Islamic art exhibit underway at U.S. museum TEHRAN Times Art Desk TEHRAN – The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is displaying works of Islamic art in an exhibition, which opened on February 26. The artworks are from India under the Moguls in the 16th century, Iran during the reign […]
Himalayan lakes, spacewalks and the presidential primaries helped Scott Kelly keep his wits over 340 days in space, the astronaut told reporters on Friday, days after he landed back on Earth from a record-setting mission. http://www.theguardian.com Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly speaks during a press conference on Friday in Houston. Kelly […]
Reuters International MAR 5, 2016 – 09:16 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a late phone conversation on Friday called for a prompt start to the next round of Syria peace talks, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The […]
Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – ELIZABETH DREW Being Hillary Clinton, one of the most celebrated women in the world, holder of some of the highest offices in American politics and possibly the next president of the United States, has had more than its share of agony. Widely regarded a […]
Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI US President Barack Obama signed this week a law that opposes boycotting Israel. During the signing ceremony, he referred to the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, but named them as “Israeli-controlled territories”. The Israeli government has exerted relentless efforts […]
By AFP – Feb 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A woman carries goods she allegedly looted in Shadadi town, Hasaka countryside, Syria, on Friday (Reuters photo by Rodi Said) DAMASCUS — Fighting subsided across much of Syria on Saturday as the first major ceasefire of the devastating, five-year war […]
https://twitter.com/GMA The work of Virk: Predicting the real Oscars and the ESPN version By Emily Pfeffer 2 days ago Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter <!– –> Since 2013, College Football analyst and Baseball Tonight studio host Adnan Virk is a known movie buff. He has shared his yearly Oscar […]
Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh As expected, the current front runners in the American presidential elections, much as the leaders in the Middle East, are missing the boat as they voice their mediocre views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that started in 1948 when the British mandate ended. […]
Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President Barack Obama lauded the strategic alliance between Jordan and the US and praised His Majesty King Abdullah’s and Jordan’s constructive role in various regional files in statements to the media at the White House, following the two leaders’ summit on Wednesday. The […]
By JT – Feb 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah meets with representatives of American Jewish organisations in Washington on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday met with representatives of several leading American Jewish organisations over ways to […]
By Maryam Qarehgozlou TEHRAN — Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Clarence Reams), the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C., believes that the policy that the new rulers in the Saudi kingdom has adopted is “suicidal”. “Saudi Arabia has built a road to its own destruction,” Alim Musa, an African-American Muslim […]
Reuters International FEB 24, 2016 – 13:18 PARIS (Reuters) – French special forces and intelligence commandos are engaged in covert operations against Islamic State militants in Libya in conjunction with the United States and Britain, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Wednesday. It said President Francois Hollande had authorised […]
In this April 11, 2007 file photo, Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italiancity and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, talks on his mobile phone as he walks in […]
© REUTERS/ SANA MIDDLE EAST 12:40 22.02.2016 More than 80 nations, particularly Turkey and Saudi Arabia, have provided financial, logistical and material assistance to terrorist groups, who are fighting in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. The Syrian leader described foreign sponsorship as “active” and “unlimited.” Some […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Feb 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah greets US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of their meeting in Aqaba, on Sunday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — The US has finalised a law that will allow the administration to increase military […]
AFP The siege of Aleppo is a humanitarian catastrophe on a dramatic scale — and a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has seized on the Syrian civil war to expose an impotent West and show his own geopolitical muscle. By SPIEGEL Staff Aleppo has been a horrific place […]
Militants of the Daesh group. (AP) REUTERS Published — Thursday 18 February 2016 BEIRUT: At least 38 people were killed in air strikes carried out by a US-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria in the past two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on […]
Feb 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Joshua Kurlantzick Next week, at a summit in California, US President Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of the 10 countries of Asia’s most important regional grouping: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The event, the first-ever US-ASEAN summit on American soil, is being […]
Feb 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The US has had a long history of overthrowing regimes it does not like. Among the most dramatic examples are Mexico in 1910, Guatemala in 1954, the failed 1961 attempt in Cuba, Chile in 1973, Nicaragua in the 1980s and Panama in […]
‘A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian’, he said Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe AFP/Getty Pope Francis has declared that presidential candidate Donald Trump is not a Christian because of strident views on immigration and his desire to […]