The U.S. Army is considering a wardrobe change. Five camouflage design teams have been chosen to move onto the next stage of the Army’s selection and testing process of Phase IV Camouflage Improvement Effort. The designers have to prove that their patterns of desert, woodland, and transitional camouflage stand up to scientific […]
Russian TV: US President Obama will meet with both the America-Israel Political Action Committee and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this week; with Jerusalem and Washington at odds over Iran, however, […]
AMMAN — Jordan Times. Reuters. Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday as President Bashar Al Assad’s government announced that voters had overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in […]
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah says that “unnamed hands” targeting Islam and the Arabs are behind recent events in the region. The king, who delivered a televised address Friday night […]
A publication from The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, Amman, Jordan. This text explains what jihad is, what it means to Muslims, and how it relates to the concrete issues of war and peace. It explores the most important issues surrounding the Islamic law of war and peace, and lays […]
By ARWA RIKABI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees hosted a round-table discussion on Tuesday about the comparative study written on behalf of the UNHCR […]
Dawn: Murtaza Haider: Pakistanis are fast becoming a wasted nation. The alarmingly high level of malnutrition observed in Pakistan in the past few years is far worse than what has […]
Businessinsider.com: The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. – John Kenneth Galbraith The western embargo against Iran’s oil seems to be running into a […]
During World War II, the nation’s top scientists convened at a classified laboratory in the remote town of Los Alamos, New Mexico to develop the first nuclear weapons. Although many details of the Manhattan Project remain secret, The Los Alamos National Laboratory has compiled rare footage of life in Los Alamos […]
Russian TV: The US spy chief has told the Congress President Bashar Al-Assad is fighting against Al-Qaeda of Iraq. James Clapper is the first top US official to acknowledge US […]
By Ayman Samir , Edmund Blair DAILY STAR LEBANON CAIRO: After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab League members might arm his opponents. The message was […]
By OSAMA AL SHARIF US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicts that Israel will direct a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities “in April, May or June,” according to David Ignatius, the widely-circulated Washington Post columnist. In the view of many Western analysts, Israel has taken the decision to bomb Iran […]
By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS Published: Feb 12, 2012 AS THE Syrian opposition abandons non-violent protest for armed resistance, many people think this means that President Bashar Assad and his Baathist regime are in even deeper trouble than before. On the contrary, it means that Assad and the Baathists are winning. […]
Washington Post: BEIRUT — Fears of an as-yet-undefined Middle Eastern war are darkening the horizons of a region that only a year ago was celebrating the fall of dictators, the ascent […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Well, reviewing events in Syria this week, I guess the unipolar world, the looming American century, and the end of history that were simultaneously announced by assorted American chauvinists and crackpots at the end of the Cold War around 1990 can be […]
Reuters: The United States is seeking more access to Philippines ports and airfields to re-fuel and service its warships and planes, diplomatic and military sources said on Thursday, expanding its presence at a time of tension with China in the South China Sea. But it is not trying to reopen military bases […]
Russian TV: On Wednesday the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi declared that Iran has the capabilities to carry out military strikes on US interests around the globe. This […]
NY Times: THE public debate in America and Israel these days is focused obsessively on whether to attack Iran in order to halt its nuclear weapons ambitions; hardly any attention is being paid to how events in Syria could result in a strategic debacle for the Iranian government. Iran’s foothold […]
Source: 90.9 wbur. Associated Press. An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District […]
By Samuel Olara Gaddafi’s death raises questions for the ICC over the brutal disregard for the rule of law by his executioners Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Libyan […]