‘The Tumultuous Decade’
May 18,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY On May 20, the Middle East Institute will release my new book “The Tumultuous Decade,” a book that brings together a […]
Syria war enters complicated, confusing phase
Apr 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The war in Syria has entered a new, complicated and confusing phase. Having gradually won back territory seized by insurgents of different […]
In the rubble, Aleppo’s citizens work to save battered heritage
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – A street vendor sells coffee outside Aleppo’s ancient citadel, as posters depicting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are seen in the background, in Syria February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki (reuters_tickers) By Angus McDowall ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – In the rubble-strewn square outside Aleppo’s ancient […]
Exclusive – Seized documents reveal Islamic State’s Department of ‘War Spoils’
Reuters International DEC 28, 2015 – swissinfo.ch By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic State has set up departments to handle “war spoils,” including slaves, and the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, creating the trappings of government that enable it to manage large […]
What awaits Syria?
Dec 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI No amount of Vienna meetings or Geneva communiqués can stop the war in Syria unless the root causes of the conflict are addressed. A new round of negotiations took place in New York this week, but it did not tackle the conundrum of […]
British Muslims oppose airstrikes in Syria – and here’s why
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi If military action were enough to destroy Isis, Sunni and Shia communities would support it. But there is no shortage of concerns – or alternatives On the fateful night when MPs voted to extend airstrikes over Syria, Shabana Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham […]
Sobriety can save the day
Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The shooting of a Russian warplane by Turkey galvanised public opinion attention in our region. Some financial analysts compared it to the events, 100 years ago, of the summer of 1914, when Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the city […]
Kremlin says Putin ‘fully mobilized’ to tackle threat from Turkey
By Andrew Osborn and Polina Devitt1 hour ago . View photo A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia’s Defence Ministry November 26, 2015, shows Russian … http://l.yimg.com/rq/darla/2-8-9/html/r-sf.html By Andrew Osborn and Polina Devitt MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is fully mobilized to tackle what the Kremlin regards […]
Russia’s great power game
OPINION Russia’s great power game It may be a dream for Putin to join a concert of powers in stabilising the Middle East, but it’s a forgivable one. 17 Nov 2015 After the Napoleonic wars, the so-called Congress of Vienna in 1815 brought together allies and enemies to create a […]
Syrian refugees in Brazil
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh Published — Sunday 18 October 2015 ARABNEWS.COM IT isn’t a very well-known fact but Brazil has been taking in Syrian refugees since 2013 when the Brazilian government decided to issue them special visas that gave them refugee status in the country. In September, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced […]
Which superpower will win the battle of hypocrisy? The 125,000 civilian casualties of the two Chechen wars elicited far less passion in the West than the fatalities in Syria
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Strange, isn’t it, how every time we have a “crisis” in the Middle East, the Russians step in to take advantage of it? Or so it looks. No sooner have we identified Isis/the Islamic Caliphate/Daesh as the most apocalyptic, end-of-the-world antagonist since Hitler/Napoleon/Nero/Genghis Khan, than […]
Kobani in ruins after Kurds drive out IS
AFP | Jan 28, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES KOBANI, Syria — Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobani has left the Syrian […]
The Widow of a Paris Terrorist and Other Real Wives of Islamic State
Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast Jamie Dettmer 01.14.15 The Widow of a Paris Terrorist and Other Real Wives of Islamic State The high-profile spouses of […]
Foreigners fighting the ‘Islamic State’ in Syria: who and why?
Foreigners fighting Islamic State in Syria: who and why? Reuters By Benedetta Argentieri DERIK, Syria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While illegally crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border, Canadian Peter Douglas was adamant that his incursion was for humanitarian reasons – to help the people of Syria. Douglas is one of a growing […]
Syria Peace Talks In Geneva Postponed
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top Syria envoy says diplomats have failed to agree on a date for a new Syria peace conference this year. Lakhdar Brahimi said at a news conference in Geneva that diplomats “are still striving to see if we can have the conference before the end […]
Cut Off: Starving Syrians Hope to Live Through Winter
By Christoph Reuter SpiegelOnline As the world focuses on Syria’s chemical disarmament, thousands of people in the country face a more pressing concern: starvation. Cut off by ongoing violence, they […]
In the Muslim World, Genius of Christianity
by Joop Koopman Media & communications consultant Maronite Bishop Elias Sleman heads the Eparchy of Latakia in the north of Syria, a region that so far has been spared the violence of the country’s civil war, which may come as a surprise to many in the West who imagine the […]
Church leaders eye Syria summit with Muslims
AFP, Geneva Christian leaders from Syria and beyond are planning a summit involving Muslim representatives in a drive to use faith to spur peace efforts, the World Council of Churches […]
Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack in Syria
August 31, 2013 Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Abaneh http://original.antiwar.com/Dale-Gavlak/2013/08/30/syrians-in-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-behind-chemical-attack/. GHOUTA, Syria – As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit. Interviews with people […]
80 bodies of Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists brought from Syria for burial
SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency) – Eighty bodies of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists have been brought from Syria to Pakistan. Shiite News has learnt reliably that the bodies of Sipah-e-Sahaba’s terrorists are being brought to Pakistan from Syria. Hundreds of bodies have been brought so far. Latest reports said that around […]