List of Articles

 

• Causes and Consequences of Arresting Istanbul's Mayor
• Turkey in Crisis: The Arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu and Its Far-Reaching Consequences
• Media Review: UK Media and the Gaza Genocide--Legal Implications of Editorial Complicity
• Beijing Hosts Trilateral Meeting Between Iran, Russia, and China: Call for Ending Sanctions and Diplomatic Resolution of Nuclear Issue
• Syria Reaches Agreement to Integrate SDF into State Institutions
• The Escalation of Violence in Syria: A Path to Deepen Syria's fragmentation
• Daraa the epicenter of 2011 protest movement against Asad government just started an uprising against the HTS-led regime in Syria
• Malcolm X's family demands Trump declassify his assassination files
• Qatari Emir, in Tehran, met Iranian officials: Importance of dialogue to resolve regional conflicts maintain regional stability
• Trump's views on the war in Ukraine posted on social media while Zelenskyy cancels visit to Saudi Arabia; Putin wants to restore trust
• Macron criticizes Trump plan: 2 million Palestinians cannot be asked to leave Gaza
• Member of the Saudi Shura Council to Trump: The truth is clear and falsehood is confused"
• "Israel Is Meant to Be Jewish and Democratic; It Cannot Be Both"
• How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
• Islamic Societies Reviews' (ISR's) most popular news stories of 2024
• Are the fighting in the north and the resisting in the south signs of disintegration of Syria?
• Israeli government committee: Turkey-backed Syria may pose greater threat than Iran
• Indonesia now has full membership in BRICS
• Türkiye cashing in early its investment in Syria's rebels; other regional leaders are following US footsteps and visiting Damascus
• US officials sat face to face with the person US government designated a "terrorist"
• Media Review: US state department worker, "Tired of writing about dead kids"
• Islamic D-8: can this intergovernmental organization help stabilize Southwest Asia and North Africa?
• Afghan Refugee Minister Assassinated in Explosion at Ministry HQ
• Media Review: Syrian opposition received Ukrainian support to undermine Russia and its allies
• Media review: Is Syria on the verge of a being a failed state?
• After the one-family rule collapses in Syria, Is Egypt's one man rule next?
• Syria and the "Arab Spring" 2.0
• Convergence of interests between Trump and Biden may result in an agreement to end the war in Gaza
• Terms of the ceasefire agreement in southern Lebanon, home to Lebanon’s Hezbollah
• The power of words: terrorism, antisemitism, and other qualifiers of killings
• Morocco's Islamist Benkirane: The role of Islamists is not to seek power
• Gaza is a stain on the world’s conscience
• U.S. uses veto, again, to block a draft cease fire in Gaza resolution
• Media Review: Malaysia will not recognize the occupation entity under any circumstances
• Russia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are new partners in BRICS
• Erdogan: Turkiye has cut off trade and relations with Israel
• Media review: Israel uses starvation to evacuate northern Gaza, and the Biden administration will not stop it
• Israeli Minister responds to Saudi Arabia's push for two-state solution: There will be no Palestine
• After a call between Pezeshkian and Bin Salman, the armies of the two countries discuss increasing military cooperation
• Indonesia and China relations: Prabowo visits Beijing for first state visit, as Singapore connects its economy to China
• Media review and A Lookback: "US elections: Gaza War is for Biden what Covid-19 was for Trump"
• Sistani to the UN representative: We regret the international community's inability to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- October 2024
• KSA FM: Normalization with KSA is off the table... What is happening in northern Gaza ... can only be described as a form of genocide
• Morocco principled foreign policy: If you support our occupation of Sahara you can say anything you want
• Media review, CNN commentator: "I hope your beeper doesn’t go off"
• Nika Soon-Shiong said LA Times endorsement was blocked over Gaza war support
• Macron to Netanyahu: Defending civilization is not about sowing barbarism
• BRICS Calling for a ceasefire in Gaza: We condemn Israel's attacks on Lebanon and Syria
• Indonesia's new government is introduced with emphasis on diplomaticy
• The Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman issues an official statement about the death of Sinwar
• Massive demonstrations in cities across Morocco with thousands demanding an end to the Israeli genocide
• Biden makes statement on the anniversary of killing of Palestinian American boy, stabbing of mother
• Nihon Hidankyo: "In Gaza, bleeding children are like in Japan 80 years ago"
• The National is publishing a full chronology of Israel's war on Gaza
• Media review: "Flattened in a year"
• Prestigious academic institutions' declining prestige
• Media review: "The biggest problem with Western media is more in what they don't show than in what they do show"
• Our Galaxy Appears To Be Part Of Structure So Large It Challenges Our Models Of Cosmology
• Media review: What does CBS's handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates' interview tell us about US media when it comes to telling the story of Palestininas?
• 130 Israeli soldiers will stop fighting if Netanyahu and Gallant continue the war in Gaza
• Israel is normalizing the assassination of religious leaders by targeting Sistani
• CIA: Iran capable of producing a nuclear bomb in a week
• Taliban Delegation Arrives in Moscow for Consultations on Afghan Issues
• “Iran’s Attack on Israel Failed”
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- September 2024
• Media Review: What will Hezbollah and Iran do and what might happen in the Middle East after Beirut Attacks?
• Chinese Foreign Minister: The Palestinian issue is the greatest wound to the conscience of humanity and historical injustice should not be ignored
• New Zealand journalist Shaneel Lal on Western Media and Genocide
• Is this what self-defense looks like?
• Former French Prime Minister: Gaza is the biggest historical scandal
• UN approves proposal for arms embargo on Israel
• Media review: World reacts to the unprecedented terrorist attack using pagers that took place today in Lebanon
• The Problem is not Netanyahu, it is Israel's next generation of leaders like Bezalel Smotrich
• How serious is the killing of US citizen outside US? It depends on who does the killing
• Media Reports: Israeli troops kill an American citizen in West Bank
• Media Review: The world mourns 6 dead and ignores 40,000 dead--Haaretz
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- August 2024
• Media review, CNN: "Israel’s military tells Gaza residents to go home but they find only rubble"
• The colonial pillaging and plunder continues
• The White House spread false optimism about a cease fire deal for a political reason
• Russian President Vladimir Putin kisses the Holy Quran handed to him as a gift from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
• Richard Medhurst: I was arrested at Heathrow Airport as a “Terrorist” for My Journalism
• US Air Force engineer resigns: “Absolutely appalled by Biden and Pentagon’s complicity in genocide”
• Media review: Understanding Blinken's assessment of when Iran will produce a nuclear bomb and Haniyeh's assassination
• Al-Azhar, Sistani, world condemn the "massacre of worshippers" in Gaza
• OIC: Haniyeh's Assassination Threatens to Push Middle East into Wider Conflict
• "Does [a non-Western government] have the right to defend itself?"
• Is Western civilization on the verge of collapse?
• In a 'Difficult' call, Netanyahu told Biden: "as Prime Minister of Israel, I act solely according to the security needs of the State of Israel"
• Media review: How did Israel track and assassinate leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah?
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- July 2024
• Media Review: The Impossible Defeat.. Why Did 2,700 Israeli Assassinations Fail to Make Israel Secure?
• Media review: 'You criminal, you murderer': Residents berate Israeli official at site of deadly rocket attack in Occupied Golan Heights
• Türkiye: Erdogan denounces Congress' reception of 'Hitler of our time'
• Media review of Netanyahu's visit to the US: He may have expedited US declining support Israel's War instead of increasing it
• Palestinian factions sign 'Beijing Declaration'; agree to form an "interim national reconciliation government"
• Tanzania's president dismisses two ministers as part of a constitutional amendment
• Israeli Minister says US Sanctions blow to State sovereignty
• The Racist History of Psychology
• Syria's Assad: Ready to meet Erdogan if it serves Syria's interest
• Dehumanizing Opponents as an Instrument of Supremacism: "human animals"
• Media Review: Washington Post | The Israeli army is "exhausted to the core" and the invasion of Lebanon is a trap for an endless war
• Imran Khan's party's presence in parliament gains strength months after the elections
• Why the US and West are losing the Rest?
• Media Review: Finnish President's article in The Economist, "the era of Western dominance as we know it is over"
• Full destruction in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in the eastern Gaza Strip
• Turkish President announces readiness to extend an invitation to President Assad
• Iran’s elections: Change brings new opportunities for Iran's new president--Masoud Pezeshkian
• Media review: Gaza War, Famine, Israeli troops documenting themselves committing war crimes, and the terrifying war between Hezbollah and Israel
• Can knowledge be IP'ed? Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft’s new AI division, seems to think No.
• 12 US officials who resigned denounce Biden's policy towards Gaza
• Media Review: The key to calm with Lebanon is in Gaza, and Israeli plans to divide the Strip
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- June 2024
• Media review: NYT's Friedman, "Biden must push Israel to accept Hamas' demands"
• Hezbollah displays extremely important scenes of military sites and sensitive facilities in Isael: "This is what the hoopoe brought back"
• Blinken: Hamas must respond to Biden’s proposal with a single word: yes; Hamas: did Netanyahu respond with a single word: yes?
• BRICS Foreign Ministers Support Granting Palestine Full UN Membership
• Russian official: Washington and its allies may face the use of our weapons by third parties
• Media review: Haaretz reporting on Israeli forces killing Israeli hostages and "Secret Israeli campaign targeted US lawmakers"
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- May 2024
• Journalist, Ed O’Keefe Asks: "How Many More Charred Corpses Does the President Need to See" to Change Gaza War Policy
• Should European nation-states be praised for their willingness to now recognize a Palestinian state?
• Lily Greenberg Call: Biden corrupted the idea of Jewish safety, weaponizing my community as a shield to dodge accountability
• Media Review: Haaretz asks, "Did the right-wing celebration of the Rafah massacre reveal the “ugly face” of Israel?"
• Spanish Defense Minister: What is happening in Gaza is a real genocide... something that cannot be ignored
• Three European nations to recognize Palestinian state
• Iran’s governing institutions will be tested, again, upon the death of the president in a crash of the presidential helicopter
• On this Day in History, May 19, Malcolm X, an icon for resisting injustice by “any means necessary”, was born
• Wealthy individuals and business leaders including the founder of Starbucks, incited the police to suppress the student movement protesting Genocide
• Another US governmental official and a Biden Appointee, who is also Jewish, resign protesting Biden's handling of the war in Gaza calling it a Genocide
• Reviewing Naomi Klein’s Declaration of Exodus from Zionism
• Arab rulers’ summit in Bahrain, the Tradition of Irrelevance
• Senior officer in the US Defense Intelligence Agency resigned objecting to US aid being used in thethe killing of civilians and children in Gaza
• US elections: Gaza War is for Biden what Covid-19 was for Trump
• Media Review: New York Times answers the question, why do American students choose Aljazeera?
• Media Review: Biden declaration that “Full” Rafah invasion means no US arms to Israel from this point forward, essentially confirming US complicity in attacks on other urban areas in Gaza
• Work, Wealth, and Artificial Intelligence
• US House Republicans want to send Americans to Gaza; Americans should take the offer
• Media Review; François Burga: Zionism is a racist ideology, two models for apossible solution--Algerian or South African model
• Side Effects of Iran's Retaliatory Strike on Israel: Iraqi Kurdistan now wants security talks in Iran after years of tensions
• The foreign ministers of Iran and Egypt discuss developments in the region and efforts to stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip
• Current Events: What should the world think when a majority of the people in a country support a Genocidal regime?
• Anti-Genocide student protests go global
• Media Review: “What is worse: Israel’s lies about Gaza or amplifying these lies by supporters?”
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY -- April 2024
• Journalism: The protests in solidarity with Palestine revealed the flaw in Washington’s policy
• Media Review: A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the anti-genocide protests currently happening at Columbia University
• Media Matters: Elon Musk, owner of "X", suspends the account of Mandela's grandson
• US Government: Infants were placed in the oven and cooked alive
• Media Review: “Anxiety and painful waiting.” What did the White House witness while anticipating the Iranian response?
• Media Matters: Clash of views about Gaza, Palestine, human rights abuses, and Iranian retaliation on attack on its diplomatic mission in Syria
• Qatar's threat to abandon mediation between Hamas and Israel opens the door for an increased role for Iran and Turkey
• Berkeley law school professors claim privacy of their home to limit free-speech after hosting a University event in the home
• USA, alone, again, voting against a resolution that would have recognized Palestine as full member of the UN
• Pakistan: Iran has the right to respond to the targeting of its consulate in Damascus
• New York Times tells its journalists which words to use when covering the war on Gaza
• Saudi Arabia UAE--two allies no longer able to solve their problems on their own
• Israeli media: Israeli politicians should thank Jordan; Jordan summons Iran's ambassador to protest
• Media review: Is Iran's first retaliatory attack on Israel really a failure?
• Iran retaliates: Israel's miscalculation allowed Iran to sideline US and attack Israel at the same time
• Media review: Israel arresting and assassianting family members of Hamas political leaders including chidlren
• Was Biden angry with Netanyahu for attacking Iran’s diplomatic building, a treaty violation, or for killing aid workers, a war crime, or both?
• The Saudi Mufti Prohibits giving money for Iftar charity, legitimizes slavery
• China condemns Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus: it is a grave violation of the UN Charter and international law
• Why does it take the killing of non-Gazans for the West to see war crimes?
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--March 2024
• For the first time in 20 years, Erdogan's party loses elections to opposition party in Turkiye
• Has US threat to force Qatar to expel Hamas out of Doha collapsed the Ceasefire negotiations?
• Norman Finkelstein: Israel is facing an existential crisis and South Africa offers a model for a one-state
• Demonstrations in Morocco are escalating and demanding an end to the siege, starvation, and killing of civlians in Gaza by Israel's armed forces
• Another US government employeee resigning in protest of gaza War: "Why I’m resigning from the State Department"
• Media Review: The New York Times debunks its own reporting on alleged sexual assaults in Kibbutzim by Hamas on October 7
• With US refrained from using its veto this time, 14 UNSC members adopted a resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza
• Aljazeera coverage of demontrations denouncin "the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip"
• Canada bans the export of weapons to Israel... Will other Western governments follow
• UN Security Council rejects US draft resolution on War in Gaza
• US admin: US will not support invasion of Rafah without protecting civilians; Netanyahu vows to defy allies; UN it will be "a disaster beyond imagination"
• Biden extends the state of emergency against Iran
• Russia reacts to US plans for building a port in Gaza: Dancing on bones, fake projects, and making fun of people
• An American woman injured in Gaza says, “I will not leave Gaza”
• French artist Corinne Raye, known as "Coco" publishes a cartoon in the newspaper "Liberation" mocking Muslims in Gaza, who are being starved to death
• Queen Rania: Dropping aid is not an alternative to opening the crossings, and what is happening is systematic action targeting children
• Guterres: Despite the start of Ramadan, killing, bombing and bloodshed continue in Gaza, and the attack on Rafah pushes the population to new depths in hell
• Erdogan: “No one can push us to classify Hamas as a terrorist organization... Netanyahu one of the Nazis of our time"
• Sensing US fractured foreign policy, China formulates its foreign policy with Taiwan and recognition of independent Palestine top priorities
• Biden confirms Israel killed more than 30,000 people in Gaza, used starvation as a bargaining chip
• Media Review: Aljazeera reports on American Jewish philosopher, "Hamas is an act of resistance against oppression"
• Media review: Haaretz says Israelis must wake up before it is too late
• Media review: How can one suicide incident be a heroic act, while another is considered an act of madness?
• Media review: 55% of Chinese respondents say US irresponsible in handling of Palestinian-Israeli conflict
• The United States fails to approve a UN statement on “Al-Rashid Street Massacre”
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--February 2024
• Media Review: Bearing False Witness--New York Times, Western Media
• Media Review: US Navy pilot burned himself in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington: "I will no longer be complicit in genocide"
• The US troops in Iraq are there to stay unless the US government chooses to pull them out
• China to the International Court of Justice: armed resistance is a legitimate right
• Does providing weapons to state that kills civilians and children in disproportionate numbers represent complicity in alleged war crimes?
• German government officials accused of complicity in the Gaza Genocide
• Media review: The West is losing “liberal Muslims” because of the Gaza War
• Lula da Silva: What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, but rather annihilation... and “Israel” is behaving like Hitler
• Russia’s space nuclear weapon that does kill people but can paralyze global communication; what else can it do?
• Pakistan government commissioner admits election fraud; Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of Pakistani Islamic Scholars Association, admitted that the overthrow of Imran Khan by Army Commander, General Qamar Javed Bajwa
• What is the value of the life of a Muslim person compared to the life of a Westerner?
• Media review: Western democracy is declining and losing its value
• Media review: The Gaza war creates a new Islamic front and threatens American influence--Foreign Affairs
• After 127 days of killing in Gaza, US admin officials admit errors: We made mistakes and we do not trust the current Netanyahu government
• Media review: How to End America’s Hypocrisy on Gaza
• Pakistan announces the final results of the elections, and Imran Khan’s party takes the lead
• The midnight statement of the Saudi Foreign Ministry regarding normalization: What prompted it?
• Media review: CNN faces pressure from its employees because of its bias towards Israel
• Biden denounces anti-Arab rhetoric after an article described Dearborn as “the jihad capital of America”
• Media review: Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times: What can we tell the children of Gaza?
• As a global superpower, US foreign policy can sink presidential elections, Should Biden worry given his stance on Gaza war?
• A First: More than 800 Officials from ally nations across the Atlantic have united to publicly criticize their governments over the war on Gaza
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--January 2024
• Chinese President Xi Jinping officially received the credentials of the Taliban ambassador to Beijing
• US government employees to stage one-day hunger strike on Thursday to denounce Joe Biden’s policy on Gaza
• US Central Command Statement: "U.S. Forces, Allies Conduct Joint Strikes in Yemen; Houthis respond
• Media review: Why did Hamas attack?
• G77 + China: The largest intergovernmental coalition within the United Nations meets at turning point
• Media Review: Underscoring the risks associated with attacking Yemen, European countries, including France, refused to support it
• Egypt denies Israel's allegations of preventing aid from entering Gaza
• The Washington Institute: Hezbollah's popularity and support for Hamas have risen in Lebanon
• Media Review: How did major American newspapers cover the Gaza war?
