Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Public remarks by the head of the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Agence France Press Arabic says that Cypriot…
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Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter of the Mexican organizers of the tour to Egypt that met with tragedy Sunday, has been…Israel: Rosh Hashanah Dancing Robots – Happy New Year with a Technion Touch
Technion | Shana Tova - Video| - - "Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has the touch to get you ready for the New Year - a robot picks a pomegranate from the tree…Contrary to Propaganda, Iran has always denounced Nukes
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - Despite all the propaganda about the Iranian leaders’ rush to acquire nuclear weapons, ever since the start of the…Clashes rock Al-Aqsa Compound, 3rd Holiest Muslim Shrine, for 2nd day
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces and Palestinians clashed for the second consecutive day at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday, with several journalists injured as Israeli…US Intel Chief: Iraq and Syria may not Survive as States
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Public remarks by the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency and by John Brennan, director of the CIA, suggest that Washington is…When will War be off the Table? Iran & US Trash Talk
By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - You have to admire the sheer gall of the Republican presidential field, which has coalesced around the idea of, in Scott Walker’s…Israel’s Deep Role in Syrian Refugee Crisis: Saga of Yarmouk
By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - When Zionist Haganah militias carried out Operation Yiftach, on May 19 1948, the aim was to drive Palestinians in the northern Safad…Germany seeks Talks with Russia over Syria as Putin conducts Naval Maneuvers off Tartous
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Agence France Press Arabic says that Cypriot officials are reporting that Russia has asked them to alter airline routes this coming week because…Leftist Corbyn win as head of UK Labour alarms Israeli Right Wing
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday quickly led to condemnation from the Israeli press who…How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade
By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - When negotiations between Iran and the European “Troika” broke down, the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami was discredited in…14 Years after 9/11, US, Israel Tempted to ally with Al-Qaeda in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Jabhat al-Nusra or Support Front is one of the major rebel groups in Syria, holding extensive territory in the hinterland of cities…‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal
By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | - - Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are looking at what the most persuasive arguments…Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So
By Elisabeth Braw | (RFE/ RL) | - - A group of Iranian emigres and friends has announced an ambitious project to mount a crowdfunded airlift from troubled areas around the Mediterranean…Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ
Ma'an News | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its headquarters in New York by an overwhelming…Why Young Iraqis Are Risking Their Lives to Get to Europe
By Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Iraq's security crisis means that if you are “different”, you may be a threat to militias ruling the streets now. Would-be asylum…ISIL’s campaign may be going chemical – why no international outcry?
Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | - - Evidence is mounting that [so-called] Islamic State (IS) [group] is using chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria – and yet this egregious crime, which…Russia Ramping up Military Involvement in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports, based on sources in Beirut, that Russia is increasing its involvement in Syria, backing the military of beleaguered dictator Bashar al-Assad.…Kurds unite, from Conservatives to Far Left, in Fight against ISIL
By Karlos Zurutuza | (Inter Press Service) | - - KIRKUK, Iraq (IPS) - Reminders of the last occupants of camp K1 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk are only visible…Nearly all of Gaza’s Water ‘Undrinkable’
By Celine Hagbard - (IMEMC) | - - Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled…The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants
By Charlie Hoyle | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - The pink stone mansions hidden among the modern urban geography of Bethlehem --surrounded by an eight-meter high concrete wall and penned in…