Turkey urges end to ‘Islamophobic fascist terrorism”, says presidential spokesman Turkey is urging the world to stop “Islamophobic fascist terrorism” after armed terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand early Friday which left at least 49 people [ More … ]
Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his withdrawal Monday from a bid to win another term in office and postponed an April 18 election, following weeks of protests against his candidacy. By: AFP Mr Bouteflika, in [ More … ]
Thousands of people gathered across Algeria on Friday to protest President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term. Security forces in riot gear fired tear gas to block a march on to the presidential [ More … ]
Moroccan-Saudi relations have never been as cool and strained as they have become in the past week, By Hassan Aourid* following a report on Western Sahara disputed broadcast on Al-Arabiya, a television channel close to decision-making circles [ More … ]
Addressing nation, Al-Bashir calls on parliament to delay proposed constitutional amendments, declares the state of emergency Reported by Mohmed Amin in Anadolu Agency Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the state and federal governments on Friday, [ More … ]
Much of the news these weeks could be about Iran — past, present and future. Forty years ago, the Islamic revolution was at its height. last week, there was a U.S.-organized ministerial meeting in Warsaw to discuss [ More … ]
Palestinians recently ranked corruption as the second largest problem after the economic crisis – higher than the Israeli occupation. Palestinians generally view PA officials as a self-serving, elitist group disconnected from the Palestinian struggle and [ More … ]
Egyptians authorities executed 3 political prisoners today.Ahmed Elhendawy. Almoataz Alattar. Abdelhamid Metwally. Their families were supposed to visit them in prison today but the prison authorities told them they won’t see them because they are [ More … ]
Jordanian King Abdullah quietly visited Istanbul and transited to Tunis. King Abdullah was President Erdogan’s guest on Saturday at the Huber mansion in Tarabya, where the king’s grandfather had also lived for a period of [ More … ]
The presidential elections in Algeria will be held on April 18. 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose candidacy has been an issue of debate for days, has announced his candidacy to take office for the fifth [ More … ]
The large-scale and wide geographic spread of protests in Sudan over the past few weeks pose a greater threat to the regime of President Omar Al-Bashir than ever before in his thirty-year grip on power. [ More … ]
Ex-NSA operatives reveal how they helped spy on targets for the Arab monarchy — dissidents, rival leaders and journalists. wo weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency [ More … ]
The democracy developed in the West, discourses such as the superiority of law, freedoms and human rights, are primarily discourse developed for Western societies. By: Yusuf Kaplan* What’s certain is that the West took democracy, [ More … ]
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