• Sheikh Hasina wins elections boycotted by the opposition in Bangladesh
• Sam Altman of OpenAI: “I am Jewish… I see a lot of people in our industry sticking up for me... while that support for Muslims is comparatively lower"
• Contrary to Ankara’s political rhetoric in support of Palestinians, Turkish exports to Israel increased
• British documents: Britain conducted a secret dialogue with Hezbollah and then sought to exploit Hariri to dismantle his military capabilities
• Media Review: The National Interest calls on Biden to return soldiers from Syria and Iraq: stop making them targets
• Asymmetrical urban warfare: How the war in Gaza has been fought
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--December 2023
• Media Review: Washington Post, Arabs are beginning to wonder about their place in the world
• Religion and war: Modern Islamic religious institutions and Gaza War
• Le Monde: Western donors punish human rights organizations because of their support for Gaza
• Mexican actress Melissa Barrera continues to support Gaza despite her exclusion from “Scream 7”
• Media review: Western warning against use of the term “Gaza genocide” despite the continued killing and displacement of people
• Iran Summons Russian Envoy Over Statement on Disputed Gulf Islands
• Spain refuses to participate in the “Guardian of Prosperity” coalition in the Red Sea
• Netanyahu: We will not stop the war nor will we withdraw our forces from Gaza, Oslo Accords were a grave mistake that must not be repeated
• If I must die
• By a margin of 80% (for) to 5% (against), the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
• Washington Post: Biden shows deep sympathy for Israel and lacks it with the civilians killed or injured in Gaza
• Media review: Libération, accounts of the beheading of children, rape and burning by Hamas fighters are false and aimed at garnering support for revenge against Gaza
• A fatwa spurred the boycott of Israel's supporters in Indonesia
• European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell: The destruction in Gaza is worse than what Germany witnessed during World War II
• The irreparable damage to Western civilization due to its complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Media review: US, Israel isolated in the world, face internal and external pressure to stop the killing
• International condemnation of the American “veto”... “History will not forget Washington’s actions”... Israel conducting mass-arrests of "military-aged" Gazan Men
• The United States, alone, again, blocking a UNSC resolution backed by more than 100 countries calling for a stop to the War on Gaza
• But We Must Speak: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rashid Khalidi on Israeli Occupation, Apartheid & the 100-Year War on Palestine
• Rap of liberation from occupation... “Lowkey” and the mixture of languages and singing arts in “Palestine Will Never Die”
• Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie condemns Israeli bombardment of Gaza
• The Wall Street Journal: Nature and quantity of American weapons provided to Israel since October 7
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--November 2023
• Media Review; ToI: Iranian Leader does not believe in throwing the Jews into the sea and a general referendum must be held in Palestine
• Israeli PM: “Islam in the Arab countries needs radical change”
• Indonesian Foreign Minister: We will pursue "Israel" in the International Court of Justice
• Media Review: The Washington Post: How does Israel detain hundreds of Palestinians in prisons without charge?
• Media Review: Aljazeera highlights Qassam fighters' treatment of Israeli prisoners and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli forces
• Media review: CNN: The possibility of the Israeli army placing weapons in Al-Shifa Hospital is high
• Al-Azhar Observatory: The Zionist entity and ISIS are two sides of the same coin
• Former US official: Killing 4,000 Palestinian children is “not enough”
• Argentina will likely withdraw its application to join BRICS
• Media review: On CNN, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, 'Israel built the tunnels under Gaza hospital'
• Chinese Foreign Ministry: We are good friends of the Arab and Islamic countries
• Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar accuses other countries in the European Union, and the West in general, of double standards against the backdrop of the conflict in the Middle East
• Media review: An Israeli investigation suggests Israeli military helicopters may have been responsible for killing some Israelis
• Media review: New York Times: Gaza is a graveyard for children
• Anne Boyer, a poetry writer for the American New York Times Magazine, resigned in protest against the Gaza war
• A memorandum now signed by 100s of State Department employees and the US Agency for Development accuses Biden of spreading misleading information about the war in Gaza
• Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament: The Nations of the world will not be lectured amy more by Europe about Human Rights
• One million signatures on an Amnesty petition calling for an end to the aggression against Gaza
• The final statement of the Arab-Islamic Summit calls for breaking the siege on Gaza and bringing in humanitarian aid
• Doctors in the Al-Shifa hospital are now being forced to carry out artificial respiration by hand on the 36 babies that they’re caring for
• In an Open Letter, 100s of American journalists criticize coverage of the war on Gaza and the killing of journalists
• US Diplomats warn Biden: We are losing support of Arabs for a generation
• A Million people march in Indonesia in support of Gaza
• Israeli minister suggesting "dropping an atomic bomb" and doctors recommending bombing of hospitals in Gaza
• US administration, Blinken: "We need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians" | Angelina Jolie: “World leaders complicit in the crime of turning Gaza into a mass grave.”
• China, Russia and Brazil demand an end to the aggression: “Israel” is causing an unparalleled disaster
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--October 2023
• Israel Has Killed More Kids in 3 Weeks Than Were Killed in All Global Conflicts Annually Since 2019
• Keypoints from the President of Turkey, Erdogan, before a crowd organized in support of Gaza
• Queen Rania: Israel commits atrocities under the guise of self-defense
• New York Times Invesigation: Israeliclaim of 'Palestinian rocket' hitting Gaza's Baptist Hospital
• Media Review: The New York Times warns Biden: “Israel” is about to make a grave mistake
• State Department official resigns over Biden administration’s handling of Israel-Hamas conflict
• Timeline and connections between the fake news story of “40 babies beheaded” and the stabbing to death of Muslim-American child
• China says Israel acting 'beyond scope of self-defense'
• Deputy Chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation's statement on the orders to displace Gazan civilians
• Israeli leaders threaten civilians trapped in Gaza: "leave now" because Gaza will be turned "into rubble"
• Media reports: Ukraine's allies proposed striking “Iranian drone production factories in Iran, Syria and Russia”
• State-sponsored Islam: Germany's first cohort of locally trained imams can't find work
• France expels a Sri Lankan student who is fluent in French under the pretext of not integrating
• Archaeologists unearth the largest cemetery ever discovered in Gaza and find rare lead sarcophogi
• Islamic Societies Review MONTHLY--September 2023
• Iran and Saudi Arabia are discussing canceling the visa and developing tourism relations
• A Dead Russian General Walking: A Ukrainian government run by amateurs and through PR
• With cold season around the corner, assessing Ukrainian counteroffensive should be a sobering exercise
• News media review: Zelensky visited Poland during his return from Washington, but no official in the country received him
• media review: Is India being pressured by the West using the human rights claims?
• The Syrian and Chinese presidents sign a strategic cooperation agreement
• Seymour Hersh: Ukrainian armed forces have already called off the attack after weeks of heavy losses and Zelensky and Biden are not interested in putting an end to the “massacre”
• General Assembly of the United Nations; 19-23 + 26 September 2023
• The neocolonial food economy: How Bill Gates and others threaten Africa's agricultural future?
• After waiting longer than any applicant, Erdogan now says Turkiye could 'part ways' with EU
• While Western governments are crying foul over Russia’s termination of the “gain deal”, European governments are banning the import of grain from Ukraine
• Inflation contributes to declining income and increasing poverty in the United States
• The summit of the “77 + China” group in Havana... increasing roles for the groups that reject hegemony
• Healthcare inequity: How Big Pharma and Western Governments betrayed countries of the Global South
• ISR Weekly Review Bulletin for September 6, 2023
• Rights matters: Muslims right to education is superseded by France's commitment to secularism
• Media Review: Africa's French-backed governments are falling one after the other, is Senegal Next?
• The aftermath of BRICS expansion: The West will warn its Arab Allies who joined the Bloc
• Amir Abdollahian receives Hakan Fidan: Research on bilateral and regional issues, preparation for a trilateral summit of Iran-Saudi Arabia-Turkiye is underway
• The statements of a Belgian minister about the occupation's violations against the Palestinians and the killing of children raise a diplomatic crisis with Israel.. and Guinness confirms that she does not regret her statements
• Presidential elections in Singapore.. Tharman is the likely successor to Halima Yaqoub
• Days before a meeting between Putin and Erdogan in Sochi, Russia starts delivering grain to 6 African countries without charge
• Media review: Islamic dress front and center in France again... He who wears a cape or a shirt will not enter his classroom on Mondays
• Philippines: Muslims affirm that the first dictionary of Islamic law will be issued bearing the slogan of justice and mercy
• Russia activates its alternative routes to replace transit and shipping through the Black Sea, while Iran Saudi Arabia upgrade their newly revived relations
• Macron admits the Western dominated global order is being challenged, calls for revised strategies
• Biden: “We must refuse to live in a country where Black families live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin.”
• Saudi Arabia to teach two Chinese classes weekly in secondary schools
• Qatar in talks with Algeria to invest in petrochemical projects in the North African Country
• Including Iran and Saudi Arabia.. 6 new countries join as full members of the "BRICS"
• Days after Iranian officials unveiled new weapons systems, Military officials visit Russia
• Media Review, BILD: Russia, Türkiye and Qatar are preparing a new agreement to replace the grain deal
• Amir Abdullahian after meeting Ibn Salman in Jeddah: Our talks were frank and fruitful--The Saudi Crown Prince after the meeting: a review of ways to develop relations
• A senior official in “NATO”: Ukraine can join the alliance if it cedes part of its territory to Russia, and Medvedev, Kiyv respond
• Media Review: The Guardian says Britain must acknowledge its role in the 1953 coup in Iran
• The Century Project.. Algeria announces the completion of a road linking its borders with Tunisia and Morocco
• In retreating from the threat of military intervention to restore the elected government.. ECOWAS: Dialogue with the leaders of the Nigerien coup is the "basic" of efforts to resolve the crisis
• Kazakhstan, and soon Russia, increase export of agricultural goods through Iran via the INSTC
• A racist group hostile to Islam in Denmark burns the Holy Qur’an in front of the embassies of Islamic countries in Copenhagen and raises slogans against Muslims
• Algeria's Lieutenant General Saïd Chanegriha, Chief of Staff of People's National Army, on an official visit to the Russian Federation
• The Russia-Africa Summit adopts a joint action plan for 3 years
• Supremacism in Europe: Third scandal hits Finland’s government in space of a month
• Iran's new missile: "Abu Mahdi", the first Iranian long-range cruise missile that uses artificial intelligence
• Colonial media practices: The blatant double standards will mark the fall of the "free world" discourse on previously-universalized values
• Putin reveals Russia's goals with African countries: We will develop cooperation and work together to solve poverty and food security problems
• Fātima Al-Fihri the founder of the oldest university in the world that is still operating without interruption
• Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune: Algeria had submitted an official request to join the BRICS group
• Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday that the Ukrainian counterattack had failed.
• Too Hot? Learn how communities dealth with heat for 2500 years: The legacy of the wind towers of an ancient Iranian city
• Is NATO expansion a cause for the war in Ukraine?
• Towards a world without American hegemony
• Truth is often the first victim to fall in the battlefield: The politics of war, media, and journalism
• U.S. has resumed indirect talks with Iran - CNN reported
• Chinese Foreign Minister: Relations with Washington are at their lowest level since 1979
• The Great Convergence: Global Equality and Its Discontents
• The Four Amigos: How the close alliance grew between the far Global South Flanks
• China's president, Xi, calls for a Palestinian state to become full member of UN
• Raisi visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, as part of his Latin American tour
• After cancelling a scheduled visit to France, the Algerian President goes to Russia on an official visit
• African leaders are increasingly calling for use of African currencies for African trade; President of Kenya calls on all African countries to abandon the US dollar for local trade transactions
• Algeria's president, Tebboune, signs a decree requiring the full performance of the Algerian national anthem
• ISR Weekly Review Bulletin for June 12, 2023
• Saudi Arabia seeks closer ties with China, defends criticism from the west, explains ties to China as "Cooperation for prosperity"
• Khamenei: There is no harm in concluding an agreement with the West and not heading towards building a nuclear weapon, not because of our fear of enemies, but rather because of our faith
• Ahmed's Chechen special forces fighting in Ukraine alongside Russia: Origins, Development, and mission
• A joint Gulf-American statement issued after the joint ministerial meeting of the strategic partnership between the Gulf Cooperation Council states and the United States
• The Ukrainian counteroffensive is finally on
• US intelligence was informed of the Ukrainian plan to bomb Nord Stream.. It was carried out by Ukrainian military divers working directly under the command of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
• Ukrainian Counteroffensive is on and using dams as weapons of war
• Report: The new "BRICS" currency poses a threat to the West
• Days before Blinken visit to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia welcomes Venezuelan President
• US says Iran’s claimed naval alliance with Saudi, Gulf nations "defies reason"
• A secret meeting of the leaders of the world's major intelligence services in Singapore
• Senegal: dead in protests after the prison sentence of the opposition leader
• With the imminent lifting of subsidies, huge queues at petrol stations in Nigeria
• The BRICS countries call for a “rebalancing” of the global system.. and Lavrov confirms the discussion of the issue of Saudi Arabia’s acceptance of the alliance
• The quiet rise and rule of Singapore that cannot be unnoticed by its loud neighbors and distant friends
• Ukrainian president said he will not talk to Russia until Putin is gone; meet his likely successor—Medvedev?
• Sheikh al-Azhar: Western civilization bears the largest part of the tragedy of modern man
• Israeli media report: Iran can produce 7 nuclear bombs within 3 months and has enough enriched uranium to produce 6 more bombs within a few months
• Newsweek: How Ukraine Followed the ISIS Playbook
• The Minister of Defense of Mali is visiting Iran, on an official visit aimed at strengthening inter-military relations between the two countries
• The president of the Chechen Republic reacts the election results in Turkiye
• After his inauguration as President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu pledges to unite the country and ensure its security
• What happens now that Erdogan is re-elected president of Turkiye?
• The first Chinese-made passenger plane takes off on its first commercial flight
• Foreign Policy asks: "What drives the Western media to filter out a lot of international news or to neglect it completely?"
• The "Taliban": "we destroyed 18 Iranian border facilities in total"
• Personalities and ideologies that drive the conflict between NATO and Russia and their semi-proxy war in Ukraine
• Instrumentalizing migrants for political purposes in Turkish elections
• Egypt and Iran will exchange ambassadors this year as part of a process mediated by the Sultanate of Oman and an upcoming meeting between Sisi and Raisi
• US officials to the New York Times: Ukraine most likely carried out the attack on the Kremlin carracterized by Moscow as an assassination attempt
• ISR Weekly Review Bulletin for May 23, 2023
• Iran, Indonesia Agree on Mutual Settlements in National Currencies
• MP Geert Wilders: "The Netherlands is no longer the Netherlands"
• Ukraine Official: Security of the entire Middle East region cannot be resolved without the complete de-occupation of Crimea
• UK’s Special Forces have been deployed operationally in at least 19 countries since 2011, including the Muslim-majority countries of Algeria, Iran, Oman, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen
• German investigators: Ukraine blew up Nord Stream pipelines
• Ali Akbar Ahmadian, new Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran
• Comparing economic indicators for countries associated with BRICS and the G7
• Arab League Summit Welcomes Syrian President Back and receives statements from Russia and China
• Chinese media reporting on the China-Central Asia Summit
• Turkish elections news, Erdogan: Türkiye and Russia need each other, rejects talks with third candidate
• Iran and Russia sign an agreement to build a railway line boosting the North-South Trade Route initiative
• Zionist settlers intimidating, beating Palestinians in Jerusalem ahead of their Flad Day event
• An Israeli Institute for Studies publishes a video about a secret Iranian drone base dedicated to carrying out the “swarm attack”
• Analyzing the news and views released by Ukrainian and Russian sources about the status and importance of Bakhmut
• The US is dangerously connecting Taiwan standoff to Ukrainian crisis
• Mauritanian parliamentary and local elections
• The release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on bail
• The resistance launches rockets and the number of martyrs of the Israeli bombing rises
• Türkiye Elections: Candidate Muharrem Ince withdraws; Erdogan bribes voters with wage increase 3 days before the presidential elections
• Police arrest former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
• Did Syria return to the Arab League or did the Arab League return to Syria?
• Head of Wagner asks Moscow to hand over the sites of his group in Bakhmut to Kadyrov's Chechen forces in protest of the lack of ammunition
• The Kremlin announces that it was attacked by two Ukrainian drones in an attempt to assassinate Putin
• Amman Consultative Meeting Statement: For the exit of illegal foreign forces from Syria
• Iran’s Inside man who sold secret information to Britain's MI6 for power and greed
• With Truce or Ceasefire remain elusive in Sudan, Clashes continue between the army and the Rapid Support Forces
• China's Special Envoy for the Middle East, Zhai Jun: China looks at relations with Syria from a strategic perspective, and within a comprehensive vision for the region
• ISR Weekly Review Bulletin for April 23, 2023
• Eid Mubarak: Muslims around the world celebrate the end of the month of Ramadan
• In The News: Vatican official says the West bears a great responsibility in destabilizing the Middle East
• Media review: is France's Macron rebelling against the Western world order?
• Strong reaction by Medvedev to South Korea's readiness to supply Kiev with weapons: What will the South Koreans say if Russian weapons reach their northern neighbor?
• Renewed clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman
• War News In Review: Is there going to be a Ukrainian spring offensive this year?
• In a move that gives meaning to "borderless" partnership, the Kremlin announces Putin's meeting with the Chinese Defense Minister in Moscow
• Updates on the clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces
• media review: German companies expand their investments in China
• The President of the Political Council of Sanaa Government meets the delegations of Saudi Arabia and Oman in Sana'a
• Venezuela aiming to insolate its economy from western sanctions builds new ties with Iran and Russia
• Why and how is Beijing becoming the Mecca of Geopolitics?
• China's Taiwan Strategy is about Isolating the island and claiming the space around it for China
• Without including a condemnation of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, a statement by Macron and Xi urge the “return of peace” in Kiev
• Russia is now planning for long lasting war
• Shamkhani’s February activities are now being revealed: directing a foreign policy linked to long term economic security
• media review: CIA Director expressed dissatisfaction with Saudi Arabia's rapprochement with Iran
• Media Review: The world of the dollar reserve system is coming to an end
• China's time to become a global powerhouse is now, how will it manage its new role?
• A surprising development.. A German investigation points fingers at two new countries regarding the "Nord Stream" bombing and the password in the boat
• How do US and EU sanctions work?
