As the international community continues to put pressure on the Assad regime to allow Humanitarian corridors for the delivery of aid to those trapped in the city of Aleppo, the regime has instead come up [ More … ]
Syrian rebels announced on Sunday launching a major offensive in order to break the siege laid by Assad regime on the opposition-held parts of Aleppo, according to the operations room of Jaysh al-Fatah. Jaysh al-Fatah [ More … ]
Syrian rebels announced on Sunday launching a major offensive in order to break the siege laid by Assad regime on the opposition-held parts of Aleppo, according to the operations room of Jaysh al-Fatah. Dr. Abdullah al-Muheseni, [ More … ]
US-backed militisa have taken control of 40 percent of Manbij after new advances against areas controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS) in the key Syrian city near the Turkish border. Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), with [ More … ]
The coup plotters stormed the headquarters of public broadcaster TRT and had a coup memorandum read out on behalf of the ‘Peace at Home Council’ , in reference to Atatürk’s famous slogan ‘Peace at Home, [ More … ]
In a move that may strike the skeptics as an empty gesture, the Saudi Ministry of Justice allowed 200 women to leave Saudi Arabia without the permission of a guardian. The ministry had received 350 [ More … ]
Multiple Palestinian prisoners continued their hunger strike Saturday in protest against their administrative detentions in Israeli prisons. Bilal Kayed, who continued his hunger strike Saturday for the 46th day, which he began after he was [ More … ]
An Egyptian court sentenced 13 anti-regime opponents to death after a retrial for allegedly killing a police officer in 2013, according to Anadolu Agency. A judicial source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions [ More … ]
Israeli Authority banned the Palestinian 89-year-old woman Zubaida al-Awawdeh from traveling to receive treatment and visit her son, Salahuddin al-Awawdeh, who was deported by the Israeli Authority to Turkey, according to Palestinian local agencies. The [ More … ]
Many have recently sought to understand and explain today’s crisis of legitimacy within Islam, with some analysts placing the blame for that crisis squarely on Islam itself. In my view, today’s crisis of Islamic religious [ More … ]
Prospects for progress in Yemen peace talks dimmed further this week when Houthi milita and their allies in the political party of a militarily powerful former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, announced they had decided to [ More … ]
The greatest threat to national security today isn’t ISIS, or China, or Russia or even the administration’s favorite bogey, climate change. The greatest threat is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has a regime that [ More … ]
Syrian state media has said that dozens of families, as well as some opposition fighters, have started using newly opened “humanitarian corridors” to leave rebel-held parts of Aleppo, but conflicting reports from inside the besieged [ More … ]
Warplanes of a Saudi-led coalition bombed Houthi fighters from Yemen seeking to infiltrate Saudi Arabia on Saturday, killing tens of Houthi militiamen, security sources said. The bombing took place on the Yemeni side of the [ More … ]
By: Fahmi Huwaidi * The Saudi delegation’s visit to Israel has really shocked us, but it has not completely surprised us. (1) Without the photo that was published, we would not have believed. Mr. Anwar [ More … ]
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