President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia is the beginning of a crucial new policy. Trump is hoping to bolster ties with the Saudis and challenge Iran. This is also a way to prove he can execute a difficult deal. Jake Novak | @jakejakeny Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images […]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and PETER BAKER MAY 20, 2017 Slide Show SLIDE SHOW|3 Photos Trump Arrives in Saudi Arabia Trump Arrives in Saudi Arabia CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times […]
The events planned for the President’s summits in Riyadh are pretentious and reek of hypocrisy. There’s even one dedicated to Twitter – in a nation that locks up anyone who uses […]
Source: Independent Exclusive: For the Pentagon to suggest that this was a sideshow to Washington’s battle against Isis was to stretch the truth beyond credibility Robert Fisk The Pentagon’s account […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 17 May 2017 JEDDAH: US President Donald Trump’s first official foreign trip since taking office will include three key summits on May 20-21, attended […]
Reuters International MAY 17, 2017 – President Donald Trump gestures as he addresses the graduating class of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy during commencement ceremonies in New London, Connecticut, U.S. May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (reuters_tickers) NEW LONDON, Conn. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would […]
The Sunni Saudis and the Gulf kings possess immense wealth, the only religion that Trump really respects, and they want to destroy Shia Iran, Syria, the Hezbollah and the Houthis – which is a […]
Jeremy Scahill November 15 2016, 7:27 p.m. THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through the souls of compassionate, humane people across the country and the world. Horror that a […]
The White House has denied the accusation – sort of Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe Treasonous, amateurish, boastful or plain hapless? As Washington was sent spinning from the latest Donald […]
By AFP – May 16,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Palestinian protesters take part in a demonstration marking the 69th anniversary of Nakba, which remember those displaced at the time of the 1948 founding of Israel, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday […]
‘An exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities’ Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncomb A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of […]
Reuters International MAY 15, 2017 – People protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/David Ryder […]
May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby There is no question that in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, vulnerable religious communities are facing threats to their very survival or serious problems of discrimination. In situations such as these, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom […]
May 14, 2017 by Muslims Writers Guild of America by Richard Reno We’ve all seen the tragic images of children killed or injured in the Syrian civil war. An estimated 55,000 children have been killed in the fighting. This is among the hundreds of thousands total casualties of civilian deaths. […]
Hani Hazaimeh | Published — Monday 15 May 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Jeddah: US President Donald Trump is pondering whether moving the US Embassy in Israel from […]
Posted by Bridie Pearson-Jones in news Picture: BRYAN BEDDER / STRINGER / GETTY Atheists are more intelligent than religious people according to dozens of studies. Miron Zuckerman, Jordan Silberman and Judith A. Hall from the University of Rochester and the Northeastern University conducted a meta-analysis (that’s a statistical analysis that […]
Trump has already ordered greater US support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen, but the deputy crown prince will be primarily bidding for US backing for his confrontation with Iran Patrick Cockburn @indyworld 29 comments US President Donald Trump and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet […]
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 […]
Sheer incompetence and schoolyard nastiness may better explain the botched dismissal David Usborne New York @dusborne Finished with the last meeting of the day in New York, Joe Crowley, the fourth most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, was headed to an intimate fundraiser in a private home on […]
REUTERS NEW YORK A measure to ban child marriage could become law this week in New Jersey, which would become the first of the 50 states in America to outlaw the practice without exception, activists say. Viewed as the strongest such bill to be considered in the United States, it […]