• The role of the UN and the UNSC in preventing conflict
• Media review: Cracks in Western media coverage of the war in Ukraine created by the narrative of a spring offensive and Bakhmut
• NATO nations’ support to Ukrainian armed forces reaches another level
• Qatar acknowledges that it is vetoing Syria's return to the Arab League
• France: Millions of people demonstrate against Macron's pension amendments... and strikes continue
• Saudi cabinet approved the decision to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
• An investigative report reveals that some countries, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are secretly sending ammunition to Ukraine
• UNSC failed to get Nord Stream blast international independent investigative commission
• There Will be no Bakhmut Left for anyone to Keep or Liberate
• Foreign ministers of the GCC, in a letter to Minister Anthony Blinkkin: "the United States of America to assume its responsibilities in responding to all measures and statements targeting the Palestinian people"
• Zelenskiy uses Islam for war purposes
• UN says both Russia and Ukraine executed prisoners of war: Ukraine executed 25 Russian POWs, Russia executed 15 Ukrainian POWs
• Iran condemns the suppression of demonstrators in France... and calls for non-use of violence
• Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, announced that the topic of the episodes of the month of Ramadan will focus on women’s rights in Islamic law
• Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's National Security Council, adds another scenario that could trigger a nuclear war: arresting the Russian President in another country
• Comparing Scenes from the Protests in the Garden of Prosperity and the Celebration of Nowruz in "Women-Oppressor" Iran
• On the edge of a nuclear confrontation: Putin warned that Britain's supply of Ukraine with depleted uranium stockpile will force Russia to insert nuclear component, too
• Media Review: The American magazine "Foreign Affairs" talks about that the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia can change the region
• China's President Xi Jinping: "changes have not happened since 100 years ago. When Russia and China come together, they will lead this change"
• Replicating US State Department practice, China's Foreign Ministery issues a report on "The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022"
• From Moscow, Russia, Chinese president: "complex problems have no simple solutions"
• 20 Years ago, Today, the United States Government and Allied Illegally Invaded Iraq
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrives in the UAE on a surprise official visit, and meets his Emirati counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
• China, Iran, Russia hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman
• Chechen Republic President explains why his troops are fighting in Ukraine
• Turkey's ruling party considers Assad's conditions to meet Erdogan "inappropriate"
• The Garden of Prosperity Today
• After striking a security deal that opened the door to political normalization between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Shamkhani eyes security upgrades with UAE
• Saudi Arabia will stop oil supplies to countries that set a price ceiling on its oil
• US Senator Roger Marshall: "The greatest long-term threat the United States faces is our national debt"
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: will not meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unless Turkey withdraws its forces from northern Syria
• New opinion polls show that the opposition candidate for the Turkish presidency, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, is ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of the May 14 elections
• "Arab passengers being removed from the buses even if they had blue ID cards" is not a new, isolated event
• How the US aggressive, political, and inhumane use of sanctions could turn sanctions into a liability
• Jordan: “elite” calls for a “quick review” and sending an “ambassador to Iran.”
• Global Media Review for March 1-10, 2023
• Media Review: The New York Times: The Tehran-Riyadh agreement in Beijing is a great loss for Washington's interests
• Brokered by Chinese diplomacy, National Security Apparatuses in Iran and Saudi Arabia greenlight the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries
• Russia’s former president reviews news about the attack on Nord Stream as a bad movie: made people feel as if they ate pork knuckle with beer
• Is the West losing the propaganda war to China? "Is the [pro-Ukraine group] named Biden Administration?"
• Media Review: A multipolar world is indeed good for the disempowered, it has always been that way
• History of International Women's Day
• What is the difference between the war in Iraq and the war in Ukraine?
• The Gulf states and "Israel" are secretly pressuring Russia not to arm Iran
• The Turkish opposition alliance chooses Kilicdaroglu as its candidate in the presidential elections against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• Politicians’ Micromanagement of the war in Ukraine is exacting a heavy cost
• UN nuke watchdog chief in Iran: Any military attack on a nuclear facility is illegal
• An African president extends his finger towards Macron, saying: Look at us with respect, far from paternity and contempt
• Modern Urban Warfare
• Medvedev: NATO will provide Ukraine with fighters and maintain them in Poland, entering into a direct war with Russia
• Prime Minister of Qatar: The war with Iran is not in the interest of the Gulf states, and reaching a solution through frank dialogue would be a great achievement for peace, trade and the economy
• From the humanitarian gate, Egypt moved towards raising the level of its relationship with Syria
• Media Review: Military Watch: A “terrifying” Chinese weapon located in Algeria destroys “NATO” tanks if delivered to Russia
• The History of Illegal, Unjust Wars
• At the conclusion of the "G20"... India refuses to condemn the Russian military operation in Ukraine
• Beijing submits a peace plan proposal as a public position for the conflcit between Russia and Ukraine
• Western Media Review: After the Ukraine war, the West has become more isolated
• Dmitry Medvedev: Defeating Russia will Trigger Nuclear War
• Putin: The relations between Russia and China are developing...and waiting for the Chinese President's visit
• Secret documents reveal for the first time.. Bush and Blair were certain of Iraq's inability to develop weapons of mass destruction two years before the war
• Is China Taking Gloves Off? "U.S. has no right to lecture on possible arms supplies to Moscow"
• Al-Assad from Muscat: The region is now more in need of the role of the Sultanate of Oman
• China's President Xi Jinping set to visit Iran
• The 36th summit of the African Union.. What is on its agenda?
• By not calling the Syrian government with words of condolence for the dead Syrians, Erdogan may have missed his chance to rehabilitate his sectarian supremacy
• The Chinese and Iranian presidents agree to deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries
• Is the visit by Iran’s president to China a relation-repair opportunity or a bilateral strategic summit?
• How and why do US-Trained Afghan Troops, ISIS, and Syrian Rebels end up Fighting on either side in Ukraine?
• Abe's memoirs after his assassination: I met Putin despite Washington's objection...and rejected sanctions against Moscow
• Syria and Turkiye Earthquake: A father holds the hand of his daughter without letting go, among the rubble and destruction
• Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh: The CIA carried out the Nord Stream bombing
• Media Review: Washington, with its sanctions, is responsible for increasing the suffering of the afflicted Syrians
• Algerian Chief of Staff to an American official: We adhere to the principle of non-alignment and the independence of our sovereign decision in our dealings with our international partners
• War narratives and justifications: the case of war in Ukraine
• French media outlet: There is not even the need to send tanks to kill and destroy Turkish and Syrian homes
• Turkey, Syria earthquake: initial death toll, cracks in Gaziantep Citadel, and oil and gas pumping stopped
• In the strongest threat.. Medvedev: If “Crimea” is targeted, the rest of the Ukrainian lands that are still under Kyiv’s control will turn to ashes, and there will be no restrictions, and our response will be with all kinds of weapons
• The Aftershocks of France’s Colonial Supremacy is Empowered by its Current Hubris
• Media Review: The National Interest says Washington is obstructing a political solution in Yemen
• Only three Muslims-majority countries, Turkey, Pakistan and Morocco provide some form of military aid to Ukraine
• The New York Times: Russia's economic growth confirms the limited impact of Western sanctions
• The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, said Saturday's Iran attack was carried out by Israel
• Argentina, Brazil reject the German request to send weapons to Ukraine
• Pakistan: We will get Russian oil starting next April
• Canada's Prime Minister, Trudeau, appoints Canada’s First Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia
• Commenting on Sweden's permission to burn the Qur'an, Turkish FM, Cavusoglu, says, Hate crimes are not freedom of expression
• Joseph Borrell: "You can't say I consider you a terrorist because I don't like you."
• Will next week be decisive in determining the fate of the global economy?
• Saudi Religious Rulers: There is no validity to apostasy law in Islam
• Dmitry Medvedev: the loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war
• The "double standard" of the British media... This is how London's lies were promoted before the invasion of Iraq
• The Jordanian Parliament decided to dismiss Representative Muhammad Al-Fayez, following a letter he addressed to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman
• Chechens and Caucasus, Albanians and Uzbeks are moving to Idlib to fight in Ukraine
• At the same time US think-tank-experts warn of the difficulty of disrupting the Iranian drone program by the Americans and Europeans, Iran announces that the Russian Sukhoi-35 will arrive in Iran next March
• Western Sahara: The Polisario movement's 16th congress began its conference to renew its leadership
• Internet, Space, Politics, and War: How Western government-business collaborations and connections is spurring other countries to develop their own
• The Algerian president Inaugurates Nelson Mandela stadium in Algeria and discusses what he said to the most senior officials of the International and African Football Federations
• Erdogan's advisor: Turkiye needs full control over Syria's Aleppo to solve refugee issue
• The Uk’s 83 Military Interventions Around The World Since 1945
• Muslim scholars and officials from 14 Muslims majority countries visited China to take a closer look at the situation in Xinjiang region
• About 300 fighters of the AKHMAT-1 riot police of the National Guard of the Chechen Republic left Grozny International Airport to join the war in Ukraine
• Iran: Paris must observe the basic principles of international relations, such as respect, non-interference, and respect for the national and religious sanctities of others
• Reviewing Turskish media reaction to the Ankara - Damascus Normalization
• Africa
• The correspondent of the Danish public service station, Mathilde Kimer, reveals that the Ukrainian intelligence services asked her to carry out propaganda work for Ukraine, in order to prove that she is not pro-Russian
• The first meeting between the defense ministers of Turkey and Syria in Moscow
• Saudi Salafi Religious Leaders rebuke Taliban over Women Education Ban
• Biden: the Iran Nuclear Deal is dead, but we're not gonna announce it
• Macron reaffirms his position on giving Russia security “guarantees” in the event of peace negotiations at the end of the war in Ukraine
• US-Turkish relations: US will not be selling F 16 fighter jets to Turkey
• Jordan: popular protests are escalating, civil disobedience is approaching, and security forces are mobilizing and arresting 44 people
• Thousands of Turks are protesting against preventing the mayor of Istanbul from practicing politics
• How the West Brought War to Ukraine
• China: Our investments and aid to Africa are not a trap, but a benefit
• The mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned for two years and 7 months for "insulting officials"
• After the statement of the Chinese-Gulf summit.. Beijing confirms its support for Iran's territorial sovereignty
• Demonstrations in Bangladesh calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister and the dissolution of Parliament
• What is the prospect of negotiation with Russia after Merkel's recognition? The erosion of Western credibility
• China is trying to mend relations with Iran after It president signed a GCC countries Statement that contained reference to Iranian islands being part of UAE
• Islam in Russia: The 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the Volga Bulgaria
• Full text of Xi Jinping's keynote speech at China-Arab States Summit
• French Police Violently Disperse Celebrating Morocco's Win Over Portugal
• The United States warns of the formation of a "full defense partnership" between Russia and Iran, describing it as causing "harm" to Ukraine, Iran's neighbors and the world
• A Saudi-Chinese agreement to hold a summit between the two leaderships every two years and to sign agreements worth billions of dollars.. The Saudi Crown Prince affirms the Kingdom’s commitment to the “One China” policy
• Syria refused Turkey's request to arrange a meeting between Erdogan and Assad
• Times: Banning alcohol gave women the chance to enjoy the World Cup without hassle
• Kiev: About 13 thousand Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the war; not 100,000
• The US Special Envoy for Iran: "Iran is perhaps weeks away from enriching the fissile material needed to develop a nuclear weapon"
• Report: Half of the world's democracies are in decline, and Washington is in peril
• Qatari Minister to the West: LGBT people can visit our country but don't try to change our beliefs
• Wealth and Power: Sexual slavery pursues Ukrainian women and contempt for Africans
• Nations from the Garden of Prosperity Do not Like Losing to countries of the Jungle
• U.S. soccer scrubs the word for "God" from Iran flag
• Is Pakistan on a path to profound changes that can no longer be controlled by outdated systems and outside players?
• Germany: The first cause of Europe's crisis is the rise of Asia, not the Ukraine war
• Germany: We agree with America to shift focus with Iran from the nuclear file to issues of rights and to exert pressure on Tehran to stop repression
• Medvedev is in a direct undiplomatic response to Ukraine: Kyiv is a Russian city and it will be restored
• Mahathir Mohamad loses his seat in the Malaysian parliament
• Russia loading a strategic missile In the Orenburg region
• "Just Hypocrisy": FIFA President Gianni Infantino On World Cup Critics
• Burning of the American flag during rallies commemorating the "Polytechnic" uprising in Athens; a reminder of US history of siding with dictators and removing democratically elected leaders
• Zelensky for the Group of Twenty: Poland hit a "message" from Moscow to you; Biden: The explosion in Poland was caused by a Ukrainian missile
• The Sunni-Shia Cold War: The Origins and Evolution of the Saudi Hegomony
• The Turkish Minister of Interior accuses Kurdish Units of masterminding the Istanbul bombing and criticizes the United States
• The Kremlin: Russian-American talks took place in Ankara at the request of Washington
• UN Report Blasts "Outrageous" US Sanctions Harming Syrian Civilians
• Why did Russian leaders Order Troops Withdrawal from Kherson City?
• Some of the most prominent Arab and Muslim candidates in the American midterm elections
• Iran builds hypersonic ballistic missile
• Biden: "We Will Free Iran"; Raisi: "Mr. President! Iran was liberated 43 years ago, and it’s determined to never become a milk cow."
• The Sheikh of Al-Azhar calls for a dialogue with Shiite Muslim scholars
• The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 185 to 2, Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba
• A Columbia University study found that 100% of the mass killings were initiated by males of whom 66.7% were White
• How the Russian Federation is Relying on the Chechen Republic to Foster Stronger Relations with Muslim-Majority Countries
• Erdogan presents the expected tidings to Europe at the gates of the winter crisis: We will distribute Russian gas to you through our Turkish lands
• Ukraine Conflict Has never been just about Ukraine: The Danger Catastrophic of Out-of-Control Escalation is Real
• Soccer, Religion, Culture, and Politics: Qatar may live to Regret hosting the Global Event
• Iranian FM: U.S. sends message to Iran, "in hurry" to reach nuke agreement
• US Admin: Iranian soldiers are in Crimea to help Russia operate drones to launch strikes across Ukraine
• A first since the start of the war, Chechen women visit the frontlines in Ukraine
• Josep Borell, EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Chief: "Europe is a garden... the rest of the world is a jungle"
• On suspicion of ties to Russian intelligence, Germany dismisses the head of cybersecurity
• Skulls were returned from France to Algeria do not all belong to the resistance fighters
• Tens of thousands protest in Paris against Macron, and Melenchon calls for a general strike
• For the first time, Russia shows a video of its "Lancet" suicide march attacks in Ukraine
• Women and politics: contextualizing why Iran cannot mandate that women wear head-covering in public places but Europe's high court is ok with ban on on women wearing head-covering in work places
• The White House: Washington is reassessing the relationship with Riyadh after the “OPEC +” decision
• Chinese firms put deeper roots in Pakistan in post-flood reconstruction; more joint efforts needed for regional recovery
• Media Review: The West is Paying the Price for Instrumentalizing Human Rights and Convenience-Driven Policies
• Erdoğan, Putin discuss bilateral ties, Ukraine war
• After Meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Confirms that He Wants to Meet with Syrian leader Bashar Assad
• Dmitry Medvedev: Western govs have realized that their sanctions are self-mutilation... A typical crossbow in your own **s
• “OPEC +” agrees to reduce oil production by an average of two million barrels per day
• US intelligence: parties within the government of Ukraine are behind the assassination of Daria Dugin
• How has the Chinese president restructured his army to become the largest power in the world?
• Chinese president calls on military to focus on preparing for military action
• From the special operation to the partial mobilization... What is the significance of Putin's latest decision?
• Media Review: India's economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom in terms of size, making it the fifth largest in the world
• Samarkand Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Full text)
• The origins of covid-19: An appeal for an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2
• Orhan Miroglu: “a meeting between Erdogan and Assad on the sidelines of the Shanghai summit in Samarkand was on the schedule”
• Reuters agency: The head of the Turkish intelligence service held several meetings with his Syrian counterpart in Damascus during the past few weeks
• Chechen troops arrive in Zaporozhye region
• What is the Shanghai Organization and what are its goals?
• Two former US diplomats: Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn't Following Us on Ukraine
• Lavrov receives Hamas delegation headed by Ismail Haniyeh
• Will the Chechen armed forces help the Russian military regain control in Ukraine?
• Russia forces in Ukraine concede territories previously under Russian control; blame tactical error for their losses in the east
• There will be no new agreement reviving the Iran Deal until after the November elections in the US, if ever
• Russia’s war strategy in Ukraine and the role of the Chechen armed forces
• From the Croatian capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Ukrainian grain is exported to rich countries but not poor ones
• Russian-Chinese agreement: “Siberia Power” gas payments in rubles and yuan
• Macron: Dialogue with Russia must continue; Iran: Iran: A senior European president asked Iran's president, Raisi, to mediate in the Ukrainian crisis
• Russia's Complex and complicated relations with Iran--Religion, communism, Islam, Gorbachev, Khomeini, Putin and Khamenei
• Environmental degradation is a crime whose effects are disproportionately shouldered by the poor and the future of humanity--the childen
• Muqtada al-Sadr's attempts to form a goverment to his liking reached a deaded so he decided to retire from politics; What are the reasons that prompted Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr to retire now?
• Accusations exchanged between Bashagha and Dabaiba over the victims of the Tripoli clashes
• Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune meeting with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron
• Damascus breaks its silence: This is our plan for normalization with Ankara
• Dmitry Medvedev predicts the outcome of the war in Ukraine: Victory or military coup--Tertium non datur
• "Tasnim": Assad and Erdogan may meet at the Shanghai summit in Uzbekistan
• Pakistan: Charges of terrorism against Imran Khan and prevents broadcasting of his speeches
• Who is Alexander Dugin, who is described as Putin's brain, and whose daughter Daria was killed by Car Bomb in Moscow?
• European Union's foreign policy chief: Iran's response to the European proposal on the nuclear deal "reasonable"
• Erdogan: America and the coalition are fueling terrorism in Syria, and dialogue with Damascus is not excluded
• The War in Ukraine creates new tends: Proliferation of weapons and widening of conflict areas
• The reconciliatory comments issued by Turkish officials towards Damascus continue; The head of the Turkish "National Movement" Party Devlet Bahçeli announces his support for the foreign minister's statements on Syria and calls for raising the level of dialogue with Damascus
• Mass demonstrations in northern Syria condemning Ankara's call for "reconciliation" between the government and the opposition
• Journalism, Where Bias Comes From?
