Trump promises Syria pullout, but sets no end date
By AFP – Apr 05,2018 – JORDAN TIMES US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on April 3, in […]
‘How I joined the jihadis by mistake’
Source: BBC More than 300 people from Kosovo went to join Islamists fighting “holy war” in Syria and Iraq – per capita the highest number in Europe. But not all […]
‘Russian pilot killed after Syria rebels down plane’
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache-security source
Reuters International AUGUST 18, 2017 www.swissinfo.ch BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese army found a surface-to-air missile (SAM) in a weapons cache left by Nusra Front militants after it took over some of the jihadists’ positions in northeast Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Friday. The cache also […]
‘Jordan cannot tolerate sectarian militias across north border’
By Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Aug 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The security of Jordan’s borders with Syria is not only a Jordanian concern, but there are other […]
Woe betide the Kurds of northern Syria when the war is over
One Syrian told me, ‘These Kurdish groups are liars. We gave them weapons to fight the terrorists – now we no longer give them weapons to protect themselves. We did not give them weapons so that they could make states. Now they are fully supplied by the Americans’ Robert Fisk […]
This is what Theresa May refused to tell you in her schoolyard sermon on terror
The Prime Minister is going to have her ‘embarrassing conversations’ with Britain’s Muslims, who have no power to switch off the evil ideology which Wahhabism represents. She does have that power – but she won’t use it Robert Fisk @indyvoices Was that really the best Theresa May could do? It was the same old tosh about “values” and […]
Tanks, suicide bombs and bayonets: On the front line in the battles around Damascus
Endgames: inside Syria and Iraq In the first in a series of exclusive dispatches from the crucible of war, Robert Fisk reports from Syria’s capital, where regime soldiers are fighting hand to hand with opposition fighters Robert Fisk Damascus @indyvoices Opposition forces members clash with Assad regime forces in Jobar and […]
Keeping Iran a bogeyman to further destabilise the region
Feb 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen During his presidential election campaign, Donald Trump proclaimed long and loudly that he sees Iran as Washington’s regional enemy. He pledged to “tear up” the agreement providing for the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, reached in […]
Syria Will Stain Obama’s Legacy Forever
The arc of history is long, but it won’t ever judge the president’s Syria policy kindly. BY DAVID GREENBERG DECEMBER 29, 2016 Barack Obama’s impending departure from the White House has put many Americans in an elegiac mood. Despite an average approval rating of only 48 percent — the lowest, […]
Ending Religious Violence in the Middle East
MOHA ENNAJI Moha Ennaji is President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies in Morocco and Professor of Cultural Studies at Fez University. His most recent books include New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe and Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. FEZ […]
There’s more propaganda than news coming out of Aleppo this week
There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as the jihadis took over these brave people were forced to flee abroad, fell silent or were dead Patrick Cockburn @indyworld It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign […]
There is more than one truth to tell in the awful story of Aleppo
Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money Robert Fisk @indyvoices Western politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s army has […]
US SECRET SERVICE UNCOVERS: THE WEST WANTED AN ISLAMIC TERROR STATE
Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer. SOURCE: http://juergentodenhoefer.de/us-secret-service-uncovers-the-west-wanted-an-islamic-terror-state/?lang=en#more-8152 Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria“ […]
A slap Congress is beginning to regret
LINDA HEARD | Published — Monday 3 October 2016 Saudi Arabia’s response to legislation permitting the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Kingdom for compensation, which US President Barack Obama has characterized as setting a “dangerous precedent”, has been diplomatically low-key. “The erosion of sovereign immunity will have a […]
SERIOUSLY? Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos
Source: The Daily Beast A controversial foreign PR firm known for representing unsavory characters was paid millions by the Pentagon to create fake terrorist videos. THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM […]
The US has ‘no plan B’ in Syria to stop Russia operating without accountability, experts warn
US Secretary of State defends diplomatic efforts as Aleppo burns under a ferocious Russian-backed attack by the Syrian regime Bethan McKernan Beirut The US has been boxed into a corner in the face of a huge Russian-backed military escalation in the Syrian civil war, several experts have said. US Secretary […]
Many early warning signs signalled current Arab disarray
Aug 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Never in modern history has the Arab world experienced such a wide range of jarring political developments as it does today, including fragmenting states, refugee flows, a terrorism export industry and long-running devastating wars. These conditions did not suddenly emerge overnight. […]
How war drives terrorism
Editors’ Note: Terrorist groups don’t emerge out of nowhere, and wars are perhaps the richest soil for seeding and growing violent groups of all stripes, writes Dan Byman. This post originally appeared in the Washington Post. Study after study has found no common profile of a terrorist. It is […]
The charges against British officials have been dropped – but questions still remain about Libya
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said that there is “insufficient evidence” to bring charges against British officials in the case of Abdelhakim Belhaj Kim Sengupta “They knew I was being tortured, I have no doubt of that,” said Abdelhakim Belhaj of MI6 agents who came to interrogate him while […]