Turkey warns US of blowback from arming Kurdish fighters in Syria
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 […]
Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey may not be a cover-up – but it is a complete political disaster
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 […]
New Jersey may become first US state to outlaw child marriage
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 […]
A history of American lynchings
A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories. [Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera] by Ruth Hopkins Alabama, United States – It’s a […]
US sends new military convoy to support YPG after Turkish airstrikes
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 […]
Donald Trump hasn’t quite thought through his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican
Jerusalem will be a great gig because Trump will be able to ask Netanyahu for help against Isis without – presumably – realising that Israel bombs only the Syrian army […]
U.S. State Dept. seeks tougher visa scrutiny, including social media checks
Reuters International MAY 4, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: International travellers arrive at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, U.S. February 4, 2017. REUTERS/Laura Buckman (reuters_tickers) By Yeganeh Torbati and […]
Trump to wade into Middle East politics on first foreign trip
Reuters International MAY 4, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence attend a National Day of Prayer event at the Rose Garden of the White House […]
U.S. Senators Held A Hearing About Religious Hate Crimes, And Not One Muslim Was Included
We can’t tackle Islamophobia without Muslims. By Rowaida Abdelaziz, Social Media Editor, HuffPost The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to address the rise in hate crimes against minorities, […]
Preemptive hate and the Arab-American relationship
Dr. Amal Mudallali | Published — Wednesday 3 May 2017 Upon reviewing the results of the Arab News/YouGov poll “The Arab Image in the US” in which 2,057 US citizens were surveyed, I recalled something that happened to me when I was a student taking a public transportation bus to […]
Will Abbas’ efforts pay off?
May 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Politics is defined as the art of the possible. And in the case of the Palestinian president’s political activities, he tries to maximise […]
Woman found guilty and faces year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions
She laughed at the idea that Sessions treats all Americans equally Clark Mindock New York 0:00 / 0:45 The woman was arrested after laughing during the hearing SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/jeff-sessions-woman-guilty-laughing-year-jail-sentence-code-pink-protester-a7716456.html
Muslims on Capitol Hill learn how to lobby
By Aysha Khan and Lauren Markoe Al-Sharif Nassef, far right, a participant in the third annual Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, takes an elevator to an appointment on May […]
US military ending role in hunt for elusive African warlord Joseph Kony
By Ryan Browne, CNN Updated 1810 GMT (0210 HKT) May 2, 2017 Story highlights The number of fighters in Kony’s forces have dropped from nearly 2,000 to under 100 Outside […]
TIME TRAVEL IS MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE WITH NEW MIND-BOGGLING MODEL
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 5/2/17 What Are Gravitational Waves? Updated | Many have dreamed of figuring out how to travel in time—and dismissed it as impossible. Now, researchers have proposed a mathematical model that makes time travel possible, using concepts of Einstein’s theory of general relativity coupled with the hypothesis that […]
Islam needs Islamophobia right now
BY Omar Mahmood, April 21, 2017 In Pakistan, a mob killed a journalism student because he didn’t believe. That could have been me. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/21/apostate-pakistan-lynched-islamophobia-blasphemy-column/100708734/#sthash.tSsNfeVU.dpuf (Photo: Abdul Majeed, AFP/Getty Images) 18477CONNECTTWEET 7LINKEDIN 101COMMENTEMAILMORE Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University […]
FBI agent married Daesh terrorist she was assigned to investigate, CNN says in report
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Daesh militant Cuspert (L) and Greene Daniela Greene, a translator working for the U.S. domestic security agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), married a Daesh terrorist […]
Poll: 81% of Americans cannot identify Arab world on map
Ben Flanagan | Published — Tuesday 2 May 2017 DUBAI: Most Americans have scant knowledge of the Arab world, with eight in 10 unable to point out the region on a map, a wide-ranging Arab News/YouGov poll has found. The survey of 2,057 people in the US revealed an alarmingly […]
This is how Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump could start World War III
In the whole of human history there has never been a bigger powder keg. Nor men so strange playing with a box of matches near to it Sean O’Grady 62 […]
Why American calls to escalate militarily against Iran are dangerous
Adam Weinstein Thursday 27 April 2017 Proponents of Iranian regime change in Washington should look carefully at America’s intervention track record over past 20 years Don’t be fooled, there will be no US-imposed regime change in Iran without a bloody, drawn out and costly war. Washington’s peddlers of regime change […]