• Tehran: EU proposal to revive nuclear talks may be 'acceptable'
• The Russian Embassy in Cairo accuses Lapid of lying and contempt for the Palestinians
• Turkish media: Erdogan and Assad may hold talks at the suggestion of Putin; US Media: Turkey builds "Bayraktar" aircraft factory in Ukraine
• A Saudi prince claims Western bias, comparing the wars in Ukraine and Gaza
• UAE backs China on Taiwan, condemns 'provocative visits' after Pelosi trip
• Türkiye, Russia to work against terror groups in Syria; Erdoğan confirms the payment of Russian natural gas in rubles
• Putin and Erdogan agreed to buy Turkey part of Russia's gas in rubles; Kadyrov to visit Turkey
• China’s defense ministry issues fresh, rare warning ‘action the most powerful language’ over Pelosi’s Taiwan visit; reinforces resolve
• Pentagon: Ukraine strike on POW detention center 'unintended'
• The president of the Chechen Republic, Kadyrov, addresses Kyiv authorities: Our fighters will come to you soon
• Punjab province election results show that Imran Khan, forced out prime minister of Pakistan, is not going anywhere
• Lavrov criticizing the dependence on the US “dollar” to support the global economy: The globe is going through an important historical period and people will have to choose the type of world they want to live in
• Putin, Erdogan and Raisi meeting raises concerns for German Foreign Minister
• Religion and Culture, emerging Chechen Islam': Muslims in Russia bring home an Olive Tree linked to the Prophet Muhammad and produce the first hand-written Quran
• IMF: Europe is suffering more than expected, and Russia is less than expected
• Macron denounces the African position on the Russian operation, describing it as "hypocrisy"
• Muhammad Al-Sudani, candidate for the final coordination framework for the prime minister of Iraq
• Prospects For The Referendum On The New Draft Constitution And Its Challenges In Tunisia
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talks about the upcoming convening of the Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum, and points out that "the Russian military operation in Ukraine continues"
• This is why so many people believe the label “fake news”, to be a valid description to US mainstream news media
• Lavrov before his African tour: Russia and Africa continue to reduce the shares of the dollar and the euro in their dealings; military missions in Ukraine is now beyond Donbass region
• The Week in Headlines: News Coverage of current events, which stories matter, and which do not
• Russian authorities set to allow new non-credit financial institutions specialising in Islamic banking.
• Tony Blair: The world is on the verge of geopolitical changes; the era of Western hegemony is nearing its end
• What is the "sharia economy in Indonesia"?
• Iran's President, Raisi: Iran's positions on the nuclear deal are right, and we will not retreat from them
• Iran to obtain full membership in The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
• Days before Putin's visit to Tehran, Iran inaugurates the North-South International Corridor
• Putin visits Iran to participate in a summit with Erdogan and President
• SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds
• 27 years later, an apology for the Srebrenica Genocide
• President Tebboune receives President Abbas and Haniyeh in a meeting on the sidelines of Algeria's Independence Day Celebrations
• Heads of Caspian Sea states agree to use the sea for peaceful purposes; Putin: Joint exploitation of oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea is already underway; Raisi: Cooperation between Caspian countries is of increasing importance due to international developments
• Iran, Argentina’s applications to BRICS will further define this block of nations
• Media Review: The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
• How is the war in Ukraine being fought?
• As Russian forces make rapid advances, encircling large enclaves, many Ukrainian fighters surrender
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi: Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on holding new meetings with Raisi
• Oil is thicker than blood: Erdogan and bin Salman agree to start a 'new era' of cooperation
• The challenges of building national, regional and global secirity systems
• Message to US: China not hesitate to start war
• Putin: Energy and food problems are the result of the West's wrong policies; All objectives of the Russian military operation in Ukraine will be achieved
• Chechen leader says his forces have deployed to Ukraine; why and how?
• Algeria suspends friendship treaty with Spain amid Western Sahara tensions
• More Chechen fighters are heading for the Donbass region, Ukraine
• Some Lebanese politicians and their outside backers may have celebrated too soon
• Results of the Lebanese Parliamentary Elections (partial)
• Medvedev warns of 10 catastrophic consequences of sanctions against Russia
• Tamim bin Hamad in Tehran: Foreign intervention in West Asia is rejected
• Sherine Abu Aqleh, Al-Jazeera correspondent in occupied Palestine, was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp
• Esper's diary: Trump relied on fabricated and misleading information to target Soleimani
• Lavrov in Algiers to thank "the Algerian brothers for their position on the Russian operation in Donbass"
• Macron: Peace will not be achieved in Ukraine by humiliating Russia
• Indonesia refuses to supply arms to Ukraine
• Moscow and Tehran sign a comprehensive agreement in the field of transport
• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres walks in war zone characterizes the war in Ukraine as “absurd”, could see his own “grandchildren running in terror.”
• Putin: Any country or party interfering with what is happening in Ukraine would make Russia "respond harshly"
• Russia draws new rules of engagement: British weapons making their way Ukraine, if used to attack targets in Russia, will be responded to by attacks on "decision-making positions in Kyiv"
• Russia Is Making Even More Money on Energy under Sanctions Regime; Ukrainian Finance Minister: embargo would raise prices so high that Russia could still earn significant revenue from oil and gas sales elsewhere
• German Central Bank: Boycotting Russian gas will cost the country 180 billion euros
• Turkish FM says some NATO states want Ukrainian war to continue
• Putin announces the "liberation" of Mariupol; Kadyrov's forces shown in house-to-house clearing of the city
• China signs the security agreement with the Solomon Islands, drawing criticism from the US and Australia
• Wall Street Journal: Saudi Arabia pushed the Yemeni president to step down, and he was detained at his home in Riyadh and his contacts were restricted
• Chechen Special Purpose Police Regiment in Ukraine
• Tehran in response to an American report on human rights: Washington is the biggest violator of human rights
• Irked by Kyiv cancellation of German President's Visit to Ukraine, Olaf Scholz says he won't visit Ukraine Soon
• Arrest of opposition figures in Russia and Ukraine get different coverage in Western media
• Qatar, Iran sign aviation agreements; discuss the feasability of tunnel linking the two coutnries
• India: "Our purchases in a whole month may be less than what Europe buys in one afternoon"; US: "an increase in human rights violations by some officials in India"
• Mass demonstrations in support of Imran Khan in Pakistan's capital and other cities
• Is US, UK, and Australia cooperation to develop hypersonic weapons under AUKUS alliance driving China to support Russia in its war in Ukraine?
• China send a fleet of Y-20 transport planes loaded with missiles to Serbia
• A Shocking 99% of Us Are Now Breathing Unhealthy Air, WHO Warns
• Paper: Turkish government exploring plans to "initiate a dialogue with the Syrian government"
• A Chicago synagogue officially designates itself 'anti-Zionist'
• See how almost a quarter of humanity ushered in Ramadan, their holiest month
• With Russia is working on developing more trade with the ruble, the Dominance of US Dollar will be reduced
• Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval in Russia rises while Biden's drops in US
• Saudi Arabia announces the cessation of military operations in Yemen
• Built by an Unknown Culture, This Is The Oldest Sun Observatory in The Americas
• Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, just waiting to not be used
• Ukrainian government representatives appear to accept Russia's demands, including neutral status, disarmament, and non-NATO membership
• The many ways Ukraine war exposed Western racism and double standard: Paris to Russia: the satirical cartoon is “Unacceptable”
• Russia-Ukriane War, after 1 month of fighting: about 1 Russian solier dead for every 10 Ukrainians, plus global economic costs
• Adding to at least 3 other indepedent reports with the same conclusion, aUN Human Rights Report Says Israel Guilty of ‘Apartheid’
• In the first visit of its kind... the Chinese Foreign Minister arrives in Kabul
• FBI Documents Link Saudi Spy to Attacks on 9/11
• On the anniversary of the outbreak of the events that led to his islation by Gulf States, President Assad of Syria visits the UAE
• View from China: China sends tough signal ahead of Xi-Biden talk to set firm position on bilateral ties, Ukraine issue
• Saudi Arabia executes 81 people in one day; No reaction from Western Democracies
• The West has instrumentalized human rights for its benefits and conveniently ignored it otherwise
• China delivers first J-10CE fighter jets to Pakistan in a milestone move
• Welcome To Ukrainistan
• Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan to Western leaders: "We are not your Slaves"
• After SoS, Blinken appeared to geenlight Poland sending fighter jets to Ukraine, the Pentagon clarifies: ‘No Decisions Made’
• China seeks clarification from the United States on military biological activities
• Media bias or media doing what it has always done: mainstream propaganda
• How the world covers the war in Ukraine
• Federal Supreme Court of Iraq Ruling: Oil and Gas Law is unconstitutional
• 2:31 A Week In Review: January 23, 2022 world news recap
• Afghanistan under Taliban, replenishing the military with Taliban fighters
• Afghan caretaker foreign minister visits Tehran, Iran
• Afghanistan’s Taliban leader Issues a Decree on Rights of Women
• Ford: Assad won the war and Washington failed to unite the opposition
• Saudi Arabia: The Hariri and Khashoggi files are an example of media failure
• Two competing stories about the US-Iranian armed forces confrontation in Sea of Oman
• Bin Salman kidnaps Lebanon and asks the Gulf states to exert maximum political and commercial pressure: Saudi Arabia is losing in Marib and attacking in Beirut
• To limit Iran's influence in Syria, US should lift sanctions on Syria, Putin tells Bennett
• Sanaa Government Likely to impose and end to the war with its imminent control over the richest province in Yemen
• What Authority Does The President Have Under Article 80 Of The 2014 Constitution Of Tunisia?
• Despite "confirmed war crimes of willful killing, torture, and rape," the ICC closes probe into abuse of Iraqis by British troops
• What US 2020 Elections tell us about Americans’ values systems
• Aisha Bakari Gombi: a terror to the terrorists
• Full text and summary of the 25-year China-Iran deal covering Trade and Military Collaboration
• Historians expose early scientists' debt to the slave trade
• Full text of the Sochi Memorandum on Northern Syria signed by Putin and Erdogan
• Full text of Turkey, US statement on northeast Syria
• German Foreign Minister calls for economic system independent of US: Maas wants EU own SWIFT system
• Saudi authorities arrest Sheikh Safar Ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Hawali, and sons, for criticizing rulers domestic and foreign policies
• Is the the presence of and military operations of Russia, the United States and Israel in Syria Legal?
• First Full-Time TV Reporter for a major network to wear Hijab in USA
• Plans to build a mobile prayer room for Muslim attending the Pyeongchang Winter #Olympics dropped
• Final communiqué of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress (Full Text)
• Saudi Arabia has committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law
• Fake images in #IranProtests: Iran's karate woman and the boy who's still alive, Bahrain protesters in Tehran, etc
• Media reports: Chinese special forces, Dark Night Tiger, deployed in Syria
• Who armed ISIS? A three year study provides some answers
• From Saudi Arabia, an ambitious prince is putting Southwest Asia on Edge
• 270,000 Flee Myanmar in Two Weeks: UN Migration Agency in Bangladesh Scales Up Emergency Response
• The Rohingya Genocide
• BRICS nations have expressed concern about Pakistan-based militant groups
• UN report on yemen humanitarian crisis: “Either stop the war or fund the crisis. Option three is, do both of them”
• Syrian army on the verge of ending ISIL's siege of the city of Deir Ezzor
• Almost all of Germany's 4.7 million Muslims feel connected to the German society... the feeling is apparently not mutual
• And the winner is: Assad
• 602,759 displaced Syrians returned home in first 7 months of 2017 according to reports from UN Migration Agency
• what will China do if the U.S. or North Korea launch first strike?
• 'Islam is in a transformative process'
• Saudi Arabia signals a shift in its policy, advises the Syrian opposition faction it supports to come up with new strategy guided by the fact that Assad will be in power for the foreseeable future
• U.S. to handover Tanf base to Russia, attempt to collect weapons it gave Syrian rebels, many are surrendering to Syrian armed forces
• US Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk links Ankara to terror groups in Syria, Turkey angrily denies it
• Hezbollah takes journalists in Lebanon on a tour to prove Trump wrong
• Arizona Muslim woman running for Senate is told, "We hate your filthy death cult"
• President Macron: France is no longer insisting on the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad from power
• Google Academics Inc., financial support for academics and policy experts to influence public opinion in favor of Google
• Iranian cancer researcher detained at Boston airport despite valid visa
• Trump just ended a long tradition of celebrating Ramadan at the White House
• President Emmanuel Macron Reverses France's Syria Policy: No legitimate successor to Assad
• Facts and Biases: "Mass shootings are terrorism when perpetrated by Muslims"
• Erdoğan wants Turkish military bases in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, condemns “Iranian expansionism” in the Middle East
• Trump cancels Obama’s deal with Cuba
• Trump’s Sword Dance Sets Off the War of the Wahhabis
• Trump wants to defeat "radical Islamist extremism", he also wants Saudi Arabia, which "is destabilizing the world", to lead
• UN: 'Staggering' civilian deaths from US-led air strikes in Raqqa
• Saudi Media publish photos of Erdogan with Hikmatyar from 1985; Is Turkey going to be punished for standing with Qatar?
• Syrian and Iraqi forces reach the Syrian Iraqi Border, near al Tanf for the first time
• Saudi minister says no evidence that Saudis behind Iran attack
• Turkish parliament approves bill to deploy troops in Qatar
• At least 12 killed in terrorist attack in Tehran, ISIL claims responsibility
• Dissent is haram in Gulf Nations: Sympathizing with Qatar will cost people living in UAE up to 15 years in prison
• A simple question about Saudi Arabia and Democracy causes brain-freeze of Senior State Department official
• Trump's first trips abroad leave a trail of destruction among US allies: Qatar and Saudi Arabia crisis may cause GCC breakup
• Saudi Arabia and terrorism: more than 94 percent of deaths caused by Islamic terrorism since 2001 were perpetrated by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other Sunni (Wahhabi] jihadists
• Trump's Sword dancing and saber rattling in Saudi Arabia, homeland of nearly all of the 9/11 attackers
• Saudi Arabia working to impress Donald Trump on his first overseas visit
• Turkish leaders feel betrayed by the Trump administration's choosing Kurdish fighters as partners in its fight against ISIS over Turkey
• UN scrutinizes Saudi Arabia's anti-terror laws and Prince Turki Al-Faisal's alternative facts
• Here is why no government should ever be trusted with human rights protection: governments are always the culprit when it comes to HR abuses
• Trump: Saudi Arabia must pay for US protection... Saudi Arabia has not treated us fairly
• Saudi youth agitate protesting lack of jobs and corruption; government restores perks to state employees to fend off unrest
• Trump keeps Syria-Sarin Evidence secret
• How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
• How many alternative facts could the spokesperson for this White House, Sean Spicer, pack in 3 sentences? answer: 3
• Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, on the US attack on Syria: not based on facts
• Sacha Llorenti's statement at the emergency UN Security Council meeting on Syria April 7, 2017
• Scotland Yard is looking into allegations of war crimes against Saudi Arabia, committed in Yemen
• British activist Sam Walton‏, @SamWalton, attempted to citizen's-arrest the Saudi Major General, Ahmed Asiri, accusing him of war crimes in Yemen.
• Turkey criticizes move to raise Kurdish flag in Iraq
• Families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in terror attacks
• Saudi Arabia: 'Trump is a true friend of Muslims'
• For self-proclaimed "servant" the Saudi King, Salman, will be spending lavishly living large in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Japan, China, the Maldives and Jordan
• Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport: ‘Are you Muslim?’
• UN: The purpose of the Geneva IV conference on Syria is to implement the terms of UNSC Resolution 2254
• ‘This is not Trump’s America!’: Passengers rejoice when man accused of racism is kicked off flight
• Like many new American veterans, I owe my life to Muslims: Trump’s executive order is un-American, dishonorable and severely harmful to U.S. national security
• On the agenda: Islam-Free America
• POTUS loses again: Appeals court maintains the freeze on Muslim Ban
• #MuslimBan could cost Boeing $20 billion, 100,000 U.S. jobs lost
• #MuslimBan: Trump justifies his anti-Muslim views and actions by the fact that his rhetoric won him “standing ovations”
• German international magazine, der spiegel, publishes a dossier about Trump's presidency, the illustrative image is astounding
• The psychology of why 94 deaths from terrorism are scarier than 301,797 deaths from guns
• Darmstadt release Anis Ben-Hatira over link to Salafism
• Full text of Astana Statement on Syrian Settlement
• Turkey no longer insists on Assad's ouster
• Erdogan says he has evidence US-led coalition has given support to Isis
• The Cross Shield: ISIS burns Turkish soldiers alive
• Armed groups in Syria shell Aleppo after withdrawal, killing three civilians
• The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being
• Joint statement on Syria by Iran, Russia, Turkey's Foreign Ministers
• Who killed the Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov in Turkey and why?
• Media coverage: More evidence suggest that Aljazeera and the government of Qatar enabled war crimes in Syria
• In Aleppo, as in Mosul, all sides committed war crimes
• Egypt accuses Qatar of providing sanctuary to individuals who financed the bomb attack on church in Cairo
• US will not sell weapons to Saudi Arabia
• #Aleppo: About 50,000 civilians have fled the rebel enclave over the past two days
• #Syria, #Aleppo: Celebrations as families return to homes in Aleppo
• Is Recep Tayyip Erdogan becoming a liability for Turkish foreign policy and economy?
• Detainees beaten, tortured and raped Turkey under Erdogan leadership
• Are European countries planning to censor media outlets they don't like?
• Qatar will continue to support terrorists in Syria with or without U.S.
• Disturbing video out of Mosul, Iraq, raises concerns: charred bodies suggest use of illegal weapons or abuse of human dignity
• Transcript of Assad's interview with Portuguese RTP TV
• Why Everything You Hear About Aleppo Is Wrong
• UN envoy Mistura 'appalled' by rebel attacks on civilians in government controlled Aleppo
• Erdogan wants Mosul, Kirkuk, and Aleppo to be part of Turkey, destroying Kurdish aspirations for independent homeland
• Is Erdoğan creating a powerful presidential system that will be used against him and his party?
• Full text of Syrian President's interview with Swiss TV journalist
• Saudi Arabia said it bombed funeral hall because it received "incorrect information"
• Under international law, U.S. might be liable for crimes committed by Saudi Arabia in #Yemen
• Saudi Arabia bombed hall packed with mourners killing and injuring hundreds of people in Sanaa, Yemen
• Assad: If I were the cause, the war would have started in 2000 when I became president not in 2011 when Qatar started funding regime change agendas
• Lavrov: Not once has the U.S. military hit al-Nusra positions, U.S. is protecting Jihadists in Syria
• Russian Foreign Ministry makes public four out of the five documents that are part of Russia's agreement with US on Syria
• According to UN, Saudi Arabia is responsible for killing 60% of children and use of white phosphorus yet the media ignore its war on Yemen
• ISIL calls ISIS calls Erdoğan, beheads one of his alleged spies
• 170 new prisons will be built in Turkey to accommodate more than 100,000 inmates
• "Islamic State" (ISIL. ISIS, IS) terrorists release sickening video depicting the slaughtering of people accused of spying in Deir al-Zour
• Grozny Conference: The First International Conference Dedicated To Answering The Question: Who Are The Sunnis?
