Tag - Middle East
Having suffered setbacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Al Qaeda has turned its attention towards an impoverished Yemen to relaunch the Islamic Jihad against Western targets both in the Arabian peninsula and abroad. Since the september eleventh bombings in...
A major military exercise carried out by Israel earlier this month has given rise to the speculation of a possible military aggression against Iranian nuclear establishments by Israel. Rumors doing the rounds in media are strongly supported by US...
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Gulf politics, Greece-Israel Joint Military Exercise, Iran Nuclear Embroglio, Global, Israel, Iran, Mediterranean, Crete, Shaul Mofaz, nuclear weapons program, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, Middle East
Is Iran’s controversial nuclear program starting a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? If a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is to be believed, then at least 13 countries in the region are exploring...
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...
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 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...
When God saw man dividing the earth into countries he had laughed at another human folly. And now both Israelis and Palestinians want to claim God for their own. Both the Jews and the Palestinians want to occupy land in the name of Yahweh and Allah....
US government has imposed tough sanctions against Iranian military, a clear sign of escalation of hostilities between Washington and Tehran over the nuclear standoff. It is a very rare thing to see the Americans target a country's military...
The big organizations, like Amnesty International, human rights commissions and above all UN, always talk about the widespread corruption and violence against humanity. Mind you, these things have not started happening recently, particularly in the...
Jews have been chased and ill treated for too long and even now they are not allowed to rest. Palestinians have been made the pawns of international power-brokers and they are a ruined lot today. Though Israel is relatively better off as a nation,...
The completion of a rare reconciliation agreement between Shias and Sunnis for the cessation of violence in the south-western part of Baghdad may have rekindled faint hopes of a broader act of restraint, but the ultimate road to peace in Iraq is a...
Simmering border tensions between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish rebels seem to have come to a boil, with Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, defying the US with steps to counter cross border terrorism, while on the other hand Kurdish...
Hardly does a day pass without reports of violence and death screaming all around in Iraq. Iraq is trapped in a sectarian violence that is fast spiraling out of control and although the Bush administration is always trying to put up a brave face...
Iranian and US altercations are well known and their cross allegations are nothing new. However, new is what it may be called as the shift (as it seems) in Iranian mood. Surprised, might be. Yes, according to latest revelations, Iran has pledged to...
The prolonged state of violence and large-scale conflict may have dropped down a bit across Iraq in the recent past, if compared to past years, even it is not enough to call the volatile place a safe state because civilian are sill dying and that...
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