أرشيف الوسم : war

“Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shia fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before TV news cameras in Baghdad on June 13. They were apparently getting ready for a difficult fight ahead. For them, it seemed that a suitable war chant would be answering the call of Zaynab, the daughter of Imam Ali, the great Muslim Caliph who lived …

Turkey and Iran on Monday pledged to stop bloodshed and extremism in the Middle East by working together, despite their differences over the civil war in Syria. In a news conference in Ankara, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “Iran and Turkey, the two important countries in the region, are determined to fight against extremism and terrorism”. He added that the …

The Syrian Center for Policy Research, in co-operation with the UN Palestinian refugee agency and the UN Development Program, produced the report “Squandering Humanity”, which says that the Syrian civil war has had a disastrous effect on its economy, and has plunged half of its population into poverty. According to the report, the conflict is creating “economies of violence that …

Pope Francis on Saturday will meet with Syrian refugees in Jordan and will first-hand hear horrific accounts from the Syrian civilian war. The Pope is set to make a stop at Jordan before his trip of the Holy Land. Jordan, which has a population of 7 million, has only 250,000 people who identify themselves as Christian. Pope Francis will meet …

The joint mission of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemicals had announced on Tuesday that Syria had destroyed its entire stockpile of isopropanol, a component used in the preparation of Sarin nerve gas. In a statement, the UN-OPCW mission said, “Now 7.2 percent of Syria’s chemical weapons material remains in country and awaits swift removal …

Ukrainian leaders on Wednesday launched round-table “Unity” talks as a part of a Western push to prevent the country from falling apart. They vowed that they wouldn’t bow to “blackmail” by pro-Russian forces waging an insurgency in Eastern Ukraine. The “Unity” talks do not involve the pro-Russian forces battling in Eastern Ukraine, and are being held two weeks before Ukraine …

On Monday, Refat Chubarov, a leader of the minority Muslim group the Crimean Tatars, said that the new Russian leadership had threatened to prosecute them “for extremism”. Chubarov, who leads the ethnic minority’s assembly, said that the Chief Regional Prosecutor on Sunday gave him an official warning to stop “extremist activities”. During the weekend, hundreds of pro-Ukraine Tatars clashed with …

On Friday, violence north of Baghdad, including a car bomb attack set off by a suicide bomber, resulted in the deaths of six people, just two days after Iraq’s parliamentary elections held on Wednesday. The bloodshed, in the aftermath the first elections held in the country after the withdrawal of US troops in 2011, is the latest in the midst …

في تقرير يوم الأربعاء، قال الأمين العام لا يزال لا يوجد تحسن في وصول المساعدات لملايين السوريين اللذين في حاجة ماسة إليها  مما يخالف قراراً صدر في مجلس الأمن قبل شهرين و هو  أول قرار متعلق بالاوضاع الانساني في الحرب الأهلية السورية ،  وفيه طالب مجلس الأمن كلا من المعارضة المسلحة والحكومة بالسماح بوصول المساعدات الإنسانية إلى المدنيين. وكتب الامين …

أدانت المعارضة السورية يوم الاثنين الإعلان عن  الانتخابات الرئاسية التي ستجرى في الثالث من يونيو. من المتوقع أن يستمر الرئيس بشار الاسد في السلطة على الرغم من وفاة الآلاف في الثورات المناهضة للنظام منذ العام 2011 . أعلن رئيس البرلمان محمد اللحام أن الانتخابات ستعقد يوم 3 يونيو وأنه يمكن للسوريين المقيمين خارج البلاد التصويت بدءا من 28 من مايو. …