• Isis fighter reveals group's plan to spread even after defeat in Iraq and Syria and claims collusion with Turkey
• Does Saudi Arabia support extremism and terrorism?
• Ahead of the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set down for an interview with TASS
• Native Deen Uses Rap to Combat Stereotypes About Islam
• Who supplied the Syrian rebels with weapons and munitions?
• Will Jaysh al-Fath merge with other Salafi armed groups to create a "sunni" army?
• Erdogan: West supporting terrorism, coups
• Body of Russian pilot is dragged through the dirt and stamped on after helicopter is shot down by Syrian rebels
• Turkish minister: 95% of the Turkish people believe Gulen is behind the coup....
• Rights group: There is"credible evidence" that Turkey has tortured hundreds of people detained following the July 15 coup attempt
• Confirming what was rumored in 2013, Saudi Arabia Offered Russia influence in the Middle East in return for dropping its support for Assad
• Why were 28 pages of the 9/11 commission report classified for over 13 years?
• Fighters from US-backed Syrian rebel group beheads child in Aleppo, Syria
• Amnesty: Syrian rebels guilty of war crimes
• Chilcot Report on Iraq War: Devastating critique of Tony Blair and his government
• Who killed 150 to 250 ISIS fighters and destroyed their vehicles near Fallujah?
• U.S. ally, Bahrain, rearrests top human rights activist Nabeel Rajab
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: Saudi Arabia blackmails UN, "no money unless the Kingdom is removed from the blacklist"
• Saudi-led military coalition added to UN's blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in Yemen
• Saudi Arabia to behead 14 people--under "haraba" law
• Dalai Lama: 'Refugees Go Home... Germany should never be an Arab country"
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: ISIL's cruelty as catalyst for positive social change in Syria and Iraq
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: rights NGO says "Syrian refugees beaten, shot by Turkish border guards"
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : Flying while brown in the age of trump
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: Lavrov says U.S. tried to include Nusra controlled areas in "cease fire" deal
• Biden: How can Israel be democratic and Jewish at the same time
• Saudi Arabia threatens U.S. over 9/11 legislation: will sell $750 billion worth of assets held inside U.S.
• Hiroshima survivors look to Obama visit for disarmament, not apology
• One of the authors of U.S. Senate Report on 9/11: Saudi government supported the hijackers who carried out the September 11th attacks
• For a self-declared mere "servant" of holy places, the Saudi king makes his state visit to Turkey in Style: 500 luxury cars, 450-square meter King Suite with bullet proof windows
• If U.S. Intervention in Libya is Obama's "Worst Mistake", allowing U.S. allies, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, to intervene in Syria ought to be his second "worst mistake
• Military Historian Agrees with Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton is an Unreconstructed Hawk
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen has made al-Qaeda stronger – provided it with a mini-state in south-East Yemen
• If true, report of "U.S., Russia Said to Team Up to Draft New Syria Constitution" proves once more that Syria's war was a proxy war
• #IslamicsocietiesReview: #Erdogan Says Obama Lied and claims that the press is free in Turkey
• While Obama calls Erdogan's treatment of journalists 'very troubling', his body guards attacked journalists calling one "PKK whore"
• Saudi Arabia Uncovered
• Jordan's king accuses Turkey of sending terrorists to Europe; Turkey is deliberately 'unleashing' Isis terrorists into Europe, says Jordan's King Abdullah
• UN: Most civilian casualties in Yemen were caused by Saudi Arabia's attacks
• #IslamicSocietiesReview: Obama: "Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family"
• Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France: First Archaeological, Anthropological and Palaeogenomic Evidence
• Majoritarianism-driven democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey
• Responding to UNSC expression of "grave concern for the worsening situation in Yemen", Saudi Arabia says: no dire humanitarian crisis
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : As human rights organizations charge Saudi Arabia of war crimes, European Parliament calls for arms embargo
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : BBC report, al-Qaeda in Yemen on the same front as the Saudi Coalition
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : Start Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom
• Saudi Arabia is no state at all: Preparing for its Collapse
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : Turkey blames Kurdish militants for Ankara bombing
• #IslamicSocietiesReview : Turkey sends 2000 rebels with heavy weapons into Syria
• #ISR: World War 3 is now taking place in Syria, Turkey pushes for direct confrontation between nuclear powers--and that won't happen
• #ISR: Weaponry delivered to Syria's FSA by the U.S.-led coalition have fallen into the hands of Ahrar al-Sham and al-Nusra
• #ISR: Chemical weapons had been used by ISIL (#daesh) fighters
• Turkey at odds with Russia and now the US on Syria: Turkey strikes Syrian airport when it fell under the control of US supported rebels, but did not bomb it when it was under the control of al-Nusra
• Kerry says Russia should stop targeting "legitimate opposition" in Syria
• The rulers of Saudi Arabia insist that they will remove #Assad by any means necessary
• Erdogan traded Syrian refugees for money, visa-free travel to Europe, the inclusion of Turkish officials in EU summits, and a re-invigoration of Turkey's EU accession process
• #ISR , #HumanRights; Department of Defense released 198 photos relating to prisoner abuse by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is furious over a senior U.S. official’s visit to northern Syria
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Latin American Protesters: "As you can see there can be disrespectful people"
• Riyadh-based opposition groups are not interested in lifting the siege on civilians, they are interested in leveraging humanitarian crises for military and political grains
• Greek soccer players' tribute to the refugees
• German paper: pro-Saudi Syrian group's "main task is to disrupt the peace conference mediated by the UN"
• UN: Saudi strikes on Yemen civilians may be crimes against humanity
• Rulers of Saudi Arabia "gifted" Malaysia's PM Najib Razak to support him in his "election campaign" against the Muslim Brotherhood
• Israel's defense minister: Islamic State "enjoyed Turkish money for oil"
• Iraqi lawmakers accused the new Saudi ambassador of meddling in domestic affairs
• Saudis Bankroll CIA Backing of Syrian Rebels
• While U.S. and Russia are pushing for Syria peace talks, some regimes, including Saudi Arabia's and Turkey's, are putting roadblocks
• Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia: The game of chess is prohibited [haram]
• Indirectly confirming Turkey's implicit support for ISIL, U.S. official calls on Turkey to "do more" in anti-ISIL fight
• Showing the growing strategic difference with the US and converging interests with Saudi Arabia: Israeli DM declares that he prefers ISIS to Iran
• Why Al Jazeera America Was Destined to Fail
• Academics, jurists and students support colleagues targeted by Turkish government
• Richest 1% will own more than all the rest of humanity by 2016
• U.S. and Iran release Iranian and American prisoners, Obama pardons Iranians charged with sanctions violations
• Wheaton College seeks to fire Christian professor for saying that "Muslims and Christians worship the same God"
• UNICEF: Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen impacting nearly 10 million children
• Istanbul suicide bomber identified as Saudi, not Syrian, as previously speculated
• Emails expose close ties between Hillary Clinton and accused war criminal Henry Kissinger
• Erdoğan to 1,128 academics: You are not enlightened persons, you are dark
• "I urge you to vote for Donald Trump because... We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump”
• Fake Images of Crisis in Syria’s Madaya politically motivated
• Mohammed bin Salman is the most dangerous man in the world: aggressive and ambitious
• UN head warns Saudi use of cluster bombs in Yemen could be war crime
• Stoking sectarian fires in the Middle East could be Saudi Arabia's biggest mistake
• After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine
• Turkey’s silence on Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric
• Riyadh 'In Serious Trouble': Saudi Aggression Stems From Global Isolation
• Saudi Arabia beheads 43 and fusillades 4 in one day including Shia cleric
• Turkey's Erdogan says Hitler's Germany exemplifies effective presidential system
• U.S. Should Stop Supporting Likely Saudi War Crimes
• State Department: US Has Concerns About Jaish al-Islam, but...
• Seymour Hersh report on Syria: White House knew US was arming Islamic State
• Bizarre news: Erdoğan talks man out of suicide on Bosporus bridge
• Rights group: Nigerian soldiers kill hundreds of Shiites
• UN: Saudi-led coalition behind most attacks on civilians in Yemen
• Returnee Says IS Recruiting for Terror Attacks in Germany
• About 60% of fighters in rebel factions in Syria identified with a religious and political ideology similar to that of ISIS
• Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 2254 (2015), Endorsing Road Map for Peace Process in Syria, Setting Timetable for Talks
• Furor over Arabic assignment leads Virginia school district to close today
• Saudi anti ISIS coalition is a work of fiction
• Why are other Muslim countries like, Indonesia and Algeria, not in the Saudi-led Sunni coalition against terror?
• Russia: person who shot the Russian pilot of Su-24 warplane was Turkish, son of former mayor, not Syrian rebel
• The most prominent Muslim elected official in America sees a ‘message of hope’ in Trump’s ‘weakness’
• 72 percent of total Twitter content removal requests were made by Turkey
• Donald Trump's Muslim ban plan plunges Republican party into chaos ... American Muslims react
• London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, says allies should join Assad and Russia against Isis
• German vice-chancellor accuses Saudi Arabia of funding Islamic extremism in the West
• Turkey shot down Russian jet for allegedly violating its sovereignty for 17 seconds, violates Iraq's sovereignty by sending its troops to establish a permanent base
• European companies are providing the terrorist organization, ISIL, Internet access by satellite dish
• Bahçeli calls on president Erdoğan to heat palace with dung instead of gas
• German intelligence warns: Saudi Arabia "destabilizing Arab world", funding jihadist groups fighting in Syria, including Daesh
• Worried that Russia may cut export of natural gas, 55% of Turkey's need, Erdoğan says Turks can do without gas, but rushes to ask Qatari Emir for help, just in case
• Russian military provides evidence for Putin's claim that Syrian and Iraqi oil under ISIL's control is sold in Turkey
• Obama confirms Russia's claim that ISIL moves fighters and oil through Turkey
• Erdogan's Mistake: Russia May Now Initiate Own 'No-Fly Zone' Over Syria
• Turkey's changing explanation for shooting down Russian jet harming its standing, exposing its double standard, and strengthening Syrian government
• UK could be prosecuted for war crimes over missiles sold to Saudi Arabia that were used to kill civilians in Yemen
• The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict
• "Turkey gave no warning" before shooting down the Russia plane
• Turkish government uses Syrian Turkmens to try again for a buffer zone inside Syria, Turkmen leader says Syrian government is not a threat, Terrorists are
• ISIL assembling chemical weapons team, preparing for attacks with chemical weapons
• ‘Rabid’ dogs and closing mosques: Anti-Islam rhetoric grows in GOP
• Ivy League universities and the legacy of racism
• US Republican Senator for the State of Virginia Richard Black sent letter to Syrian president praising his 'dramatic strides against terrorists'
• What about Beirut? Is there a double standard in Western media?
• Russian President Vladimir Putin: 40 countries, including those among the G-20, finance ISIL
• Saudi King Salman makes extravagant entrance to Antalya, Turkey, to attend G-20 Summit: Some 400 luxury cars and 546 rooms
• Saudi execution toll highest in two decades, according to Amnesty International report
• Contrary to Erdogan wishes, 57% of Turkish citizens prefer parliamentary system
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's priorities: make me king
• Kuwait Court Jails Five over ISIL Fundraising
• JOINT STATEMENT: Final declaration on the results of the Syria Talks in Vienna as agreed by participants
• World’s ‘poorest’ president, Mujica, hosted in Turkey, whose president, Erdoğan, lives in a palace suited for the "richest"
• Saudi Arabia: Assad must go through political deal or by force... Syan must have new constitution and new elections
• After WikiLeaks release, Saudis warn against sharing 'fake' files
• Saudi Arabia set to resume flogging of Raif Badawi this Friday
• Iran Confirms Participation in Syrian Crisis Talks in Vienna
• Iran's invitation to Syria talks marks significant shift for US and allies
• Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that the invasion of Iraq helped the rise of ISIS
• Saudi Arabia hajj disaster death toll at least 2,121
• Turkey stikes ISIL for the first time; but launched dozens of strikes on Kurdish people since the first ISIL bombing attack on Turkish civilians
• Perpetrators of the Ankara Massacre were on the Turkish government's list of suspects with ties to ISIL
• Five leads pointing to ISIL as prime suspect of Ankara bombings
• Davutoglu: Islamic State, Kurdish militant factions or far-leftist radicals could all have carried out Saturday's bombing
• Trukish protesters gather at scene of Ankara bombings chanting anti-AKP slogans; number of dead rises to 95
• Suicide bombers kill 86 at pro-Kurdish rally in Turkish capital
• Tunisian mediator group wins Nobel Peace Prize for aiding move to democracy
• US lawmakers: "The Syria Train and Equip Program is now aiding the very forces we aim to defeat"; Obama Administration Ends Pentagon Program
• Amnesty accuses U.S. allies of committing war crimes and urges arms restrictions on Saudi-led coalition members
• Turkish police kill Hacı Lokman Birlik and drag his body in Şırnak
• UNICEF: Six months of violence in Yemen leave more than 500 children dead, some 1.7 million at risk of malnutrition
• Assad says Syria and allies will win, failure would be devastating
• Global Islamic Economy Summit 2015
• Friends of Syria Coaltion: Russia strikes 'will fuel extremism'
• Death toll from Saudi strike at Yemen wedding rises to 38
• Erdoğan defends Saudi Arabia after Hajj disaster, raises eyebrows
• Saudi rulers blame pilgrims for hajj deaths
• Report: US-trained rebels give equipment to al-Qaeda affiliate
• Hajj stampede: At least 717 killed in Saudi Arabia
• Russia may strike positions of the Islamic State fighters in Syria without any consent of the coalition states, unless US coordinates its acts
• Taking its cues from the U.S., France back tracks on its demand that Assad steps down
• Saudi-led coalition airstrikes kill up to 76 in Yemen
• Ben Carson Says a Muslim Shouldn’t Be President
• Kerry announces another Syria strategy change from London: Assad must go... but it doesn't have to be on day one or month one or whatever
• The United States had planned to topple the Syrian government, as early as 2006, long before conflict broke out
• General Austin: Only '4 or 5' US-Trained Syrian Rebels Fighting ISIS
• Civilians in Yemen and human rights organizations accuse Saudi Arabia and the U.S. of war crimes
• Why Gulf States Refuse to Accept Syrian Refugees
• What the Arab World Can Learn from Oman
• Point of View from China: Despite refugee crisis, wrangle over Syria sadly continues
• Hungarian nationalist TV camera operator filmed kicking refugee children
• GCC nations will continue to drop bombs "until [they] purge Yemen of the scum"... Qatar sends 1,000 ground troops to Yemen
• Wealthy Gulf Nation Official: "We should never allow refugees in our country"
• Obama to assure Saudi king of U.S. help to counter Iranian threat
• War on Yemen: How the Saudi-Led Coalition Is Killing Civilians
• Amnesty International: Saudi strike "kills 36 civilians" In Yemen, adding to the "bloody trail of civilian death"
• The U.S. government knows that Saudi Arabia has Used Cluster Bombs in Yemen
• European companies beat US to Iran business after nuclear deal reached
• Did Turkey tip off al Qaida in Syria about U.S.-trained group of Syrian fighters?
• Saudi rulers are not interested in fighting Al Qaeda and ISIL in Yemen
• Turkish mourners blame Erdogan, AKP for rise in violence
• Competing narratives of armed conflicts: Turkey corrects the BBC, "members of PKK are not militants, they are terrorists"
• Acknowleding Turkey's role in allow weapons and fighters to flow to ISIL, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter now says, "More needed from Turkey in Islamic State fight"
• ISIL calls for conquest of İstanbul, war against ‘treacherous’ Erdoğan
• U.S. trained Division 30 declares its loyalty to al-Qaeda branch in Syria
• Turkey, Iran relations tested by media wars
• U.S.: We really can’t succeed against ISIL without Turkey
• ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
• Did Sergey Lavrov call Saudi diplomats, including Adel al-Jubeir, F**** morons?
• Turkey: At least 6 security personnel killed in attacks in Istanbul, southeast region
• Turkey’s top religious body releases report on ISIL, names it ‘terrorist organization’
• The U.S. picked the wrong ally in the fight against Islamic State
• Judge Permits Professor Steven Salaita's Free Speech Case Against University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Proceed
• Obama gives a speech about the Iran nuclear deal (Full text)
• Saudi rulers' strategy is to be against Iran at every turn and to presume that Iran's hand is behind every negative act... this could really come back to haunt them
• Erdoğan is blocking the formation of coalition government to force an early elections that might give his AKP a majority this time
• Reports: Assad’s Security Adviser, Ali Mamlouk met Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammad Ibn Salman, in Riyadh
• Senior Western official: Links between Turkey and ISIS are now 'undeniable'
• Seattle mayor proposes sharia-compliant loans for Muslim home buyers
• Turkey's AKP run government may push for HDP’s closure to win in possible early elections
• Human Rights Watch on the War on Yemen: Coalition Strikes on Residence Unlawful, War Crime
• Quran Fragments, Said to Date From Time of Muhammad, Are Found in Britain
• At least 28 dead in suspected ISIL suicide bombing in Turkey's border with Syria
• Al Qaeda Fights on Same Side as Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen in support of Hadi
• WikiLeaks Cables Show a Saudi Obsession With Iran and interference in business of academic institutions around the world
• Israel Assassinated Senior Syrian Official
• Presidential News Conference on Iran Nuclear Deal -- JCPOA
• Obama Makes His Case on Iran Nuclear Deal
• The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed
• Saudi Arabia rejects UN declared cease-fire and continues bombing cities in Yemen, more civilians are killed
• Relentless Terror: The Everyday Horrors of the Islamic State... and ... The Allure of the Islamic State: Money and Status Attract Fighters
• Current Turkish government faces internal and external challenges as a consequence of its foreign policy miscalculations
• Erdoğan vows to prevent Kurdish state in northern Syria, as Iran warns Turkey
• ‘False legitimacy’: Saudi Arabia hosting UN Human Rights Council slammed by watchdog
• Western and Gulf States fuelled the rise of ISIL to weaken regimes they don't like
• Obama under pressure to release secret pages of 9/11 report 'showing Saudi Arabia financed attacks'
• Testimonies of arrested prosecutors show Turkey's giovernment had links with ISIL
• Turkish opposition parties' leaders accuse Erdoğan of using Quran and public fund to win votes
• Yemen tribes attack Saudi military post and using weapons to launch attacks on Saudi cities
• Losing my religion for equality
• One of the more important reasons for the Saudi War on Yemen: divert attention elsewhere and stifle internal dissent
• The role of Iraqi Baathist officers in ISIL's takeover of northern Syria and northern Iraq
• President Obama: Some Gulf States "fan the flames of military conflict" in Libya
• The Mysterious Saudi Prince Leading The War on Yemen
• Gulf states unhappy about U.N. chief's ceasefire appeal
• Hadi: A hollow president whose masters in Riyadh are killing us
• Pakistani minister rejects Gulf States' criticism of his country's neutral Yemen stance
• Pakistan and Turkey stay out of the war on Yemen but U.S.. expands its cooperation with Saudi Arabia
• US State Department: Houthis were arming themselves almost entirely through the black market, and purchase of arms from the Yemeni military
• Reports: Saudi grand Mufit ruled that it is legal, in his brand of Islamic law, for husband to eat his wife
• Obama: Gulf states biggest threat is from inside their own countries, not Iran
• Islamic State Promotional Magazine Baits 'Infidels' by Highlighting Child Executioners
• Saudi war on Yemen: 195 killed and injured at camp where displaced people sought refuge
• Qatar emir buys 100-mln-euro Bosporus mansion for wife
• Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen without UNSC authorization
• U.S. officials: Saudi Arabia building up military near Yemen border
• Report: Israel Spied On U.S.
