This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Tag: Iraq
Islamic law and human rights: do they mix? (part II)
Muslim jurists can interpret Islamic law in a way that is consistent with international human rights law. Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and ... Read More
Tunisia urges investors to return for democracy’s sake
Tunisia has assembled almost 30 countries, 20 international institutions and dozens of private companies at an investment conference aimed at attracting investors to the country ... Read More
Egypt: El-Sisi discusses regional issues with President Abbas, Saudi FM
President El-Sisi welcomed, on separate occasions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal to discuss issues within the Middle East ... Read More
The inconvenient truth : Arab states failure to support Palestinians
Notwithstanding passionate discourses against Western responsibility and “Zionist conspiracy”, commitment to the Palestinian cause has not translated into any support. “Israel is an abnormal ... Read More
Jordan : Regional tensions prompt King to reactivate Defense Ministry
Jordan has decided to increase its security alert level by activating its defense ministry. The order came from His Majesty King Abdullah II as part ... Read More
Iraq awaits Russian weapons delivery to wage war on ISIS
Iraq could soon be forcing the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to retreat as military weapons from Russia begin to ... Read More
Libyan fighters return from the Middle East for homegrown jihad
An aide to the former Libyan Prime Minster Ali Zeidan has revealed that the country could be gearing up for a major long battle between ... Read More
Egypt and Morocco discuss regional affairs
Morocco’s Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, was in Cairo during the weekend to deliver a letter from the King to President Al-Sisi. He ... Read More
How Maliki Created Propitious Conditions for the Unraveling of Iraq
With the spectacular fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) and the humiliating retreat of the US-equipped Iraqi Security ... Read More
Iraq : Government Forces Continue to be Defeated by ISIS
The advancement of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) in Iraq has achieved another major turning point as its militants take over ... Read More