DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Bana Alabed (L), settled in Turkey she arrived from Aleppo with her family. Bana Alabed, 7, a Syrian girl whose Twitter posts on life during wartime in Aleppo made her a phenomenon, pleaded to U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the ban on Syrians. […]
Feb 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President Donald Trump said last week that he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria”, intended to protect the displaced, vulnerable Syrians and, presumably, put an end to the flow of refugees to the West, the US included. The departments of state and […]
Fort McMurray’s population rises by 6 — make that 7 — after new family of Syrian refugees arrive By David Thurton, CBC News Posted: Feb 01, 2017 Ibtesam Alkarnake was already in labour when she and her Syrian refugee family arrived at the Fort McMurray airport on Tuesday night. Hours later […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 31 January 2017 This file photo taken on December 13, 2016 shows fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces siting on a heavily armed vehicle near the village of Khirbet al-Jahshe, on the western outskirts of Raqa as they […]
Reuters International JAN 29, 2017 – 01:51 A displaced Iraqi boy holds a white flag as his family flees during the battle between Iraqi rapid response forces and Islamic State militants at Tigris river frontline between east and west of Mosul , Iraq, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (reuters_tickers) By […]
Sarah Lee Jan 28, 2017 On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order freezing the refugee resettlement program and is expected to prioritize Christian refugees over Muslim refugees. But there’s a group of immigrants — many of them Muslim — waiting for their visas that are also being frozen […]
Reuters International JAN 28, 2017 – Women check their luggage after arriving on a flight from Dubai on Emirates Flight 203 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, U.S., January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (reuters_tickers) By Yeganeh Torbati and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection to tackle Islamophobia Trump’s latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Washington (CNN) With just a […]
January 23, 2017 James Miller A screen grab from a video released by the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency, said to be in Palmyra on December 11 Share There are at least four separate coalitions that claim to be battling the extremist group Islamic State (IS). Three of those coalitions […]
Source: Time By Sarah Begley The young Syrian girl who gained an international following for tweeting about conditions in Aleppo has written an open letter to President Donald Trump, calling on the new president to “save the children and people of Syria.” Bana Alabed, 7, fled Aleppo with her family […]
Reuters International JAN 25, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a meeting with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (reuters_tickers) By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting […]
By Reuters – Jan 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighbourhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria, on Friday (AP photo by Hassan Ammar) ASTANA — Russia and regional powers Turkey and Iran backed a shaky truce between Syria’s warring parties […]
Source: Asia Times: After five long years of war and bloodshed, Syria’s Assad is not only standing as ‘the leader’ of the country but the international support for him has also increased. Thanks to Russia’s and Iran’s continuous support. The extent and the effectiveness of the support these countries have […]
Source: The Guardian A Syrian family shelters in a Turkish refugee camp. 20,000 vulnerable refugees are to be resettled in Britain by 2020. Photograph: Dona B /Pacific/ Barcroft Images BY Harriet […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura (R) and Mohammed Alloush, the Syrian leader of the opposition delegation (L-2) arrive for talks on the Syrian conflict, Astana, Kazakhstan, 23 January 2017. (EPA Photo) Syrian opposition members vowed Monday to keep fighting if the peace talks fail […]
JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The Astana peace talks brokered by Russia and Turkey appear to be in precarious position due to the fact that the ceasefire between Damascus and the rebel forces, painstakingly brokered by Moscow and Ankara, is often violated. As such, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday […]
The mandate of the United Nations is to preserve peace in the world, but when it comes to the Syrian crisis, the global body has failed badly. Will the UN’s new secretary-general be able to finally introduce necessary reforms? By SPIEGEL Staff Photos AFP January 12, 2017 02:49 PM The […]
Source: The Guardian By Martin Chulov in Beirut In the valleys between Damascus and Lebanon, where whole communities had abandoned their lives to war, a change is taking place. For the […]
By Rana Husseini – Jan 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Hani Mulki addresses a meeting where a new refugee response plan was agreed with donors in Amman on Thursday (Petra photo) AMMAN — The government and the international community on Thursday endorsed a $7.6-billion three-year Jordan Response […]
SINAN ÖZTÜRK@sinan_ozturk ISTANBUL The new heir to the throne of the scattered Ottoman dynasty, which once ruled the strongest empire in the world, has witnessed the horrors of the Syrian civil war since 2011 in his native Damascus. Dündar Abdülkerim al-i Osman, the oldest male member of the Ottoman family, […]