• Obama Sends Iran a Nowruz Message, Calls Nuclear Talks a 'Historic Opportunity'
• Islamic State blamed for Tunisia attack after killing of Libyan cell leader
• Instability in Libya and fighters trained in Syria and Iraq returning to Tunisia might be behind the attack that killed 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in national museum in Bardo
• Ring brings ancient Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together
• Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State used chemical weapons against them
• Sweden has ended a military deal with Saudi Arabia over human rights issues, Saudi Arabia pressured Arab League to cancel Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström's speech
• Full Interview With Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
• Forms of cruel and unusual punishment in Saudi Arabia
• The Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet?
• Libye: le général Khalifa Haftar nommé commandant général de l'armée
• Turkey, Saudi Arabia agree to boost support to Syria opposition
• Who speaks for whom or for what: As the U.S. expresses concern over ‘deteriorating rights’ in Turkey, Turkish President Erdoğan slams Austria's controversial Islam law
• Headscarf case for the US Supreme Court, Court to consider accommodations for religiously devout employees: In Plain English
• New documents suggest that NSA and the UK’s Spy Agency Launch a Joint Cyberattack on Iran
• Grand Ayatullah al-Sayyid Ali al-Hussani al-Sistani: Advice and Guidance to the Fighters on the Battlefields
• Saudi cleric says Earth doesn’t revolve around itself
• Gulf States side with Qatar in its dispute with Egypt; Is the new Saudi King charting a new path?
• U.S. officials, in blunt language, say Israel is distorting reality of Iran talks
• Letter: UK artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel
• Slow progress: Legacy of racism claims new victims in the U.S.
• Syrian rebels call on Israel to bomb Hezbollah, Iran, Syria positions in southern Syria
• Security Council approves resolution targeting sources of financing for ISIL
• Erdoğan wants more power, so he asks for 400 deputies for his former AKP at Turkish elections -- Fethullah Gulen: Turkey’s Eroding Democracy
• At Prayer Breakfast, Obama Decries 'Distortions' of Faith to Justify Violence
• ISIL kills 3 of its Chinese members who attempted to leave
• More evidence about Saudi connections to terror organizations emerging at an increased rate
• No limits to ISIL cruelty: Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia facilited the funding and arming of fighters who eventually joined ISIL
• Jordan to Execute al-Qaeda Prisoners After ISIL Burns Pilot Taken Hostage
• How Americans really feel about Netanyahu and why it matters
• CIA and Mossad killed senior Hezbollah figure in car bombing
• New Saudi king announces major government shake-up
• Ancient Sea Rise Tale Told Accurately for 10,000 Years
• Debating Howard Dean's statement that Paris Terrorists "About as Muslim as I Am"
• Text of the "To the Youth in Europe and North America" issued by ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Jan. 21, 2015
• France has seen almost as many anti-Muslim acts since the Paris attacks earlier this month as in all of 2014
• Terrorism funding in Saudi Arabia, Gulf states
• Israeli source: We meant to target low-ranking guerrillas in Syria, not Iranian general
• Escape to Syria of Charlie Hebdo suspect shows Turkey’s role as jihadi highway
• Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself
• Saudi Arabia's history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
• French President Francois Hollande: "Muslims are the first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism and intolerance"
• Illegal arms shipments by the Turkish spy agency to opposition groups in Syria
• Saudi Arabia's 'outdated' brutality 'sparked by fear of online dissent,'
• Turkish officials add credence to accusations that Turkey is enabling passage of foreign fighters into Syria: suspect in Paris attacks was in Turkey and crossed into Syria
• From where does ISIL get its inspiration for cruel treatment of others? Look here: Saudi blogger Badawi 'flogged for Islam insult'
• Hezbollah chief says terrorists damage Islam more than cartoons
• Swedish rallies in support of Muslims draw thousands after mosques attacks
• Gunmen attack on French magazine, Charlie Hebdo
• ISIL fighters take aim at the Kingdom that produced them--killing and wounding three Saudi security agents along the Iraqi-Saudi border
• Transcript: President Obama's Full NPR Interview
• Over 60% of Tunisians able to vote voted; 56% of them voted for Beji Caid Essebsi, 44% voted for Mohamed Moncef Marzouki
• The bodies of more than 230 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) have been found in a mass grave in eastern Syria
• Qatar and Terror Finance
• ISIL origins roots are in U.S. prisons in Iraq
• Jordanian King Abdullah II: Muslim Brotherhood hijacked Arab Spring
• Erdoğan: You cannot bring women and men into an equal position; this is against nature
• In birthplace of Arab Spring, Tunisia’s Islamists get sobering lesson in governing
• Saudi state and the religious establishment have for decades fueled sectarian animosities across the region
• Obama says no change in Syria policy, removing Assad still not priority
• Bodyguard of Syrian rebel who defected to Isil reveals secrets of the jihadist leadership
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's "White Palace" is more than 1/2 billion US dollars and his jet is $185 million
• Moderate rebels in Syria that the US have armed and trained to fight jihadists have joined al-Qaeda
• U.S. officials calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "chickenshit"
• Davutoglu: Turkey will help in Kobane when the anti-ISIL coalition arm FSA to overthrow the Syrian Government
• Nidaa Tounes wins 38% of the seats in the Tunisian parliament
• Diplomacy for Erdoğan is very personal for, his closest friends are very small and embattled: Hamas and Qatar; and of course Massoud Barzani
• ISIL Using Banned Chemical Weapons in Kobani
• Battle for Kobani: Turkey's actions have revealed that it is pursuing its own contradictory political agenda
• From al-Qaeda affiliate to ISIL to "The Islamic State"
• ISIL fighters training to fly Syria warplanes
• ISIL, through its new flagship magazine called Dabiq, calls Erdogan Apostate and explains its slaughter of Kurds
• Turkey accused of denying Kurds medical help after preventing Syrian Kurds from returning to Kobane to fight ISIL
• UN's Staffan de Mistura urged Turkey to allow in volunteers to Syria to defend the town from Islamic State militants
• Isil hostage Peter Kassig: The point is that Isil is killing Muslims every day. Most of the victims of Isil are Muslims
• Turkey's Erdogan blackmails anti-ISIL coalition and kills 19 Turkish citizens
• Pro-ISIS radicals with machetes, knives attack Kurds in Germany
• AKP prefers ISIL over PKK and Assad government
• Ben Affleck angered over the negative, "incomplete" image that Maher and fellow guest, author Sam Harris, were painting of Muslims
• Qataris who financed 9/11 mastermind now funding terrorists in Syria and Iraq
• U.S. VP Joe Biden: Our biggest problem is our allies. Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria
• Qatar has pumped tens of millions of dollars through obscure funding networks to hard-line Syrian rebels and extremist Salafists
• SPEECH OF PRESIDENT CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ DURING THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 69th session
• U.S. senior official: The Syria policy people are so focused on taking down Assad, they were blind to this [ISIL] problem
• The United States use of drones strikes under President Obama
• Obama says US 'underestimated' rise of ISIS, admits 'contradictory' Syria policy
• 69th regular session of the General Assembly
• "funding different groups... frankly, a [was] sloppy process" of ousting Assad and led to ISIL’s rise, Kerry says
• US ties itself in legal knots to cover shifting rationale for Syria strikes
• Domestic and international legal authority for attacks on ISIL in Syria
• The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group called on "Muslims" to kill citizens of countries taking part in the US-led anti-ISIL coalition by any means
• Hezbollah Drones Target Al-Nusra Front's Positions at Syrian Border
• How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists
• Turkish President and Prime Minister offer different explanations for the release of the 49 Turkish hostages held by ISIL near Modul
• Airstrike Uncertainties: Obama's Dangerously Vague New War
• Transcript: Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif's Full NPR Interview: the net income of the United States from these sanctions
• Another "Islamic bank" is declared bankrupt; Erdoğan declares Bank Asya 'bankrupt' amid stock exchange chaos
• 'No good terrorists': Lavrov urges anti-ISIS coalition not to put political interests first
• Iran rejected US request for cooperation against ISIL
• Crisis meeting in Paris comes as France begins reconnaissance flights over Iraq and UK edges closer to military action
• ISIL, not Assad regime, is beheading people--Muslims and non-Muslims--Turkey's misleading moral equivalencies justify ISIL crimes
• David Cameron needs a new approach in Syria if he wants to destroy ISIL
• President Obama Addresses the Nation on the ISIL Threat
• Professor fired for Israel criticism urges University of Illinois to reinstate him
• Qatar and political power is leveraged by media and Islamism
• You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
• Eleven Planes Missing From Tripoli Airport After It Was Taken by Islamic Rebels
• Libya in Chaos: Vijay Prashad on Rise of Islamist Militias & Bloody Legacy of 2011 U.S. Intervention
• To impose their wahhabi interpretation of Islam, Saudi rulers, following the footsteps of ISIL, could destroy the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad and remove his body to an anonymous grave
• Rival second Libyan assembly chooses own PM as chaos spreads
• Can a religious/ethnic state be democratic? Can a religious state be anything but genocidal?
• German minister accuses Qatar of funding Islamic State fighters
• Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism; ISIS Atrocities Started With Saudi Support for Salafi Hate
• Was Putin right about Syria?
• James Foley 'beheading': West condemns 'barbaric' murder
• Saudi Top Cleric and Salafi Wahhabi authority: Qaeda, ISIL “Enemy No 1” of Islam
• The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race
• David Cameron: [War on ISIL] is a battle against a poisonous ideology that is condemned by all faiths and by all faith leaders, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim
• Maliki and other Iraqi policians are bickering about their rights to power while poor Iraqis are struggling to say alive; Yazidi victims of ISIS dying of thirst on mountains
• Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS
• Around 20,000 protesters marched through London waving Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans
• Hard choices for a gun-shy President: How Obama Evolved on the Issue of ‘Genocide’ in Iraq
• Gaza is a crime made in Washington as well as Jerusalem: The carnage unleashed on the Palestinians is part of a decades-old routine that depends on western support
• Who started the Gaza war, why, and how, Uri Avnery's account from inside Israel
• How to Fix It: Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas as a legitimate political actor.
• Out of a Job: Gaza war and academic freedom
• The Chancellor has criticised Lady Warsi's decision to resign over Britain's "morally indefensible" policy on the conflict in Gaza
• Outrage in Saudi Arabia at appearance of female newsreader without headscarf on state television
• Parliament was scene to yet another physical fight on Aug. 4, which apparently erupted due to tension stemming from the government’s policy regarding Iraqi Turkmens
• UN chief: Gaza school attack a 'criminal act'; Ban Ki-moon tells Israel to 'end this madness' after bombardment kills at least 10 people and injures dozens
• Israel's military censor wanted prior review of the New York Times' article on Second Lt. Hadar Goldin, a missing Israeli officer now believed dead
• Brian Eno on the Israel-Gaza crisis: How can you justify images such as this? and Peter Schwartz responds to Brian Eno's open letter on Israel-Gaza crisis
• SPIEGEL has learned from reliable sources that Israeli intelligence eavesdropped on US Secretary of State John Kerry during Middle East peace negotiations
• More than 1,000 Turks fighting for ISIL, "the Islamic Caliphate"
• American media's new pro-Israel bias: the same party line at the wrong time Evolving conversations on the ground demand probing questions on-air; So why does TV news look like a Netanyahu ad?
• White House's strongest and most explicit condemnation of Israel comes as Palestinian leaders prepare for talks on short ceasefire
• Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, at least 30 people, mostly women and children, were injured in what is believed to be an Israeli shelling
• Spain's leading film stars Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar and Javier Bardem are the latest major celebrities to go public with their views on the ongoing conflict in Gaza
• UN official condemns ‘in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces’
• Satellite images of Gaza show the devastation in the tiny Palestinian enclave
• Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League; the nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies
• Israeli Artillery Hits U.N.-Run School In Gaza
• Brazil Condemns Israel Offensive in Gaza, Recalls Ambassador
• Iraq leader Nouri al-Maliki 'rejected Iran's pressure to step down'
• Casualties of war on Gaza in perspective
• Israel's Netanyahu: They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.
• BRICS' Agreement on the New Development Bank
• Treaty for the Establishment of a BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement
• Israeli naval ship bombs Palestinian children on Gaza beach, killing four young children
• When Taliban thinks the "Islamic State" and its caliphate are extremists...
• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, emerged from the shadows to lead Friday prayers at Mosul’s Great Mosque, calling on the world’s Muslims to “obey” him as the head of the caliphat
• Foreign Minister Zebari: 'Iraq Is Facing a Mortal Threat'
• 'Caliph' al-Baghdadi: "Rome will be conquered next." Should't he wait until someone reinstate the Roman Empire?
• ISIL changes name and declares its territories a new Islamic state with 'restoration of caliphate' in Middle East
• Obama: There is no "moderate" Syrian opposition forces that could topple Assad
• A Country Implodes: ISIS Pushes Iraq to the Brink
• What do Iraqi Sunni want? ISIL and its allies have different agendas and different plans; but some want Sunni autonomous regions
• who is supporting ISIS? The Saudi rulers' struggle to remain consistent and the media coverage that shy away from calling them on it
• Saudi Arabia wants to remove Maliki by bullets when it failed to remove him by ballets
• Pentagon, State Dept. at odds over coordinating with Iran on Iraq crisis
• The killing season restarts in Iraq: more war crimes and crimes against humanity taking place in regions inhabited by religious minorities
• Iraq is now in the same struggle as Syria; can U.S., and Saudi Arabia solve the problem of one without the other?
• Battle to establish Islamic state across Iraq and Syria
• Interview with UN Peace Envoy Brahimi: 'Syria Will Become Another Somalia' ... armed group used chemical weapons ... are using civilians as human shields
• Iran president to visit Turkey Monday to meet Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
• Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar
• Echoing Syria's brutal civil war, dozens dead, morgues overflowing after siege turns one of Ukraine’s largest airports into a war zone
• Assad's staying power leaves Turkey frustrated and exposed
• House leaders nix bill that would give Obama power to kill Benghazi terrorists
• Who’s Killing Pakistan’s Shia and Why?
• Libyan Coup General Welcomes Protesters' Backing
• Leaders of the countries affiliated with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, gather in China, discuss security and economy issues
• Erdoğan allegedly punches a protester in Soma, his aide kicks a mourner
• Tunisie : arrestation du cyberactiviste Azyz Amami
• Inside the Arabic Islamic Institute in Tokyo
• New videos show more rebel groups in Syria have U.S.-made anti-tank missiles
• Death Stalks Muslims as Myanmar Cuts Off Aid
• al-Qaeda infighting shows that even if Assad is removed, Sunnis will countinue to suffer: 60,000 civilians forced to leave Islamist controlled areas
• Tunisian National Constituent Assembly approves new electoral law
• Breakthrough law strives to bring gender equality to Senegal’s government
• Syrian forces poised to recapture Homs after truce agreed with rebels
• Iraq’s Kurds Keep One Eye on Iraqi Elections, Another on Local Polls
• Secretary of State John Kerry: If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state
• Hemmed in by hate, last Muslims in Central Africa capital pray for escape
• U.N.: Hundreds of civilians killed in South Sudan ethnic massacre
• Syrian rebels in Homs: "We are killing them, those rotting carcasses"
• Jordanian ambassador seized in Libya, kidnappers demand prisoner release
• Erdoğan threatens judges, prosecutors in party group speech
• Turkey 'aided Islamist fighters' in attack on Syrian town: Rebels and eye-witnesses claim that Turkish authorities allowed fighters to enter Syria through a strategic border post to carry out assault on Armenian town of Kasab
• Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and other "moderate" Arabs meeting Israeli officials
• Gül-Erdoğan meeting inconclusive on top leaders' presidential plans
• Inside the FBI’s secret relationship with the military’s special operations
• Despite a New Constitution, the Fight for Gender Equality in Tunisia Continues
• Accepting the Other: Faith in Oman
• Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels: Erdoğan's men behind the chemical attack in Syria
• Le Pen: "Let them eat pork!"Jewish and Muslim schoolchildren will not be offered alternatives to pork dishes in towns run by National Front
• Iran, Russia working to seal $20 billion oil-for-goods deal: sources
• Tunisian PM, Mehdi Jomaa, to visit the United States and meet Obama first week of April
• Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in Ankara, starting late March 30 and ending early March 31, on the results of the local elections
• The US is paying the cost of supporting the House of Saud as cracks begin to appear
• Turkey, Erdogan, denounced as "villainous" the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing fabricating excuse for military action against Syria, blocks YouTube
• Hundreds of Armenian families had to flee Kessab in northern Syria after the latest incursion by Turkey-backed rebels
• Saudi Arabia’s new terrorism law and a series of related royal decrees create a legal framework that appears to criminalize virtually all dissident thought or expression as terrorism
• President Obama's Nowruz Message to the Iranian People (with Persian)
• Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower's leaks prompt US to make control of internet truly worldwide
• RUSSIA WARNS WEST IT MAY CHANGE ITS STANCE ON IRAN
• Syrian Rebels Offer to ‘Trade’ Golan to Israel for military support
• Islamic scholar Gülen calls conditions in Turkey worse than military coup
• Algeria on Sunday sent more anti- riot troops to the province of Ghardaia, vowing not to withdraw any units until calm has been restored
• Syrian government forces and Hezbollah seize border town of Yabroud
• Saudi Arabia bans 50 baby names
• UN criticizes US for human rights failings on NSA, guns and drones
• Thousands bid farewell to Gezi victim Berkin with anti-Erdoğan slogans
• Iran: Violence against Muslims in CAR is ‘genocide’
• Tutu explaining his support for Israeli Apartheid Week: Israel's humiliation of Palestinians 'familiar to black South Africans'
• Kofi Annan: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have supplied the “Syrian opposition” with money and arms
• Saudis, UAE, Bahrain withdraw envoys from Qatar in security dispute: the move will further undermine the coherence of the support that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar are providing rebels groups in Syria
• Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar
• The Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union: Islamist alliances have emerged to overshadow the rest
• President Barack Obama talks about Iran, the Middle East, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and U.S. foreign policy in general
• Bomb attacks by Sunni extremists in Lebanon have seen an increase in volunteers for the Shia militia that supports President Assad
• Report: Obama pushes Israel to stop assassinations of Iran nuclear scientists
• Jeff Bezos and the Imperial Paper; Washington Post’s prestige based on proximity to power
• A new (order) Ukraine? Assessing the relevance of Ukraine’s far right in an EU perspective
• We can get rid of Assad or fight al-Qaeda, but we can’t do both
• Iran’s Rouhani Puts U.S.-Saudi Ties to the Test
• Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denied the authenticity of the latest wiretap recording incriminating him of corruption during a Feb. 25 parliamentary group speech
• The ‘Islam is different’ argument
• Unanimously approved, Security Council resolution demands aid access in Syria
• The vicious schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years - and it's getting worse
• Word As Image: Contextualizing “Calligraffiti: 1984-2013″ with French-Tunisian Street Artist eL Seed
• What Nicholas Kristof gets wrong about public intellectuals
• Syria conflict and reconciliation: Enemies cross the front lines in Damascus. But will the truce hold?
