The Syrian army’s local base in Aleppo is now a joint Syrian-Russian military headquarters, festooned with Syrian and Russian flags, its soldiery mixing together, Russian personnel sharing their own intelligence […]
By Reuters – Mar 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people shelter from the rain on the street near the city of Mosul, Iraq, on March 23 (Reuters photo) MOSUL — Iraqi special forces and police fought the Daesh terror group militants to edge closer to Al Nuri […]
Mar 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen According to the UN, some 300,000 to 400,000 Iraqi civilians remain trapped in the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul. Caught in the crossfire between Daesh defenders and Iraqi government attackers, trapped families lack food, water and medical supplies. Hundreds have been killed and […]
Endgames: inside Syria Robert Fisk reports from the front line in Aleppo province where, for 40 miles, not a house, stable or even fence remains standing Robert Fisk Tader, eastern Aleppo @indyvoices A Syrian soldier demonstrates how the crucifixion stand erected and used by Isis works photography by George Ourfalian You can’t […]
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Mar 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi civilians flee the city of Mosul as Iraqi forces advance in their massive operation to retake Iraq’s second city from Daesh extremists on Wednesday (AFP photo) LONDON — Terrified Iraqi families fleeing fierce fighting in Mosul are drugging […]
Reuters International MAR 22, 2017 – Smoke rises during clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq March 19, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from 68 countries meet in Washington on Wednesday to agree on the next steps to defeat Islamic State, the […]
At one time the caliphate ruled territory with a population of five or six million people, where it sought to establish a truly Islamic State. It is this dream – or nightmare – that is now being shattered. But the groups who fought Isis may soon be fighting each other Patrick […]
Reuters International FEB 28, 2017 – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman attends a Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su (reuters_tickers) JAKARTA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is expected to sign 10 agreements during his visit to Indonesia, with a focus on combating […]
While US Defence Secretary James Mattis heads to Baghdad to appease Iraqis, Donald Trump merely wants his ‘war news story’, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices “The re-conquest of western Mosul begins.” Or so several headlines in the Arab press have announced. And it’s true that the Iraqi […]
Modern Greece and its crises were shaped by the legacy of a violent conflict in the post-war years – an atrocity long forgotten as the fight to stabilise the Middle East distracts our leaders Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 2 February 2017 184 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheIndependentOnline%2F&width=450&layout=button&action=like&size=large&show_faces=false&share=false&height=35&appId=235586169789578 Click to follow The Independent Online Golden Dawn supporters […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 31 January 2017 This file photo taken on December 13, 2016 shows fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces siting on a heavily armed vehicle near the village of Khirbet al-Jahshe, on the western outskirts of Raqa as they […]
Reuters International JAN 29, 2017 – 01:51 A displaced Iraqi boy holds a white flag as his family flees during the battle between Iraqi rapid response forces and Islamic State militants at Tigris river frontline between east and west of Mosul , Iraq, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (reuters_tickers) By […]
Reuters International JAN 27, 2017 – 10:38 JAKARTA (Reuters) – A former Indonesian finance ministry official has been detained on his return home after being deported from Turkey for trying to cross into Syria on suspicion of intending to join Islamic State, Indonesian authorities said on Friday. Police identified the […]
Compared to the platitudinous, snide, divisive, war-mongering rant the world received from Trump, George W Bush was a visionary Robert Fisk @indyvoices A bad day for Muslims, I’d call it. The only mention they got in the inaugural tweet was pure Hollywood, and very dangerous. “Radical Islamic terrorism we will […]
By AFP – Jan 09,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Syrian men visit Al Malik Al Zahir Hammam in the capital Damascus on January 7 as an ongoing water crisis continues due to the fighting between government forces and rebel fighters (AFP photo) DAMASCUS — Anwar Al Ades has not bathed […]
By AFP – Jan 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced people flee during a battle with Daesh militants in Al Zuhoor neighbourhood of Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday (Reuters photo) ERBIL — Iraqi forces battling extremists in Mosul reached the Tigris River that divides the city Sunday, a key step […]
Jan 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Daesh shifted technically and tactically its method of carrying out terrorist operations in Istanbul; moreover, the assailant attacked at a vital time, New Year’s Eve celebrations, in spite of the warnings and the security measures that had been taken to face such […]
Jan 04,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen] The Daesh-claimed attack on the upmarket nightclub in Istanbul must be counted as a “blowback” to policies adopted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Having been ready to use takfiris as tools to advance his policies, his government is now regarded as “apostate” […]
If a democratically-elected dictator wants to act as a conduit in a neighbour’s civil war, what does he expect but massacres in his own major cities? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 2 January 2017 Turkey is alone. First, we’ll take a look at the racist reasons for this. If 39 men and […]
01/02/2017 Ahmet S Yayla Professor & Deputy Director International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) Anne Speckhard Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry – Georgetown University ISIS attacked again in Turkey, this time on New Year’s Eve in the […]