‘We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,’ former Iraqi ruler told CIA Will Worley The US “got it wrong” about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically […]
Source: THE DAILY SABAH The Eurasia Tunnel, one of Turkey’s most visionary mega projects, which will allow automobiles to pass beneath Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait, opens Tuesday on Dec 20, 2016, […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The bus driver was supposed to show up at 7:30am on Sunday to pick up a group of tourists from Amman to Karak. He was late because of a technical problem, which made the tourists a little upset. […]
Reuters International DEC 19, 2016 – A woman sits with her child reading the Koran while waiting to be evacuated with others from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) By Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Armed men burned five […]
All civilians trapped in old castle freed — Momani By Rana Husseini – Dec 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ambulances are seen in front of the Italian Hospital in Karak, where some of the injured in a terror attack were evacuated on Sunday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Four terrorists […]
Source: Pew Research Center Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious […]
Source: Pew Research Center 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not BY MICHAEL BARTHEL, AMY MITCHELL AND JESSE HOLCOMB In the wake of […]
Source: BBC Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts […]
Source: RT A number of Islamic religious groups from the Gulf States are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments, Suddeutsche Zeitung paper […]
Source: TRT World The religious group identifies as Muslim but has been targeted for years because of beliefs which conflict with the more orthodox sects. Earlier this week, a mob […]
Source: RNS By Ben Williamson (USA Today) At this time of year, we often see animals subjected to cruel holiday stunts or treated as living props in our confusing pageantry. […]
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Dr. Christina Puchalski is familiar with death. The palliative care doctor and founder of the George Washington Institute for […]
By GEETA ANANDDEC. 17, 2016, NYTimes.com MUMBAI, India — In India, where corruption is a fact of life, the Tata Group — a powerhouse conglomerate that makes Land Rovers, operates the historic Pierre Hotel in New York and sells the world Tetley tea — has been held up as the exception to the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Christian Easter story mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in this article. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Allah created mankind and took it upon Himself to guide them, as He says in the Qur’an, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The more we know and learn about John the Baptist, more apparent it becomes that Pauline dogma […]
Source: The Local “What is happening there amounts to what is the worst in the world,” said Mahmoud Almizeh, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee who comes from Raqa, now the bastion of the Islamic State jihadist group. Germany has opened its doors to some 600,000 Syrian refugees since the conflict began […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Shah Faesal, who is a Kashmiri civil servant and writer. He tweets @ShahFaesal_IAS Last Friday, Maulvi Sahab again said that God’s wrath is soon going […]
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises as Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government take cover during a battle with Daesh militants in Sirte on October 2 (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Daesh terror […]
Reuters International DEC 16, 2016 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Andrew Osborn and Nick Tattersall MOSCOW/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said he and his Turkish […]