By LOLITA C. BALDOR15 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — New intelligence assessments show that the number of Islamic State group fighters has dropped in Iraq and Syria but is rising in Libya, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday. According to the official, reports suggest there are 19,000 to 25,000 […]
US defence chief says increased activity by other countries would make it easier for the US to accelerate its fight against Daesh Image Credit: AFP US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Published: 10:08 February 5, 2016 Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter welcomed on Thursday a Saudi […]
Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Germany’s chief diplomat Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Tehran on Wednesday that terrorism poses a serious threat to all countries especially […]
Tehran Times Social Desk TEHRAN — TripAdvisor has released its list of the top 25 bed and breakfast and inns in the Middle East, placing Iranian House, Saraye Ameriha Boutique Hotel, and Manouchehri House in the city of Kashan as among the winners of the Travelers’ Choice award in 2016. TripAdvisor […]
Reuters International FEB 5, 2016 – 08:39 By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid a rape investigation, was detained arbitrarily in contravention of international law, a U.N. panel will rule on Friday. Assange, […]
WESTERN RULES http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41927898 EMBED CODE FEB 3, 2016 – 11:00 It’s carnival season in Lucerne. The sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve have prompted the Lucerne officials to produce a leaflet informing asylum seekers about western behavioural norms. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The Hirschpark asylum centre in Lucerne is keen on […]
By JT – Feb 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jerusalem Awqaf Department Director Azzam Khatib Tamimi has condemned Israel’s violations against the Umayyad Palaces area to the south and southwest of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Thursday. In a letter […]
Feb 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura declared a “pause” in the tortuous UN-mediated talks to end the war in Syria, postponing them for February 25. While acknowledging that after the first week of preparatory talks “there is more work to be done, not only […]
Feb 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH Barely were Western sanctions lifted from Iran, after it signed a nuclear deal with key Western powers, than its president, Hassan Rouhani, went shopping in Europe, namely in Italy and France, where he received red carpet treatment. This forward-looking approach should […]
Feb 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI My affection and respect for my good friend and colleague from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with whom I discussed current events in the Middle East over a leisurely Lebanese lunch last week was matched by our very different analyses of […]
Epigraph: Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — French secularism, or laïcité, treats religion as a dirty little secret, and manifests itself as a restriction of public prayer or the open expression of religious identity A policeman stands guard as a digger destroys a church at a migrant camp in Calais on 1 […]
Huff Post: by Shane Ferro — A man is suing Yahoo for gender discrimination — and his claim might not be as absurd as it sounds. Discriminating against men just because they’re male is as illegal as discrimination against women for being female. That’s not this lawsuit’s only point: it also […]
Lauren Booth, somewhat of a famous convert to Islam, underplays Islam’s dangerous and increasing presence in the UK as well as Islamification generally during an interview with George Galloway.
Source: BBC Billions of dollars have been pledged to help ease the plight of Syrians affected by the five-year conflict. At a donors’ conference in London, dozens of countries committed to help reach the target of $9bn (£6.2bn). The EU pledged $3.3bn (€3bn; £2.3bn). UK Prime Minister David Cameron told […]
Source: Time Human rights groups say country’s state of emergency is being abused by police and officials The national state of emergency in France declared hours after ten gunmen killed 130 people in Paris has led to thousands of warrantless house searches and hundreds of curfew orders, wreaking havoc on […]
Source: First post New Delhi: Even as the debate over access to women in the inner sanctum of Haji Ali Dargah rages, several members of the Muslim community have started questioning the practice of disallowing women in graves and graveyards. “No religious scripture bars women from visiting graves. Prophet Muhammad […]
Source: BBC This week the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority okayed a proposal to modify human embryos through gene editing. The research, which will be carried out at the […]
Source: BBC A UN panel will conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being “arbitrarily detained” in the UK, the Swedish foreign ministry has said. Mr Assange, 44, claimed asylum in London’s Ecuadorean embassy in 2012. He wants to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape claim, which he denies. The […]
Source: The Guardian A primary school headteacher has been mocked on Twitter after claiming that evolution was “a theory” and there was “more evidence that the Bible is true”. Christina […]