By Basheer Nafi The British review on the Muslim Brotherhood is another stratum in a long history of misunderstanding of the movement On 17 December 2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron submitted to parliament a summary of the conclusions of a review, which he himself ordered in April 2014, about the Muslim Brotherhood. The…
Countries where Islam is already favoured in law, like Afghanistan and Iraq, show the strongest backing for having Sharia as the official law of the land The legal framework based on the moral and legal code of Islam is rarely out of the news. The most extreme interpretations of Sharia are being enforced by Isis…
US officials expressed frustration that Assad is trying to set his own rules about which opponents he is prepared to talk to File photo shows US Secretary of State John Kerry (AFP) US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Moscow on Tuesday to meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and urge him…
By Lamis Andoni The beginning of the solution to the Syrian crisis lies in the emergence of a unified, credible leadership. A man is seen pushing his bicycle in an area adjacent to the Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs, Syria [AP] World powers, regional players, the Syrian regime, the splintered opposition and…
A miniature from 1561 depicting Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I marching with an army in Nakhchivan, summer 1554, at the end of the Ottoman-Safavid War. (photo by Topkapi Palace Istanbul) Are Turkey and Iran reviving a 16th century conflict? In an Al-Monitor article on Dec. 7, Metin Gurcan discusses Turkey’s latest and controversial move near Mosul that aroused…
By Rori Donaghy Israel and the UAE’s strong relationship confirmed as Tel Aviv says it will open a diplomatic office through an energy agency in Abu Dhabi Director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry Dore Gold has arranged the Israel-UAE mission (AFP) Israel is going to open a diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates, in what…
by CJ Werleman An appetite for war is being primed by absolving America’s guilt over the social chaos it has wrought on the Middle East The recent Paris attacks have refocused the American mind on the threat posed by IS. Americans are demanding more boots on the ground, more bombing, more something, more anything…
Aram Roston – BuzzFeed News Chalabi, who died of heart failure on Tuesday at age 71, was charismatic, obsessive, and helped lead the U.S. to war in Iraq. If not for the man named Ahmad Chalabi, the United States probably would not have invaded Iraq in 2003. If not for the Iraq War, as a senior CIA…
Wednesday 11 November 2015 11:05 UTC Esraa al-Taweel’s defence team say that, though she reportedly confessed to assassination plot, charges against her have not changed Esraa al-Taweel, 23, has been detained for more than 150 days, charged with belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (Facebook) Lawyers defending a young Egyptian photojournalist say reports that…
By Mamoon Alabbasi Iraq’s former national security advisor says that prior to Syrian uprising, Assad was helping ‘jihadi’ militants train in Syria to fight in Iraq Former Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie sits in front of a bust of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on 23 December 2013 (AFP) Iraq’s former national…