Source: MSN ARABIA Doctors Without Borders (MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres) has suspended its operations in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because detainees are being tortured and denied […]
AFP | Jan 25,2012 | 23:52 JORDAN TIMES CAMP PENDLETON, California — A US soldier accused over the deaths of 24 Iraqis faced a sentence Tuesday of three months at […]
(Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a “dangerous position” by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating […]
Courtesy Washington Post: In a call to her Pakistani counterpart this month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s counterterrorism “red line”: The United States reserved the right […]
Courtesy: Hufington Post: Rachel Havrelock: The phrase “Biblical Israel” often passes on the lips of Republican presidential contenders, representatives of the Netanyahu government, and Israeli settlers. But where exactly is this Israel of the Bible to be found? Not in the Bible itself. The Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as […]
Source RT: Katerina Azarova: A statement made by Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Russian Duma Committee for International Affairs, said that “a military operation against Iran could have grave consequences. And […]
Source: RT.com http://on.rt.com/aev4jx NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over, with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich state are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it. First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will […]
NY Times: ……officials declined to describe the unusual contact between the two governments, and whether there had been an Iranian reply. Senior Obama administration officials have said publicly that Iran […]
Courtesy Russian Television (RT): The cauldron of tension between Iran and the west is simmering. It seems a slightest increase of heat could cause it to boil over into an […]
Source: News24.com Tripoli – Libya has received roughly $20bn in assets that were held overseas by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and frozen during the conflict that ousted him, the foreign minister […]
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment. On a recent morning, the 38-year-old Israeli boarded a bus to a local shopping center in her town. It was the same line she takes regularly, but on this day an ultra-Orthodox passenger directed her to the back of the bus where, she noticed, […]
By Christoph Reuter, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Holger Stark, SPIEGEL-ONLINE After months of secret negotiations, the Taliban are opening a political office in Qatar, a first step toward peace talks […]
Courtesy: Asia Times Online: By Victor Kotsev: In general, sources report an increased rate of transfer of military equipment to American bases around the Middle East in the last few weeks and months. These are very clear preparations for war; yet they need not mean that a strike on Iran is […]
RT: The United States is sponsoring the construction of facilities in Georgia on the threshold of a military conflict in Iran, a member of Georgian opposition movement Public Assembly, Elizbar Javelidze has stated. According to the academician, that explains why President Mikhail Saakashvili is roaming the republic opening new hospitals […]
By LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, ARABNEWS The announcement came from the mayor’s office of New York City (NYC) on Dec. 19, 2011 in the form of an 11-page declaration. It begins: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today announced an […]
Source / Courtesy: RT.com RT: With tensions around the Strait of Hormuz sky-high, Iranian plans to conduct the country’s “greatest naval war games” could coincide with joint US-Israeli exercises in the Persian Gulf. With both sides taking positions, could a real battle be looming? Hopefully the massive exercises will remain […]
BEIRUT: Hezbollah described Friday’s suicide bombing in Damascus as part of a larger U.S. plan to destabilize the country, while Lebanon’s foreign minister said the explosion was the beginning of […]
Washington post: By Thomas Erdbrink and Joby Warrick, Friday, January 6, 9:06 AM TEHRAN — At a time when U.S. officials are increasingly confident that economic and political pressure alone may succeed in curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mood here has turned bleak and belligerent as Iranians prepare grimly for […]
The question remains: are the Americans really leaving Iraq? Or are they leaving from the door to come back in through the window? The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is twice the size of the White House, covering an area of 104 acres. In addition to the mammoth complex, there are […]