• The Reason Behind All Wars Is Egoism
• The role of academics and public debates
• Gradual reforms fail in Morocco
• How Iowa Flattened Literature: With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers
• Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries
• Six Lessons from Iran’s Revolution
• New treatment for diabetes that could lead to cure
• Iran Sends Warships to US Maritime Borders
• Academic ideals are being crushed to suit private-sector style management
• L'Arabie saoudite s'en prend aux djihadistes
• Susan Rice blasts Israel for criticizing Kerry
• Shia fighter beheaded by Syrian rebels,Video shows footage of public execution of a man believed to have been a pro-government Shia fighter
• President Abdullah Gül: Damascus ‘got upper hand thanks to Iran’
• Ankara alarmed over Qaeda threat in Syria: Ankara has woken up to the threat posed by al-Qaeda in Syria, reportedly taking measures against potential suicide bombing inside Turkey
• Australia Vs. Indonesia Approaches A Flashpoint
• U.S. spy chiefs: More than 7,000 foreign militants are fighting for the rebels in Syria's civil war and some are being trained to return home and conduct attacks
• Is Blogging Unscholarly? the International Studies Association unveiled a proposal to bar members affiliated with its scholarly journal from blogging
• Syria's road to peace is littered with our errors; The Geneva II peace conference has noble aims, but its flaws are obvious with Iran, Hezbollah and Russia absent
• Egypt: protesters killed on anniversary of anti-Mubarak revolt; at least 54 reported dead in clashes across the country as thousands also rally in support of army-led authorities
• The two sides in the Syria talks are bringing the process close to collapse even before full sessions have formally started
• Syrian Kurds protested Jan. 23 their exclusion from U.N.-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, and vowed to forge ahead with their own freedom drive in territories they control
• The Syria Talks Are Doomed Without Iran: Excluding Bashar al-Assad's most important ally won't halt a widening proxy war
• New Report: 59% of Campuses Maintain Severe Speech Restrictions--But That's Actually an Improvement
• Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills; In the week that Uruguay legalises cannabis, the 78-year-old explains why he rejects the 'world's poorest president' label
• Al-Qaeda training British and European 'jihadists' in Syria to set up terror cells at home
• Systematic killing evidence in Syria
• A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August
• In pics: Islam celebrates Prophet Muhammad's birthday
• Ya'alon: "Secretary of state John Kerry – who arrived here determined, and who operates from an incomprehensible obsession and a sense of messianism – can't teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians"
• Thierry Meyssan: discovery of links connecting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Al- Qaeda
• German foreign minister: Geneva II 'useless' without Iran
• A Brother's Vengeance: The Preacher Who Could Topple Erdogan; The greatest threat yet to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan comes from a former ally. Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen and his influential followers seem determined to accomplish what the recent protest movement could not: overthrowing the current regime
• A former Guantanamo detainee who was transferred to his home country of Bahrain in 2005 has reportedly joined the jihad in Syria
• Turkish PM Erdogan hit by allegations of son’s meeting with ‘Al Qaeda financier’
• U.S. and Iran Face Common Enemies in Mideast Strife: they find themselves on the same side of a range of regional issues surrounding an insurgency raging across the Middle East
• The Moral Case for Ending America's Cold War with Iran: The stakes are higher than restraining Tehran's nuclear program; Improved relations may be our last best hope of ending the Syrian civil war
• 'Chance of a Century': International Investors Flock to Tehran
• Sunni monarchs back YouTube hate preachers: Anti-Shia propaganda threatens a sectarian civil war which will engulf the entire Muslim world
• Glenn Greenwald: U.S., British Media Are 'Devoted Servants' To Government
• Al Qaeda-linked Yusuf Al Qadi and Osama Khoutub, who are among suspects in a major graft probe, has reportedly fled Turkey after the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) blocked a police raid on Wednesday as İstanbul police didn't comply with orders of prosecutors to detain several suspects in the second leg of the investigation
• The Home Secretary: revoked the British citizenship of 20 people this year to prevent the return of dual-nationals who have gone to fight in Syria
• AKP corruption probe: Turkey's recent past is filled with political parties that were swept to power thanks to their promises to root out corruption in the country but which disappeared from the political scene due to claims of corruption and fraud in their own ranks
• Masked Army: Jihadist Group Expands Rapidly in Syria
• Up to 11,000 Foreign Fighters in Syria; Steep Rise Among Western Europeans
• Zarqawi’s Cubs: Extremist Syrian faction touts training camp for boys
• Turkey admits export of rifles to Syria ‘for sports’; 47 tons of weaponry
• Iraqi Deputy PM Hussain al-Shahristani welcomes recent deals between Turkey and the KRG, but stresses that Baghdad 'shouldn’t be marginalized'
• Pope Francis says trickle-down economics do not help the poor, says he is not a Marxist, but defends criticism of capitalism
• Radical Islamists embedded among the rebels in Syria are reportedly targeting foreign journalists for abduction
• Free Syrian Army Gen. Salim Idris fled to Qatar through Turkey, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal
• U.S., Britain suspend aid to north Syria after Islamists seize weapons store
• Saudi Arabia migrant expulsions: 'They beat us. I want to warn others not to go'
• Whose sarin: The Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin
• With Iran, Obama can end America’s long war for the Middle East
• Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis
• Don’t Sanitize Nelson Mandela: He’s Honored Now, But Was Hated Then: If we turn the late South African leader into a nonthreatening moral icon, we’ll forget a key lesson from his life: America isn’t always a force for freedom
• Syrian rebels consider joining forces with regime troops to fight al-Qa’ida
• Study: Muslim job candidates may face discrimination in Republican states
• Algerian daily al-Shorouq: “The Algerian security services have conducted a careful investigation into the networks which recruit Salafis to fight against Houthis in Yemen”
• The Free Syrian Army began as a simple group of fighters battling Assad. But Ruth Sherlock, in Antakya, finds their mission is now making millions from bribery and extortion
• Dissenting deputy sent to disciplinary board resigns from ruling AKP
• Disillusionment Grows Among Syrian Opposition as Fighting Drags On
• Row between Turkish government and Gülen heats up with new document
• Turkish protesters: “Erdoğan, withdraw your al-Qaeda from Rojava”
• Almost 80 percent of protesters detained as part of the Gezi Park protests were Alevis, according to daily Milliyet citing a report by Turkish security and intelligence authorities
• P5+1 & Iran agree landmark nuclear deal at Geneva talks
• Turkey's Ruling AKP moves to expel dissenting deputy
• Saudi's internal power struggle sends ripples across international borders: Post-coup Egypt is only the start of Saudi Arabia's problems abroad, and the root cause may be old-fashioned courtly manoeuvring
• Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once famous in Washington for his cigars, parties and charm, is now Saudi Arabia’s point man, fighting Iran in Syria and denouncing the Obama administration
• Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asking the world: “would you back down” from a step toward shaping your own destiney rather than letting others decide for you?
• Amnesty slams Qatar migrant worker exploitation: Qatar’s construction sector rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation
• Israel, Saudi Arabia cooperating to plan possible Iran attack: Convinced that Iran is tricking the world over nuclear weapons, Israel and Saudi Arabia may work together to curb its ambitions
• Riots in Saudi Arabia: ‘The Kingdom expels the same people it exploited’
• Qatar loses clout amid fading Arab Spring
• Syrian Refugees Sell Organs to Survive: In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, a growing number of refugees are surviving in Lebanon by illegally selling their own organs
• McCain: 'Vive la France' for blocking Iran nuclear deal
• Former Prime Minister criticises the dominance of private-school educated elite in “upper echelons” of British public life
• Where Allah Rocks: Indonesia's Tolerant Take on Islam
• Turkey, Iran signal thaw in ties amid mutual concern on Syria
• Bahrain teargas stockpile plan faces international opposition: Government insists weapon is legal after activists condemn tender for vast quantities of gas and grenades
• Islam belongs in people's lives, not in politics, says Karima Bennoune: Author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here says the politicised version of Islam peddled by fundamentalists is dangerous and misrepresentative
• Saudi women filmed defying driving ban in October 26 protest
• What money cannot buy long term: Saudi Arabia’s Image Falters among Middle East Neighbors
• Why Did Saudi Arabia Refuse to Join the UN Security Council? The nation seems to be refusing the opportunity to vote on the very issues it’s concerned about
• Foreign jihadists surpass Afghan-Soviet war, storm Syria in record numbers
• The Sinai Peninsula is both a vacation paradise and a haven for jihadists and gangs of thugs. The military and the police are trying to regain control over the region. But a new class of haughty warlords and a resentful public mean the state's chances are remote
• The forgotten story of Iran Air Flight 655
• What to Make of Saudi Hand-Wringing: Troubling and uncertain times for Saudi diplomacy
• US President Barack Obama reportedly confronted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a "difficult meeting" in May about what Washington saw as indiscriminate support for fighters seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
• In a SPIEGEL interview, Syrian President Bashar Assad discusses his fight for power, his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and the special expectations he has for Germany
• Turkish Shias in fear of life on the edge: Sectarian hatred is moving from Syria into the mainstream of Turkey’s political life
• In an interview with SPIEGEL, Syrian President Assad: "West Is More Confident in Al-Qaida than Me"
• CIA ramping up covert training program for moderate Syrian rebels
• Iran Opens Its Fist
• Syria: massacre reports emerge: Villagers from president's Shia sect are fleeing their homes, recounting gruesome tales of executions and other atrocities
• How Turkey blew its chance to lead this troubled region: The country could have enhanced its influence and saved a lot of lives. It did the exact opposite
• A Syrian solution to civil conflict? The Free Syrian Army is holding talks with Assad's senior staff; Secret approach to the President could reshape the whole war
• Obama and Rouhani make history with phone call, thawing three decade freeze between US and Iran
• Syria rebels reject Syrian National Coalition, call for Islamic leadership
• Declassified NSA files show agency spied on Muhammad Ali and MLK; Operation Minaret set up in 1960s to monitor anti-Vietnam critics, branded 'disreputable if not outright illegal' by NSA itself
• Speech of H.E. Mr. Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• François Hollande, President of the French Republic at the general debate of the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey at the general debate of the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Barack Obama, President of the United States of America at the general debate of the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
• In an exclusive interview to CCTV correspondent Wang Weiwei, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has confirmed that Syria plans to honor its commitment to the chemical weapons disarmament deal
• Iranians united in their support to president Hassan Rouhani's diplomatic initiatives
• Rocket attack targets police social facilities building in Ankara
• Why Iran seeks constructive engagement: ‘Gone is the age of blood feuds’
• Rouhani: said his country will never develop nuclear weapons
• Intelligence Sources: President Hassan Rohani could be willing to make concessions in the country's long-running standoff with the West over its nuclear program
• Nearly half the rebel fighters in Syria are now aligned to jihadist or hardline Islamist groups according to a new analysis of factions in the country's civil war
• Syria rebels' form of justice: captives are dragged to their doom and butchered like animals in some of the most brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war
• U.S. and Russia reach a deal on Syria's chemical weapons: A plan that Kerry initially said "can’t be done, obviously," is now "the plan"
• Turkey left out of diplomatic loop on chemical weapons debate; is Turkey becoming even more irrelevant?
• A French report claims that Turkey encouraged the formation of a jihadist brigade called “Katibat al-Taliban” (KaT)
• The problems with political bias in the culture of think tanks: Syria expert Senator McCain cited is not an expert after all
• What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria: A Plea for Caution From Russia
• NSA shares raw intelligence including American citizens' data with Israel
• Police fire tear gas to disperse crowds gathered to denounce protester's death in Turkey
• Syrian American Woman tells McCain "do not bomb Syria"
• Unbelievably John Kerry: Once again, John Kerry’s created an unbelievably big problem out of one little phrase
• Pierre Piccinin: Assad not Responsible for Ghouta Gas Attack, rebels used gas in Ghouta to trigger Western intervention
• If Obama is not willing to target both the regime and the terrorists in Syria, then Congress should not approve military action
• Who are the Syrian rebels: al-Qaeda in Syria leaders think that Americans are threatening war in Syria to target them, not the regime; other rebels wish U.S. will bomb jihadists
• Israel: A powerful Middle Eastern axis of Sunni states has taken form in the region, which “does not view Israel as a sworn enemy”
• John Kerry gives Syria a week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack
• How has the West responded to ‘gassing’ in West Asia?
• In Turkey, 72% of respondents to the Transatlantic Trends 2013 survey, which was conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), said their country should stay out of Syria
• Refugees Pour Out of Syria, but Number Entering Jordan Slows to Trickle
• Washington Post: A majority of House members are now on the record as either against or leaning against authorizing President Obama to use military force against Syria
• Obama assembles fragile alliance blaming Assad for chemical attacks
• Stratfor: U.S. military intervention in Syria could actually benefit Tehran
• Emboldened Mr Putin changed the G20 agenda – which was originally focused on trade and tax matters – to include a dinner discussion about Syria
• Obama faced growing pressure from world leaders on Thursday not to launch military strikes in Syria at a summit on the global economy that was hijacked by the conflict
• Obama: "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line"
• Al-Qaida-linked Syria rebels hit Christian village
• John Kerry reveals Arab countries have offered to PAY America to carry out full-scale invasion of Syria
• How many people were killed during the alledged chemical attack near Damascus?
• Putin says Russia could support strike on Syria
• Pictures emerge showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria together
• Obama: Syrian rebels trained by CIA sneaked into Syria
• U.N. Chief: Use Of Force Is Only Legal In Self-Defense Or With U.N. OK
• G-20 debate on Syria: Putin knows clearly which side he wants to win in Syria and why; Obama can’t begin to explain why America should want jihadists to take control of Syria
• The administration’s proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for Syria
• Revealed: Britain sold nerve gas chemicals to Syria 10 months after 'civil unrest' began
• US President Barack Obama’s decision to seek the approval of Congress over military strikes in Syria has led to calls for French President François Hollande to also put the question of action against Damascus to a parliamentary vote
• Putin: it would be "utter nonsense" for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was winning its war with rebels
• U.S. intelligence assessment of August 21 suspected chemical-weapons attack near Damascus cites
• Representative Adam Smith: Simply lashing out with military force under the banner of 'doing something' will not secure our interests in Syria
• After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its investigation
• We should have been traumatised into action by this war in 2011. And 2012. But now?
• A Pilgrimage to a Person
• YPG Commander: Kurds Are Bulwark Against Islamic Extremism in Syria
• Doctors without Borders: Evidence Syrian rebels used sarin, nerve gas, in the Damascus suburb attack
• Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?
