Saudi Arabia has recently executed 37 people after they were sentenced to death based on ambiguous charges. Unfortunately, the real murderers who plotted and killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday defended the actions of Bahraini authorities who opened fire on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, killing five people. The security of Bahrain “is an integral part” of [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Iraqi paramilitary organization Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi (popular mobilization) as a “terrorist” entity. In an interview with the Al-Jazeera television channel, Erdogan referred to the group and said: “In [ More … ]
Israeli news website for Intelligence affairs ‘Nziv Net’ claimed that Egypt is about to train four Iraqi army units on war against terrorism, in the light of the rapprochement between Egypt and the Iranian axis [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The image that the incidents in Syria is a sectarian war, is the image those who are managing the war are constantly trying to portray. Frankly, the language and motivation used by [ More … ]
Cairo Artworks and Media Mondial has awarded the first prize for a documentary movie produced by the Popular Mobilization Forces (al-hashed al Shaabi), Iraqi Shiite militias fighting battles against the Islamic State (ISIS ) in [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* They set Daesh against Turkey. They set the Baghdad government against Turkey. They set the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD) against Turkey. They are continuing [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Someone fell captive to the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq war. When he was sent to the prison camp, he realized that the first thing he was asked was his sect. [ More … ]
-Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack – At least 34 people were killed in a suicide bombing that targeted Shias in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to security and medical sources, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
BY: Özlem Albayrak* We have been listening to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s salvos against Turkey for days now. The Abadi government that could not even prevent the Shiites and Sunnis in his capital city [ More … ]
Mecca province governor Prince Khaled al-Faisal, responding to Iranian criticism of Riyadh’s management of the hajj (pilgrimage), urged Iran to end what he called wrong attitudes toward Arabs, and warned it against any use of [ More … ]
By: Azmi Bishara* Arabs are not alone in the crisis of Syria and Iraq, including affecting the Arab identity of the two countries and their unity. In fact, Iran is undergoing a real crisis there, [ More … ]
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