| The Daily Star Joschka Fischer The “new” Middle East is now on daily display. Unlike the old Middle East, whose fate was determined by the dominant Western powers (the United Kingdom and France after World War I, and the United States from the 1940s until recently), the new one […]
Agence France Presse BEIRUT: More than 12 million children in the Middle East are not being educated despite advances in efforts to expand schooling, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said […]
Syrian-born former imam shot dead in London Murder investigation launched after Abdul Hadi Arwani, a fierce critic of Bashar al-Assad, found dead in Wembley Abdul Hadi Arwani was found dead in his car in Wembley, north-west London, on Tuesday. Photograph: YouTube Rebecca Ratcliffe and Aisha Gani Tuesday 7 April 2015 […]
B PERMIT Starting over in Switzerland By Catherine McLean swissinfo.ch FEB 4, 2015 – 11:00 Jwan Othman and Media Joulak attend German classes each day, taking turns watching the children (Catherine McLean / swissinfo.ch) Jwan Othman and Media Joulak sit down on a black couch in the tidy main […]
Source: TOI This photo of a Syrian child so scarred by war that she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender has been shared around the world.The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip […]
Source: TOI This photo of a Syrian child so scarred by war that she stared into a camera lens believing it was the barrel of a gun and raised her arms in surrender has been shared around the world.The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip […]
AMMAN — Jordan on Wednesday closed its border with Syria for security reasons, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra. The agency quoted Interior Minister Hussein Majali as saying that passenger and cargo traffic across the border was halted as a result of escalating violence in the Syrian town of […]
MAR 28, 2015 – 14:10 Iraqi security forces prepare to confront Islamic State in Tikrit (Keystone) Switzerland has appealed to the UN Security Council on Friday to prosecute war crimes in Iraq under the International Criminal Court (ICC). It also reiterated its support for a similar ICC intervention in Syria. […]
BROADER PROTECTION? Court clears way for collective asylum for Syrians MAR 19, 2015 – 15:14 The Swiss cabinet has the power to grant Syrian refugees temporary protection collectively instead of on an individual basis, according to a ruling announced on Thursday by the Federal Administrative Court in St Gallen. The […]
by Khetam Malkawi, Jordan Times, 16.3.2015 r Syrian refugees, who have been living in Jordan for two-and-a-half years since fleeing the violence in their Syrian hometown of Idlib, sit in […]
MAR 13, 2015 – 17:54 By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish broadcaster on Friday released what it said was footage of an alleged spy working for a country in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State helping three British school girls enter Syria via Turkey. Turkish Foreign Minister […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star Syria has always been much more than its geography, whether in the past or in modern times. Half a century ago Syria was called “the throbbing heart of Arabism,” and in previous centuries the word “Syria” always referred to a wider region that covered […]
The West’s latest ‘Arab Hitler’ continues to rule despite the widespread predictions of his downfall. Just what is the man’s secret, asks Robert Fisk ROBERT FISK Thursday 12 March 2015 How has Bashar Hafez al-Assad survived these past four years? Ever since the Syrian revolution of 2011, his overthrow has […]
The West’s latest ‘Arab Hitler’ continues to rule despite the widespread predictions of his downfall. Just what is the man’s secret, asks Robert Fisk ROBERT FISK Thursday 12 March 2015 How has Bashar Hafez al-Assad survived these past four years? Ever since the Syrian revolution of 2011, his overthrow has […]
By swissinfo.ch and agencies MAR 11, 2015 – 16:21 Cosar’s militia allied with Kurdish fighters who eventually liberated the northern Syrian city of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab (Keystone) Johan Cosar, a Swiss citizen who has been fighting against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, was arrested in Basel […]
Ahmed Jabra wakes at seven each morning, eats his breakfast and then decides what to do with his day. If things aren’t unusually desperate – if there’s enough money to […]
Iraq’s antiquities ministry said the extremists continue to ‘defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity’ HEATHER SAUL , HENRY AUSTIN Isis militants intensified their efforts to destroy invaluable historical landmarks in Iraq after “bulldozing” the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud near Mosul. The antiquities ministry […]
Iraq’s antiquities ministry said the extremists continue to ‘defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity’ HEATHER SAUL , HENRY AUSTIN Isis militants intensified their efforts to destroy invaluable historical landmarks in Iraq after “bulldozing” the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud near Mosul. The antiquities ministry […]
REFUGEE CRISIS Switzerland to welcome 3,000 Syrian refugees By swissinfo.ch MAR 6, 2015 – 16:18 Over 3.8 million Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries since the conflict began (Keystone) The Swiss cabinet agreed in principle on Friday to welcome an additional 3,000 Syrian refugees to Switzerland over the course of […]