One of the craziest meetings I ever attended ! – Fallujah Reconstruction
Editor’s note: Please tell us if you have attended a crazier one ? ! As the readers of The Muslim Times will have noticed, I was working for The […]
2016, the year the Daesh ‘caliphate’ buckled
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 […]
Fallujah, the ‘resistance’ city, is liberated yet again – for the fourth time in a decade
As history tells us, there are reasons to be cautious about the claims that the Iraqi city of Fallujah is freed from Isis control Robert Fisk @indyvoices There’s a truism […]
The battle for iconic Fallujah
May 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Fallujah was a centre of the Iraqi uprising against British occupation in 1920, the first city in Iraq to revolt against the US occupation in 2003 and the first Iraqi city to submit to Daesh rule in 2014. Consequently, Fallujah cannot be […]
Brutal sectarian warfare has returned to Iraq
STORY SUMMARY by David Ignatius Iraq appears to be slipping back into civil war, and Sheikh Zaydan al-Jabiri, one of the political leaders of the Sunni insurgent group known as the Tribal Revolutionaries, seems confident that his side is winning. Make no mistake: Brutal sectarian war has come again to […]