• Military strikes on Syria 'as early as Thursday,' US officials say
• The Egyptian military uses religion to keep troops from deserting or disobeying orders
• 'A Slow Death': How the War Is Destroying Syria's Economy
• Gulf Islamists irked as monarchs back Egypt's generals
• Tension between Gulf countries and Turkey may harm economic relations
• Erdoğan says history will curse Al-Azhar Sheikh for endorsing coup
• A senior Turkish diplomat has strictly denied a news report that cited a Syrian rebel operative as saying that 400 tons of arms have been sent into Syria from Turkey
• Tunisia opposition starts week of protests calling for resignation of Islamist-led government
• Report: Syrian soldiers find chemical agents in rebel tunnels
• Polls: Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed
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• Saudis give Egypt ‘blank cheque’: Saudi Arabia and several conservative Gulf Emirates have pledged to support Egypt’s interim authorities as they continue their crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
• When anti-terrorism laws are used to harass journalists (and/or their partners)
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Israel was behind the military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi
• 10 biggest US Defense contracts involving direct military aid to Egypt from 2009 to 2011
• PORTRAIT OF A CAIRO LIBERAL AS A MILITARY BACKER
• The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq
• Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused Egypt’s interim rulers of committing state terrorism and compared army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad
• Propaganda Trap: Egyptian Elite Succumb to the Hate Virus
• On the streets of Cairo it's not just a fledgling democracy that lies in ruin. US policy too is in tatters - in the eyes of many - or at least America's reputation and credibility
• Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that radical Sunni Islamists were likely behind a car bomb attack that killed dozens of people in the Lebanese group's stronghold in southern Beirut
• Murdering the Wretched of the Earth
• Commander Haji Ahmad told Firat News that his fighters killed two members of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) in the last two days of clashes in the region of Sad Shahab where the Kurdish villages are located
• A leading member of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has accused Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu of being engaged in efforts to aid armed groups in Syria that have been clashing with Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD)
• A protester attacked Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ and was immediately stopped by security forces at a ceremony he attended today to commemorate Alevi - Bektaşi figure Hacı Bektaş Veli in Nevşehir
• The reaction to this week's massacre in Cairo will be key to the reputations of the United States and Europe in Arab states and the Muslim world in general for years to come. Its credibility and influence are at stake
• army claims the supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi were armed and it has broadcast footage in a bid to prove it
• industry sources: Iraq’s Kurdistan region is exporting crude oil by truck to an Iranian port for shipping to Asia
• Obama cancels meeting with Putin over Snowden asylum tensions
• 'No coups, yes to elections!': Massive pro-govt rally held in Tunis
• Hassan Rouhani has taken the oath of office as president of Iran before parliament in Tehran, promising to lead a government of hope and moderation
• PYD leader: Turkey continues to support al-Nusra Front against Kurds
• Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (pictured right) won the first round of Mali’s presidential election with 39.24% of the vote while Soumaila Cisse (left) earned 19.44%, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The victor will be decided in an August 11 run-off
• Bashar al-Assad Is On Instagram
• Dianne Feinstein Initiates Pro-Iran Diplomacy Letter in Senate
• Arab Cinderella: A Life Poem
• Exhibition showcasing over 1000 years of Islamic art and architecture opens at the Asian Civilisations Museum
• Former Malian prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's campaign team said on Monday its results put Keita in a strong lead and in reach of outright victory in Mali's election, but rivals said they were sure a run-off vote would have to be held
• a presidential spokesman: Eight Tunisian soldiers were killed when gunmen ambushed an army unit near the border with Algeria. The attack took place on Jebel Chaambi, a suspected hideout of al Qaeda-linked militants
• Azeri maqami musician Alim Qasimov will be joining an Iranian band to perform a concert at the 49th International Festival of Carthage in Tunis
• Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has called on the Kurdish groups in Syria not to side with the al-Assad regime and urged them to support the opposition
• CIVIL SOCIETY AND FOREIGN DONORS IN LIBYA
• Syrian state media accused insurgents on Saturday of killing 123 people, the majority of them civilians, during a rebel offensive this week to take the northern town of Khan al-Assal
• Turkish PM, Erdoğan: The Egyptian people are showing dignity against the military coup for weeks. They didn’t have Molotov cocktails or weapons in their hands, they had patience. They didn't allow vandalism. Nothing that happened in our country has been happening in Cairo or in Alexandria
• Kufic Ancient and Modern: from calligraphy to typography
• Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant advances, it predicts
• Turkey has fallen down the ranks of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, dropping to 154th on the annual list
• ISDA: Iran’s major foreign policy challenge is to improve its relations with the West and its neighbours and overcome its isolation; from this point of view, Rohani provides a ray of hope
• Following mass anti-government protests in Turkey, Ankara is now taking revenge on its critics. Activists and demonstrators are being investigated and intimidated, while journalists are getting fired and insubordinate civil servants transferred far afield
• PM Erdoğan likens Gezi protesters to ‘piteous rodents
• While important government figures were playing “brotherhood” at five star hotels, the groups have decided to share the table with the Anti-Capitalist Muslims, who share Alevis’ sorrow and recognize the community as it is, rather than attempting to define the group
• The Telegraph: Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side
• Egyptian politicians and Western diplomats: Mohamed Mursi might still be president of Egypt today if he had grasped a political deal brokered by the European Union with opposition parties in April
• Kurdish-islamist infighting: fighting has spread from Hasakeh in northeastern Syria to several hotspots in Raqa province in the north
• EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday to put the military wing of Lebanese group Hezbollah on the bloc's list of terrorist groups. But sanctions will have little impact
• A senior US intelligence official has warned that Syria's civil war could rage for several years and that the conflict is reviving al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Now we arrive in the Middle East as smiling supplicants, blessing any “people’s change” (unless it is any monarchical autocracy of the Gulf)
• Syrian Kurdish forces freed a local leader linked to al Qaeda as part of an agreed ceasefire to end fierce fighting with Islamist rebels in the northern Syrian town of Tel Abyad on Sunday
• David Cameron: The Assad government may have got "stronger" in recent months, but more can be done to help Syria's opposition forces
• Killing in Cairo: the full story of the Republican Guards' club shootings
• Momentum Shifts in Syria, Bolstering Assad’s Position: “If the revolution continues like this, the people will revolt against us,” said a rebel commander from the central city of Homs
• Although Iran deems the recent popular-backed military ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi “unacceptable”, analysts believe the move is unlikely to affect future relations between Egypt and Iran
• Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Mohammed Morsi to be the president of Egypt... some foreign countries did not financially support the Morsi government during his one-year presidency; however, the same countries have pledged to provide $16 billion to the coup regime in Egypt
• Egypt's energy crisis sparks conspiracy theories
• Turkish police have cleared Istiklal Avenue, firing water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of protesters as they gathered to march to Gezi Park
• Experts: Turkey should stop taking sides and refrain from using bitter political language while making demands for democratization in Egypt
• Ankara goes back to the drawing board in an effort to better calibrate its Mideast policies following the shock of the Egyptian military coup
• Although they pretend to be neutral, the powerful Egyptian Army played a role in planning the ouster of President Morsi
• The Perils of a ‘People’s Coup’
• Woman’s work: The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
• The beginning of internal wars among Syrian rebels: When Islamists killed A Free Syrian Army leader
• Mubarak's Old Guard Allies with Salafists
• The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized as legal the ruling of a court in the Stavropol region that banned the wearing of headscarves in schools
• Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE compete for influence in Egypt
• Après l'Égypte, des appels à la "rébellion" lancés en Libye
• The final moments of Mohammed Morsi's one-year Presidency before he was ousted by his Egyptian military have been dramatically recounted by army, security and Muslim Brotherhood officials
• Egyptian Lessons to Assad and His Opponents
• When is a military coup not a military coup? When it happens in Egypt, apparently
• Turkey calls for immediate release of Egyptian leaders
• Crisis in Egypt: Morsi at Precipice after Disastrous Year
• President Mohamed Morsi rejects Egypt army's ultimatum, as ministers resign
• Turkey: recent unrest is Foreign powers and the Jewish diaspora conspiracy
• Tunisia Tiring of Transition
• China claims that "Xinjiang terrorists finding training, support in Syria, Turkey"
• Foreign media portrayals of the conflict in Syria are dangerously inaccurate
• Taking Outsize Role in Syria, Qatar Funnels Arms to Rebels
• Egypt's Mohamed Morsi remains defiant as fears of civil war grow
• Turkish security forces fire on protesters in Diyarbakir
• Brzezinski: Saudi Arabia, Qatar produced the crisis in Syria
• Police crush protesters, block Ankara gathering
• Azerbaijan Stirred, Not Shaken by Turkish Protests
• Turkish Power Struggle: Brotherly Love Begins to Fray in Ankara
• Turkish PM Erdoğan’s Gaza trip to take place in ‘shortest and most correct time’
• Turkish minister warns that companies uncooperative on cyber crime will receive ‘Ottoman slap’
• Iranian leader: West's Stubbornness Blocks Settlement of Iran's N. Issue
• Egypt braced for rival mass demonstrations
• U.S Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright under investigation for allegedly leaking information about cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities
• Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Banned From Entering UK
• Former al-Qaeda member Sheikh Nabil Naiim: Jabhat al-Nusra is led by a CIA operative
• Morsi: I have made mistakes
• The U.S. Wants Snowden. Why Won't The World Cooperate?
• Two people were killed and dozens injured in street fighting on Wednesday north of Cairo
• How did China, Russia, Cuba, and Ecuador become the champions of political freedom?
• When China and Russia become protectors of activists, the West’s double is highlighted
• As The Arab Spring Fades And The Turkish Model Collapses, Can Islam Foster Prosperity?
• Turkey's Alevi community doubtful of government initiatives
• The West should intervene in Syria for many reasons. One is to stem the rise of Persian power
• Lebanese army storms Islamist mosque as Syria crisis spreads
• State secrets: Kerry’s department downplays Iran’s role in Latin America; likely to anger Congress
• Video shows Turkish police badly beating Gezi protesters for minutes in Antalya
• Depths of Syria's War: “You see, they have always been traitors”
• French President Francois Hollande: "moderate rebels must take territory held by radical Islamists"
• 2.5 million people attended Gezi protests across Turkey: Interior Ministry
• Who are the “Friends of Syria”? And what is their strategy for ending the Syrian crisis?
• Islamic voices against Erdoğan
• Nadia Umm Fuad watched her son being shot by Islamist rebels in Syria after the 14-year-old referred to the Prophet Mohammed as he joked with a customer at his coffee stall in Aleppo
• Erdogan and the Protests: Turkey's Stubborn Man on the Bosphorus
• Saudi Arabia supplied heavy weapons to Syrian rebels; major weapons shipment comprised rockets and other arms from the former Yugoslavia, paid for by Qatar
• Taliban offer to swap American hostage for Guantanamo Bay inmates
• Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç threatened resign both from his post as deputy prime minister and from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
• Duran Adam (Standing Man), non-violent protest adapts and innovates in Turkey
• Britain’s Supreme Court has lifted sanctions against Iran’s Mellat Bank describing them "irrational" and "disproportionate".
• Palestinian refugees suffer as Syria crisis drags on
• The regime digs in: President Bashar Assad and his forces have won a new lease of life
• Hamas leaders meet with Erdoğan in Ankara
• Where the anti-Assad coalition went wrong
• Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
• Russia’s sole support for Syria casts a pall over G-8
• While the West deliberates, Saudi Arabia sends anti-aircraft missiles to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria
• Iran and the West
• 'Standing man' inspires Turkish protesters amid raids
• US rejects claims Americans fomenting Gezi Park unrest in Turkey
• US president says talks 'very useful' but Russia admits 'our opinions do not coincide' as pair look to end conflict in Syria
• Vladimir Putin accuses David Cameron of betraying humanitarian values by supporting Syrian rebels
• Is Moroccan Exceptionalism Falling Apart?
• Putin warns Cameron against arming Syrian rebels as UK weighs options
• Police lock down Taksim, PM shows off in Istanbul
• Benghazi clashes kill 6 soldiers amid warnings of imminent ‘bloodbath’
• Gezi Park protesters refuse to leave, vow to 'continue resistance'
• Early results suggest Rouhani may win an outright majority in presidential election, avoiding need for runoff
• Moderate leads presidential poll, Iran's early results show
• Barack Obama is leading from behind in Syria - and can't see where he is going
• Syrian rebels prepare for showdown in Aleppo
• Moscow unconvinced by US evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use
• Obama's 'red line' crossed, will arm Syrian rebels
• Hundreds of lawyers protest in support Gezi Park protests in Istanbul
• Libya's Committees and Libya Shield are pursuing agendas that are regional, tribal, Islamist and sometimes criminal
• Dozens of lawyers dragged from peaceful protest at Istanbul's main courthouse as riot police attempt to quash demonstrations
• Rebels trying to extort weapons out of the US as a condition for showing up, US is discussing that option today
• Well done kids, well done
• Massive rally illuminates Taksim as protests continue in Turkey
• Analysts: Foreign militant Islamists streaming into Syria
• Erdoğan probably did not know thousands of people who voted for him were among those raising their voices against his government’s Taksim plan
• First ‘Friday prayers’ in Istanbul's Taksim after clashes
• Iran Outmaneuvers U.S. in the Syrian Proxy War
• Muslim Brotherhood: Turkey protests aim to make Islamic project fail
• White House defends NSA phone records collection as 'critical tool'
• Turkish PM accuses Reuters reporter of misinforming her agency about the situation in the country
• A Turkish Spring? Over 1,000 Injured as Anti-Government Protests Spread Outside of Istanbul
• Claims of government control over Turkish media: "While the whole world was broadcasting from Taksim Square, Turkish television stations were showing cooking shows"
• Tony Blair: Woolwich attack shows there is a 'problem within Islam'
• NATO: Syrians have undergone a change of heart over the last six months, 70 percent of Syrians support the Assad regime
• The İstanbul problem and the protest movement in Turkey
• Erdoğan: For every 100,000 protesters, I will bring out a million from my party
• Turkish police clash with protesters in Istanbul after demonstration over Taksim square grows and widens
• Syria peace talks likely to be postponed until July or August
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• Turkish Police foil al-Nusra bomb attack planned for Adana
• Sen. John McCain accused of meeting with kidnappers in Syria
• Turkish FM fails to convince Syrian opposition to attend Geneva II meeting
• New York Times, sarin and skepticism
• Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
• Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Challenges
• Syrian rebels turn on their political leaders: Fighters want more of their members added to exiled Syrian National Coalition
• Syria: Arms Sans Frontières
• Syria and the Middle East: our greatest miscalculation since the rise of fascism
• French diplomat & Syrian opposition members backstage dealing
• Russia slams end of EU arms embargo, calls S-300s ‘stabilizing factor’ in Syria
• How Timbuktu’s manuscripts were saved from jihadists
• Syria: the imperative of de-escalation
• After Sunni Salafis joined jihad in Syria, now it is Iraqi Shiites turn
• How Syria's neighbors see the crisis?
• Syrian Human Rights Group is EU-Funded Fraud
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• Syrian army says captured Israeli Jeep is proof of aid to rebels
• Nigeria begins offensive against Islamist sect
• Syria Death Toll Likely As High As 120,000, 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites
• U.N. condemns Assad forces, but unease grows about rebels
• Benghazi bomb kills and injured dozens as Libya's security unravels
• Syrian rebel atrocity video: No apology for ‘revenge’, more clips promised
• Soad El Khammal : "Je ne peux pas pardonner" aux auteurs des attentats du 16 mai 2003 au Maroc
• Turkish PM under fire over bombings ahead of US trip
• Syria mutilation footage sparks doubts over wisdom of backing rebels
• Algeria and the Shirt of Nessus
• Maher: Islam is a uniquely threatening and destructive force and that Muslims are uniquely oppressive and violent
• Iran Surprises Again!
• Explosions hit Turkish town on border with Syria, killing four and injuring 22
• Pakistani elections: more than a dozen killed by bomb blast in Karachi
• Scientific Journals Adapt to New U.S. Trade Sanctions on Iran
• Benghazi Schools Obama In The Politics Of Scandal
• With Father and Sister Imprisoned, Exiled Bahraini Activist Maryam Alkhawaja Condemns Ongoing Abuses
• Syria crisis: US-Russia accord offers no easy answers
• Free Syrian Army rebels defect to Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra
• Syrian rebel leader Salim Idriss admits difficulty of unifying fighters
• Who is arming the Syrian rebels?
• U.S. skeptical on reported use of chemical weapons by Syrian rebels
• Kenyan Mau Mau victims in talks with UK government over legal settlement
• U.N. Has Gathered Testimony Indicating That Syrian Rebels Have Used Sarin Gas, Says Investigator
• Iowa Town Named for Muslim Hero Extols Tolerance
• Israel... could be providing a major psychological and perhaps military assist to Syrian rebels
• U.S. plan: a “moderate crescent” as a counterweight to the “fundamentalist crescent”
• Despite stalled Arab Spring, Muslim nations grasp for democracy
• Editorials Call for the Closure Of Guantánamo In New York Times, Washington Post And Guardian
• Muslim Bashing in the Wake of Boston Bombing
• Partial Readings: Collapsing Factories and the “End Death Traps” Tour
• The violence that ended Qaddafi still rules above elected leaders
• eager to get around term limits, Erdoğan eyes the presidency, explains "president is not a king"
• CIA 'buys influence with bags of cash' left at office of Hamid Karzai
• Iraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and Kurdish forces as troops desert
• Syria nerve gas claims undermined by eyewitness accounts
• Gold as a decorative art in the Muslim Near East
• PKK does not support to Kurdish state plans in northern Iraq
• 500 Europeans fight against Assad in Syria – EU anti-terror chief
• Gunmen seize control of Iraqi town, officials say
• A conversation with Olivier Roy on the nature of the alleged Marathon terrorists
• Erdoğan’s compromise: I will go to Gaza with Abbas
• Families of Lebanese hostages believe Turkey can secure release of captives
• Immigrant Kids, Adrift
• Rand Paul Wants to Ban 8-Year-Old Immigrants from America
• Algerians in London protest against shale gas and the lack of a national debate
• Partial Readings: The Violence We Can, and Can’t, Prevent
• FBI: Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev followed 'radical Islam'
• US prepares $130m military aid package for Syrian rebels
• President Assad's army is starting to call the shots in Syria
• Opposition leader jailed for insulting Kuwaiti ruler
• Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel's right to discriminate against Americans
• Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf admits secret CIA drone deal with US
• Russia strikes back with Magnitsky list response
• Rebel Keeps Kurds’ Guns Close at Hand in Peace Talks With Turkey
• Iran Gets First Ever Kurdish Presidential Hopeful
• Syria's al-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda
• Egypt's army took part in torture and killings during revolution, report shows
• Syria's Jihadists face test of government in eastern city
• Tunisia Now Exporting “Jihadis”
• Jabhat Al Nusra, Syrian Islamic Rebel Group, Merges With Al Qaeda In Iraq
• Brazil, China, and India Are Fat, And Getting Fatter
• Christian mourners, mob, police clash in Egypt
• WikiLeaks publishes 1.7m US diplomatic records
• The leader of Iraq’s oil union is being threatened with prison–again
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• Azeri Muslims Protest Theologian’s Arrest
• Syria warns Jordan over aiding rebels
• Why Do We Laugh at North Korea But Fear Iran?
• Sri Lanka's Muslims bear brunt of Buddhist extremism
• Why the Iran Sanctions Don't Work
• Syria: 'up to 100' British Muslims fighting in war
• The Emir of NYU: John Sexton's Abu Dhabi Debacle
• Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists
• Arab League summit showcases Qatar’s swagger
• Erdoğan doing everything to make Israel regret apology: Israeli far-right leader
• Islamists, secular rebels battle in Syria over Nusra Front’s call for Islamic state
• Terror in Timbuktu: A trip through the heart of Mali
• BRICS plan new 50bn bank to rival World Bank and IMF
• Israel's apology to shift Mideast balances: Turkish PM
• Jihadists, not Assad, apparently behind reported chemical attack in Syria
• Hezbollah slams Mikati, says resignation worsens paralysis
• Iraq's Maliki Rejects Kerry Demand to Bar Iran Overflights
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