UNHCR hails development as ‘a milestone’ for 36,000 Syrians living in desert camp Chloe Farand Officials from the IKEA Foundation, and the U.N. refugee agency tour a newly inaugurated solar […]
By AFP – May 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Residents of Al Qaboun, a formerly rebel-held northeastern suburb of Damascus, wait in an area designated by the Syrian government for […]
By Simon Bradley May 15, 2017 Children stand among destroyed homes in Autaya in eastern al-Ghouta, Syria, on May 11, 2017(Keystone) Round six of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending […]
Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices A doctor tends to a soldier injured in fighting in Qaraqosh in Mosul, Iraq Getty/Chris McGrath The details were horrific. Outside the besieged […]
BY MIRREN GIDDA ON 5/12/17 Italian Police Seize $81 Million Libya Drug Shipment http://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.168.0_en.html#goog_1472310927 In the past three months investigators across Europe have intercepted thousands of pills of the Islamic […]
Syria’s conflict will end with many more casualties and many more missing than the Lebanese civil war. Vast areas of towns and cities are razed to the ground Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices 2 days ago After its titanic civil war, can Syria remain a united state? And if it does […]
Source: BBC By Sylvia Smith Image copyrightRICHARD DUEBELImage captionThe citadel in Aleppo, Syria, has suffered damage during the country’s six-year-long conflict A recent conference in Bahrain brought together experts in […]
By Reuters – May 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units head a convoy of US military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to […]
Reutes International MAY 8, 2017 – Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday that his government would abide by the terms of a Russian plan for […]
By AFP – May 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Buses carrying Syrian civilians and rebels, evacuated from Al Waer district of Homs, arrive to Jarabulus — which was liberated from the Daesh terror group as part of the operation Euphrates Shield, carried out by the Free Syrian Army with Turkish […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL PublishedMay 6, 2017 Some 250 U.S. soldiers and 48 military vehicles have entered the town of Malikiyah in Eastern Syria, near the Turkish border, to support the outlawed terrorist group PKK’s Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian Local Coordination Committee (LCC) reported Friday. According to […]
May 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The endorsement of a plan to establish four major deescalation zones in Syria by the sponsors of the Astana peace talks on the Syrian […]
By AFP – May 05,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A female fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces, which consists of an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, stands near Tishreen Farms, some 17 kilometres north of Raqqa, on Tuesday (AFP photo) MAZRAAT TISHREEN, Syria — Dozens of black veils dotted […]
By AFP – May 05,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Russian mediator Alexander Lavrentiev, Iranian deputy foreign minister, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov and UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura attend the signing of a memorandum on creating safe zones in Syria during the fourth round […]
by: Nasim Hasan Naqvi The creation of hospitals as institutions for the care of sick people was developed during the early Islamic era. Over time, hospitals were found in all […]
By AFP – Apr 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A displaced Syrian child, who fled the countryside surrounding the Deash group stronghold of Raqqa, looks on as he is being held by a woman at a temporary camp in the village of Ain Issa on Friday (AFP photo) ISTANBUL […]
Johnson spoke grandly of using ‘submarine-based cruise missiles in the Med’ against Assad to support Trump, but in fact Britain’s capacity to do anything militarily effective is very limited Patrick Cockburn @indyworld There is nothing surprising in Boris Johnson saying that it would be difficult for the UK not to […]
Source: BBC By Alex Forsyth BBC News, Beirut There’s a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar’s eyes as he explains what he does for a living. He used to work […]
Reuters International APR 27, 2017 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has given the military the authority to reset a confusing […]
Moshe Ya’alon’s office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group BY JUDAH ARI GROSS April 24, 2017, Former Israeli defense minister Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya’alon speaks at the Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) WRITERS Judah Ari GrossJudah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military […]