Can Muslims in America speak?
HATEM BAZIAN @hatembazian 27.05.2019 As the Israeli lobby in the U.S. demonizes the Muslim community’s right to speak for its own agenda and targets them to solidify the Republican voter […]
The Fast and the ¡Fiesta!: How Latino Muslims Celebrate Ramadan
Published 20 hours ago on May 26, 2019 By Wendy Diaz When the month of Ramadan is approaching, the Ortiz-Matos family begins to prepare the only way they know how, […]
Donald Trump welcomes Japan’s offer of mediation with Iran
Source: The Guardian President acknowledges Abe’s close links to Tehran and says US ‘would like to talk’ By Justin McCurry in Tokyo Donald Trump has said he would support Shinzo […]
UN agency aiding Palestinians rejects US bid to strip it of mandate
By Reuters – May 24,2019 -JORDAN TIMES GAZA — The head of the United Nations agency that has supported Palestinian refugees for seven decades hit back on Thursday at a […]
Iraqi protesters urge Baghdad to stay out of US-Iran showdown
Sadr campaigned last year on platform of Iraqi nationalism By Reuters – May 26,2019 -JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — Thousands of supporters of a populist Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric urged political […]
Is America tired of losing yet?
May 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Anne O. Krueger WASHINGTON, DC — Not content with its trade war against China, US President Donald Trump’s administration has also opened bilateral trade […]
Trump confirms considering pardons for US soldiers convicted of war crimes
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP WASHINGTON 24.05.2019 President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he is considering pardons for several military servicemen accused or convicted of war crimes, in what critics say […]
Trump Says the Military Industrial Complex is Pressuring him Into a War With Iran
May 21, 2019 With a thirty year Boeing veteran at the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan as Acting Secretary of Defense, and with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo at the helm, […]
Iranians tense and apprehensive as whispers of war spread
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Iranian and U.S. leaders have reassured their nations that they do not seek war. But among ordinary Iranians who already face hardship from tightening […]
Risk of nuclear war at highest since WWII, UN arms official says
REUTERS GENEVA Published 22.05.2019 The intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July, 4 2017. (Reuters […]
Iran calls on Trump to address Iranians with respect, not threat of war
May 20, 2019 FILE PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tokyo, Japan, May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo (reuters_tickers) LONDON (Reuters) – Iran urged the United States on Monday to address the Islamic Republic with respect, not threats of war, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked […]
Is John Bolton trying to drive Trump to war with Iran?
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, was a key architect of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Now he is stoking tensions with Iran. Julian Borger describes […]
Trump thinks the North Korea blueprint will work with Iran. He’s dangerously wrong
The people who will end up getting hurt are the pro-democracy Iranian activists, and I know because they told me themselves Negar Mortazavi Washington DC The Independent Voices Over the […]
Global Opinions. Federal court presses Trump administration to release Khashoggi documents
By Josh Rogin Columnist May 21 at 6:00 AM More than six months after Saudi government agents brutally murdered Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration has yet […]
Saudi paper, close to MBS, calls on US to strike Iran
May 17, 2019 A Saudi newspaper owned by one of the king’s sons has called for military strikes on Iran, as world leaders plea for de-escalation of tension […]
If Tehran ‘wants to fight’ it will be ‘official end of Iran’: Trump
US President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that if Tehran “wants to fight” it will be the “official end of Iran” in a stern warning to the Iranian regime about […]
Indicting the International Criminal Court
May 19,2019 By Aryeh Neier NEW YORK — The International Criminal Court (ICC) has come under withering criticism from the first four presidents of its oversight body, the 123-member Assembly […]
US to hold Bahrain economic conference to launch Middle East peace plan
Official does not confirm Israeli and Palestinian attendance Palestinians believe peace plan will be in favour of Israel Reuters in Washington Sun 19 May 2019 The US will hold an […]
Billionaire pledges to pay student debt for 2019 class at historic black US college
Robert Smith makes pledge to eliminate students’ debt estimated at $40m at Morehouse, Martin Luther King’s alma mater Martin Pengelly and agencies @MartinPengelly Sun 19 May 2019 My […]
Is war with Iran the next step?
BURHANETTIN DURAN @burhanduran Published 17.05.2019 Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated dangerously over the past week. Although both sides deny that war is imminent, a violent confrontation […]