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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Egypt’s ongoing parliamentary elections – farcical in every sense, with a turnout so far ofonly 2 percent – are further proof that Egypt is witnessing the solidification of a quasi-authoritarian system of government, not a democratic revival. Most of Egypt’s new parliamentarians will be wealthy, elite, sympathetic to the nation’s current military president, and
By Soumaya Ghannoushi Sunni Islam is in turmoil. Over the last two decades, it has been in the grip of ferment and fragmentation unprecedented in its long history. After the wave of radicalisation that had swept across Shiism following the Iranian revolution of 1979, it was the turn of Sunni Islam, which represents around 80 percent
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By David Hearst If Jews want to preserve their ghastly collective memory from being desecrated they should tell Netanyahu he does not represent them For people who injected a fair amount of drama into the business of raising two children in post-war suburban North London (“it’s not as if I am buying a submarine” my mother
By Dilly Hussain When a secular state interferes in the private religious affairs of its citizens, it is no longer secular or democratic Barely a week after the UK Government announced that Islamophobic hate crimes would be treated as seriously as anti-Semitic attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new set of counter-extremism measures on Monday, vowing to crackdown
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