Aqsa Crisis: PM Netanyahu wants Israeli Forces to use Live Fire against Rock Throwing Demonstrators
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has probably benefited so far…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Political Satire In the course of the…
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Iraq: Shiite Militia Abuses Mar Fight Against ISIS
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington) – Iraqi government-backed militias carried out widespread destruction of homes and shops around the city of Tikrit in March and April 2015 in violation of…Tikrit: ‘My Son joined Daesh/ISIL, Now I’m Living in Hell’
By Ghazwan Hassan al-Jibouri | Tikrit | (Niqash.org) | - - While [the so-called 'Islamic State' group] ruled Tikrit, many locals joined. When they were beaten there, fighters fled, leaving family members…Reports: Reluctant Russian Soldiers Oppose ‘Secret’ Syria Mission
By Tom Balmforth | ( RFE/ RL ) MOSCOW -- Several Russian soldiers are seeking help from human rights advocates to oppose what they say are secret orders to send them to…Aqsa Crisis: PM Netanyahu wants Israeli Forces to use Live Fire against Rock Throwing Demonstrators
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan on Friday to protest what appears to be a new Israeli assertion of authority over Muslim…Israel has moved 600,000 Squatters onto Palestinian Land in West Bank
By IMEMC News | - - About 600 thousand settlers live in the West Bank and half of them are in Jerusalem district, said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in…Can Digital India flourish without Freedom of Speech? PM Modi in Silicon Valley
Priya Satia | (Huffington Post) | - - The Indian community of Silicon Valley is preparing to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with open arms next week, in a route stop…As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?
By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | - - In an obvious attempt to show initiative and good will, President Hassan Rouhani recently declared Iran’s readiness to discuss Syria with the United…Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according to figures released by an international rights…Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul
Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | - - Hassan Hafouzi* and his family paid people smugglers so they could leave Mosul, the city controlled by the so-called Islamic State group. Two days after…America can — and should — Do More for Syrian Refugees
By Chris Toensing | (Otherwords.org) | - - Imagine that 58 million Americans were streaming into Canada and Mexico, many with only a small satchel and the clothes on their backs. Picture…Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran’s real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs
By RFE/RL | - - - Iran's President Hassan Rohani has warned that water shortages, unemployment, inflation, and problems like drug addiction are threatening the Islamic republic. Rohani made the remarks in…Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal of ongoing Israeli policies against Palestinians under…Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal: Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Republican presidential candidates are virtually unanimous that human-caused climate change is a hoax and burning fossil fuels is good for us; that…Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone
By Sarah Hackett | (The Conversation) | - - The unfolding refugee crisis has been marked by stories of displacement, violence and despair. There have been frenzied debates about the appropriate responses,…Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa
By IMEMC News | - - PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015.…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…