Israel has ineluctably allied itself with Saudi Arabia and Sunni Islam. So too, the US has taken Israel’s and Saudi’s partisan position against Iran. Both have their shoulders behind the Saudi king’s back – pushing him into leading a hybrid war against his powerful neighbor.
Baghdad declared that it would ask Washington to exempt Tehran from the sanctions because the Iraqi economy depends on the Iranian economy.
The Iraqi government is worried about US sanctions imposed on Iran, which seem to have a negative impact on the Iraqi economy too.
There is currently political unrest in Iraq, as the protests calling for economic reforms have restarted.
Baghdad declared that it would ask Washington
In war torn areas across Syria, a series of reconciliation deals overseen by the secret fixer of Damascus, Khaled al Ahmad, has given residents a respite from the bloodshed.
This is part 2 of a two part series on the reconciliation process in Syria. You can read part 1 here. BEIRUT, LEBANON – Since the Syrian government’s reconquest of its southernmost regions, only two zones
China is forcing its Uyghur population into re-education camps at home and launching it’s first foreign military intervention in decades to make sure they are defeated in Syria.
China, responding to United Nations criticism, academic and media reports, and an embarrassing court case in Kazakhstan, has come closer to admitting that it has brutally cracked down on the strategic north-western province of Xinjiang in what it asserts is a bid to prevent the kind of mayhem that has wracked countries like Syria and Libya. The
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has called into question the degree to which the rule of the Al Sauds remains dependent on the religious legitimization of the Wahhabi establishment.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could well dash expectations that he is gunning for a break with Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism rather than a shaving off of the rough edges of Wahhabi ideology that has been woven into the kingdom’s fabric since its founding more than eighty years ago.
Activists on the ground in the east of Khan Younis also reported that ambulances were being targeted with gas bombs by Israeli forces.
At least 525 Palestinians have been wounded on the Gaza border by Israeli occupation forces who violently suppressed protests as part of Al-Quds Day, the Ministry of Health said today.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said at least seven people were in critical condition as a result of
This is cultural genocide. It’s not Israeli food. It’s Arab (Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian). First, the Israelis take the land and ethnically cleanse it of Arabs. Now they take their food and culture and claim it’s theirs too! Shame,
– James Zogby
Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed.
Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic,
