Iran is boxed in economically, militarily and politically. It has no friends left. Very few neighbours would bat an eyelid and many would quietly applaud Andrew MacLeod @AndrewMMacleod Tehran may need to abandon its own nuclear ambitions to avoid an escalation of tensions with the US Reuters Donald Trump has just signalled that […]
Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers. Truckloads of goods ranging from steel to fish have rolled into the enclave in […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a meeting with Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Tuesday that Russia is grateful to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the Turkish Stream agreement. “We are grateful to President Erdoğan for signing the Turkish Stream agreement,” he said. On […]
Reuters International NOV 22, 2016 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicola Benyahia’s teenage son slipped away one day to join the Islamic State in Syria, the frantic mother anguished over his disappearance for months while keeping it secret from her friends and most of […]
Donald Trump was facing angry demands on Monday to reverse his appointment of a man accused of fanning the flames of neo-Nazism and white supremacy as his White House chief strategist. The selection of Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of the far-right website Breitbart News and the CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign, […]
POST-BREXIT SOLUTIONS By Simon Bradley JUN 28, 2016 – 17:42 An awkward day for British Prime Minister David Cameron, in Brussels for the first post-Brexit EU meeting (Keystone) Post-Brexit Britain is likely to opt for a Swiss-style solution – rather than a Norwegian model – to oversee relations with the […]
Media outlets in both countries have revealed that a meeting between senior Turkish and Israeli officials is expected to be held in Turkey on June 26—and that shortly after, an agreement is likely to be signed and go into effect. For two of America’s closest allies in the Middle […]
Tehran Times Tourism Desk TEHRAN — Representatives of some Iranian tour and travel agencies are introducing Iran’s hidden treasures to tourism experts at the 36th edition of FITUR, the premier […]
Source: Spiegel: In the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were neither a quest for meaning, nor an opportunity for contemplation, nor an event. People had real worries and pilgrimages were part of a deal. On the one hand was the willingness of the faithful to suffer, on the other was God’s capacity […]
Huff Post: As the world deals with World Cup withdrawal, we can look forward to some of the biggest names in soccer coming together to play a friendly match in […]
First Minister Peter Robinson has publically apologised for his comments about Muslims. Mr Robinson visited the Islamic Centre in Belfast on Tuesday evening and met with representatives of the Muslim community in Northern Ireland. Speaking to the media afterwards he said: “I apologise if anything I said has caused them […]
globalonenessProject: Palestinian peaceworker Ibtisam Mahameed speaks about her role as an Arab Muslim woman working towards peace in the holy land. Mahameed speaks about her role as an Arab Muslim woman working towards peace in the holy land. She describes the need to listen with an open heart and the importance of […]
by Khaled Diab, Journalist A recent poll on Al Jazeera Arabic’s website asked who was responsible for turning the Syrian revolution into a sectarian conflict: the Sunnis or the Shi’a? Around 95% of those who voted blamed the deterioration on the Shi’a. Although this result is shocking in its own […]
Countries around the globe are drawing up strategies for Syria in case the armed conflict takes a decisive turn. For more than two years, the world has stood by as the violence in Syria has intensified. Both Bashar al-Assad’s government and the opposition seem determined to fight to the death. […]
Source: NY Times op ed By Thomas Friedman ISRAELI friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be […]
ALEPPO, Syria — Syrian rebels at the front are turning against their commanders, accusing them of being cowards by fleeing abroad and failing to unite a cause that has been […]