mass for an estimated 180,000 people […]
Source: The New York Times By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were hailed as symbols of diversity when they were […]
Source: Reuters BY Michaela Cabrera NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France (Reuters) – Forty years ago this month, the man who would go on to lead the Islamic revolution in Iran lived in a […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Asa Fitch Jan. 27, 2019 8:00 a.m. ET DUBAI—Every Friday, on the fourth floor of a hotel conference center in this Arab business hub, […]
Source: Associated Press BY Aron Heller JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warm welcome to Lithuania’s prime minister marks his latest embrace of an eastern European leader who […]
Source: BBC News By Frank Gardner The Islamic State group (IS) has lost its short-lived caliphate in the Middle East, with hundreds – possibly thousands – of would-be international […]
Kerry Boyd Anderson January 29, 2019 Throughout human history, people have moved in response to changing climatic conditions. Today, anthropogenic climate change is exacerbating changes in the environment. In the […]
Jan 27, 2019 – Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has unveiled plans to help entrepreneurs in the Middle East to set up businesses. He is asking other countries to contribute […]
Looking to Venezuela, it’s clear the US, UK and allied governments have learned nothing from their disastrous actions in the Middle East and North Africa over the past 20 years […]
Source: BBC News Amnesty International says Iran arrested 7,000 people last year in a “shameless campaign of repression”. Those swept up by the crackdown included protesters, students, lawyers, journalists, environmental […]
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has mocked the U.S. national security adviser’s calls for a strike on Iran, in a play on the viral 10-year […]
Source: Reuters By Rami Ayyub HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – An Israeli museum plans to withdraw a sculpture depicting the McDonald’s mascot as the crucified Jesus following protests which briefly united […]
Source: The Star By NICHOLAS KEUNG More than 10,000 kilometres away from home in Saudi Arabia, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun pauses when asked about the family from whom she fled. Then the […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) – A work titled “McJesus,” depicting a crucified Ronald McDonald, at an art museum in Haifa has brought angry calls from […]