U.S. judge halts deportation of Iraqis nationwide
Source: Reuters By Steve Friess | DETROIT A federal judge halted late on Monday the deportation of all Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States this month […]
US warns Syria over ‘potential’ plan for chemical attack
Source: BBC News The US says it has identified “potential preparations” for another chemical attack in Syria, and issued a stark warning to the Syrian government. The White House said […]
Jewish groups cancel meetings with Netanyahu in protest
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Two high-profile groups of Jewish leaders on Monday canceled meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protest his government’s decision to […]
Voices grow louder in Turkey to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum back to mosque
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Umar Farooq As the time for afternoon prayers approaches, Onder Soy puts on a white robe and cap and switches on the microphone in a small 19th century room adjoining the Hagia Sophia. Soon, Soy’s melodic call to prayer rings out over a square filled […]
Qatar demands difficult to meet, says US
Source: BBC News Some demands set by four Arab states on Qatar in return for lifting sanctions will be “difficult to meet”, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says. However, […]
Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War
Source: Time By Yuval Noah Harari Jun 23, 2017 IDEAS Harari is the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of […]
Passions flare as Turkey excludes evolution from textbooks
Source: BBC News By Selin Girit BBC News, Istanbul Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionCharles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is set to be expunged from textbooks used by 14 and 15 year […]
Baghdadi death near 100 percent certain: Interfax quotes Russian senator
Source: Reuters By Christian Lowe | MOSCOW The likelihood that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed is close to 100 percent, Interfax news agency quoted the head […]
18 Israeli fighter jets landed in Saudi Arabia to prevent coup
Source abna24.com 18 Israeli fighter jets along with two Gulfstream aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to prevent any hostile or military moves by former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz who was replaced with Saudi King Salman’s son. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz announced on Wednesday his decision […]
Shock and anger in Mosul after mosque destroyed
Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 […]
Israel calls for Saudi Arabia ties and state visits
Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister has called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Riyadh to establish full diplomatic relations. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya on Thursday, Yisrael Katz also asked King Salman to send newly appointed crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel […]
Saudi king’s son Mohammed bin Salman is new crown prince
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia’s king has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince – replacing his nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, as first in line to the throne. […]
Syria conflict: US jet ‘downs Iranian-made drone’
Source: BBC News A US jet has shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by forces backing the Syrian government in the south of the country, American officials say. The drone […]
Israel goodwill Ramadan efforts cut after Palestinian attack
Source: Associated Press By IAN DEITCH JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel revoked on Sunday the permits of 200,000 Palestinians to enter Israel that were approved for the holy month of Ramadan […]
Syria conflict: Russia issues warning after US coalition downs jet
Source: BBC Russia has warned the US-led coalition fighting in Syria that it will view its aircraft as targets, after a Syrian military plane was shot down. The coalition said it had shot down the Syrian SU-22 after it bombed US-backed rebels in Raqqa province on Sunday. Russia, Syria’s main […]
US military to shift for the first time the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) into Syrian territory from Jordan
Source: AT The move by the US military to shift for the first time the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) into Syrian territory from Jordan is “breaking news.” According to CNN, the deployment will be at the military base in Al-Tanf near Syria’s border with Iraq in the south-eastern […]
US coalition in first downing of Syrian army plane
Source: BBC A US-led coalition fighter jet has shot down a Syrian military plane in Raqqa province, the US has confirmed. The SU-22 fighter bomber was engaged by an F/A-18E Super Hornet after it had dropped bombs near the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Pentagon said.It is the first time in […]
Russia’s military says it may have killed IS leader; West, Iraq skeptical
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov and Ahmed Rasheed | MOSCOW/BAGHDAD Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike in […]
Arab world’s coming challenges
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor […]
Reading Erdogan’s Ambitions in Turkey’s New Mosques
Source: The New York Times A building spree of houses of worship is furthering the Islamicizationof the country and providing an ongoing economic engine. Photographs by NORMAN BEHREND In […]