Published on 10:51 December 13, 2015 These women are following in the footsteps of Syria’s other main female forces battling Daesh nextprevExpand next Syriac Christian women members of the battalion called the ‘Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers’ fighting the Daesh, take part in a training […]
Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES. The pictures have been added by the Muslim Times By John V. Whitbeck, who is an international lawyer who writes frequently on the Middle East […]
Voices Watching our Parliament’s grotesque debate on Syrian airstrikes last week (which had more to do with the destruction of Corbyn than the destruction of Isis), I do wonder what the future holds for Britain Robert Fisk @indyvoices Writer and researcher on radicalism and extremism, Montasser-al-De’emeh Getty Now that we’re all supposedly […]
Tribune: BERLIN: German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday said Saudi Arabia must stop financing fundamentalist mosques abroad which are accused of breeding extremism. “From Saudi Arabia, Wahhabi mosques are financed throughout the world,” said Gabriel. #SueMeSaudi goes viral after Saudi govt threatens to sue anyone comparing them to ISIS “In […]
Veteran politician blasts Western policy in the Middle East and warns air strikes risk worsening Syria crisis. Kate Mayberry | 04 Dec 2015 Source: Al Jazeera Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir […]
Voices Is David Cameron planning to include al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra in his group of ‘70,000 moderates?’ If he was, Nusra men are likely to prove very expensive ‘ground troops’ for the RAF and its two Tornados if they bomb Syria Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 14 comments The former wife […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]
Businessinsider.com: A year after his 700-page opus“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” stormed to the top of America’s best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circles. The new […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The scene is horrifyingly familiar. Islamic State soldiers march a line of prisoners to a riverbank, shoot them one by one and dump their bodies over a […]
Voices David Cameron, there aren’t 70,000 moderate fighters in Syria – and whoever heard of a moderate with a Kalashnikov, anyway? The Blairite Labour MPs are going to vote with Dave because they loathe Corbyn more than Isis Robert Fisk @indyvoice 36 comments Londoners protest against bombing Syria Getty […]
Source: Pew Research Center Recent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have once again brought terrorism and Islamic extremism to […]
The Independent: Any military success in Syria will unravel because of new territory Britain is helping to create for Isis who have taken advantage of the instability and wide-spread civilian destruction caused by months of a Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen, according to senior Foreign Office lawyers and former diplomats. In […]
Source: BBC Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin not to “play with fire” over his country’s downing of a Russian jet. Mr Erdogan also said […]
Nov 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Throughout many private and public encounters across the United States in the past two months, I have repeatedly heard Americans ask whether they are doing the right thing in their current policy to counter Daesh, and whether they should be […]
Nov 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH The carnage that took place a fortnight ago in Paris, admittedly by Daesh, has backfired, hurting Arabs and Muslims everywhere, especially in Africa, Europe and the United States. If nothing else, it has degraded Arabs and Muslims everywhere, igniting racism and […]
Source: Reuters Khalid Ben Larbi lived a hedonistic lifestyle similar to other European youths and rarely went to the mosque in Molenbeek, the mainly Muslim Moroccan immigrant area where he […]
How we respond to recent attacks will shape our future for generations to come By Umar Nasser PUBLISHED23/11/2015 Retribution bombing may well destroy ISIL, but that victory will only last as long as the short time it will take for the next extremist outfit to organise itself, writes Umar Nasser […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Editorial The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish warplanes along the Syrian-Turkish border on Tuesday shows how fragile peace and security in the region are. Ankara said that the Russian SU-24 had crossed into Turkish airspace many times and had been warned […]
Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Photos of Paris street memorials for the 132 people killed by Daesh on November 13 show flowers, pictures of victims, drawings, and, even, a bottle of red wine. The refrain adopted by mourning Parisians is: “They want to destroy our way of […]
By Reuters – Nov 25,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Turkish army truck loaded with a tank heading to the Syrian border near Yayladagi, Turkey, Wednesday (AP photo) ISTANBUL/NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and pledged its […]