The war on iraq after the devastating attacks on World Trade Centre, took on the colour of anti-terror struggle, and after the crackdown of Saddam Hussain, it became very obvious that the responsibility of putting back Iraq on it's proper way of life...
More than 40 people died and 255 were injured as fresh violence broke out in Basra, the southern city of Iraq and the third largest city with a population of approximately 2.6 million, where Shia militants continue to battle the security forces. Nouri...
There might be a war going on in Iraq, but the daily humdrum lives of millions of Iraqis goes on. And what is bothering the common people of the war torn country the most is the lack of electricity. It does come, but the supply is erratic. What has led...
The future of the Gaza strip and the West Bank remains again in a loop even as Hamas and Fatah have signed a reconciliation deal sponsored by Yemen at Sanaa. The deal, which is being referred to as the Sanaa Declaration was signed between the Hamas...
Overcome by continuous instability along its coastal strip bordering Gaza that is threatening a population explosion with exodus of Palestinian refugees breaching the Rafah border and growing prominence of Iranian influence in the politics of western...
MSNBC tells us that the heads of Islamic nations have just concluded a high level meeting at Dakar, Senegal. The Muslim heads of states are worried how Islam is portrayed by Western countries. The delegates were each given a tome prepared by the...
Now that President Bush is on his way out and the US has been left red-faced by the Iraqi invasion; scapegoats have to be found. And whom better than an erstwhile Iraqi named Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka Curveball. TimesOnline goes all out to prove the...
Children are always the innocent victims of war. The Israeli attacks on the Palestinians in the occupied territories have rendered a large number of Palestinian children victims of mental ill-health. According to an Israeli human rights...
The Middle East problem has all but ceased to surprise us. In conversation the other day, a relative working in Israel as a precious-stone jeweller spoke with evident disgust against everything Jewish. He spoke how Jews in spite of being only an...
The killing of eight rabbinical students by an East Jerusalem Palestinian is worrying news for Israel. There had been no suicide bombing in the last few years in the country. Thursday's shooting has shattered that comforting fact. It also reflects the...
The mainstream media wants to appear objective and universally true. Yet nothing is ever ideologically unbiased. Take the case of the BBC reporting on Israel’s incursions into the Gaza Strip. The BBC first declares the error of it all; how Israel...
Young Iraqis are finding it difficult to cope up with their political and religious condition. More and more youngsters are losing faith. They are ignorant about whom to turn to and whom to trust. A country battling with extremism and dictatorship,...
No wonder the Palestine issue is not getting solved. When we have such a stubborn and inflexible president in the US. The latest exposure by Vanity Fair brings out the fact clearly. It has made clear the fact that however much the Hamas might be...
The United Nation Security Council has once again managed to implement the foreign policies of individual countries as its own. On Monday, the UN Security Council voted for new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment...
President Ahmadinejad is visiting Iraq. The US forces rather ungraciously stayed away from providing security (or was it Iran did not want it) during his visit. Even a helicopter was not provided. Bush just the other day called on Iran to 'quit...
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