Category Arab World
Kurdish YPG in Syria
Life under the Kurdish YPG in Syria | The Syrian Intifada – Belden gives a very interesting glimpse of the YPG’s method of governance. The YPG calls its rule “libertarian socialism,” says Belden, but it’s “pretty much a Stalinist state”. Belden describes the ascetic nature of the true believers in the PKK’s ideology—of which he, […]
الرئيس التونسي يكشف عن لقاء قريب مع حفتر | بوابة الوسط–Tunisian President reveals a close encounter with Hfter | Midfield gate
كشف الرئيس التونسى الباجي قائد السبسي عن لقاء قريب يجمعه بالمشير خليفة حفتر في تونس، لإقناعه بضرورة التوافق السياسي لحل الأزمة في ليبيا، وفقًا لوكالة الأنباء الروسية «سبوتنيك».وأكد السبسي في حوار تلفزيوني بثته قناة محلية أنه يلتقي المشير خليفة حفتر قريبًا في تونس، وأن اللقاء يدخل في إطار مبادرته السياسية لحل الأزمة في ليبيا.وقال الرئيس […]
Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights – According to PCHR’s investigations and the mother’s testimony, Fawziyah Mahmoud Khamis Salhi (67) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that at approximately 02:00 on the abovementioned day, Israeli forces moved into al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas. They […]
Venezuela aboga por incorporación plena de Palestina a la ONU | La Radio del Sur
El embajador de la nación suramericana ante la ONU, Rafael Ramírez, denunció en el seno del Consejo de Seguridad que el régimen sionista se siente con fuerzas suficientes para minar todos los intentos de solución negociada al conflicto y boicotea cada iniciativa de paz. “Pareciera ser una provocación constante de Israel para seguir obteniendo territorios […]
Petition: SAY NO TO DISNEYFICATION OF COLONIZATION! Tell Disney Not to Make “Princess of North Sudan”!
highly problematic depiction of colonization. It all started in June 2014 when the daughter of Caucasian American farmer Jeremiah Heaton told her father she wanted to be a princess. Heaton responded by making a homemade flag, traveling to Egypt, crossing a desert, and claiming ownership of a contested area of land called Bir Tawil on […]
Jihadi group claims mortar attack on Hamas in Gaza | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
Hamas security forces arrested a Salafist leader last month, alleging that he was a supporter of ISIS, which holds vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. Gazan jihadis have pledged allegiance to ISIS in the past, but there has been no confirmation from the group itself that it has a presence in the coastal […]
Why is Senegal sending troops to Saudi Arabia? – BBC News
“Why would Senegalese troops go to Yemen to fight a war that is not theirs?” is a widely shared view on social media today. And many did not go far before making the link between President Macky Sall’s recent announcement that Saudi Arabia would invest heavily in the government development programme known as Programme Senegal […]
Hamas Prevents Workers Union Procession In Gaza | nsnbc international
“The DFLP hereby denounces the political arrests, and assaults, carried out by the Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip, and also by the security forces in the West Bank,” the statement reads, “The Workers Union has an unalienable right to defend the rights of the working class, and to lead the struggle for their […]
Nasrallah: Saudi to Suffer Major Defeat in Yemen, War on Syria Has Failed — Naharnet
“Saudi Arabia will suffer a major defeat that will have an impact on its domestic situation and the entire region,” said Nasrallah in an interview on Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariya news channel. He noted that the Saudi-led airstrikes have “miserably failed” to change the situation on the ground in Yemen, pointing out that the Shiite Huthi […]
Palestinians prepared to trigger case as they join ICC | Egypt Independent
Palestinian membership gives the court’s prosecutors the right to examine war crimes committed by any party on its territory after April 1, a development contested by Israel, which is not an ICC member and has no plans not cooperate. “I don’t understand the opposition unless (Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin) Netanyahu fears the court and what it […]
Iran-backed rebels loot Yemen files about U.S. spy operations – LA Times
Yemeni intelligence officers still loyal to Hadi’s besieged government burned some secret files, one official said. But they couldn’t destroy all of them before the Houthi fighters, whose leaders have received some weapons and training from Iran, moved in.The loss of the intelligence networks, in addition to the escalating conflict, contributed to the Obama administration’s […]
Palestinians prepared to trigger case as they join ICC | Egypt Independent
Palestinian membership gives the court’s prosecutors the right to examine war crimes committed by any party on its territory after April 1, a development contested by Israel, which is not an ICC member and has no plans not cooperate. “I don’t understand the opposition unless (Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin) Netanyahu fears the court and what it […]
Arab states should “strike” Gaza like Yemen, says advisor to Mahmoud Abbas | The Electronic Intifada
Arab states have a duty to “strike those who have violated legitimacy with an iron fist, regardless of the place, time or circumstances, beginning with Palestine,” said Mahmoud al-Habbash, religious affairs advisor to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas. “What happened in Gaza was a coup, not a division, and it must be addressed with firmness,” added […]
Top Hamas official answers the questions #AskHamas couldn’t
Hamas is a complicated and multifaceted organization. It simultaneously encompasses three distinct identities as a social movement, political party, and armed forces. Elected to majority control of Gaza’s government in 2006, Hamas’ military and political bureaus have separate leadership. If it is, as some Western nations label it, a terrorist organization, it’s probably the only […]
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