A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- By PressTV New research shows a substantial decrease in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins. The New York Times published a report on Tuesday about the research carried out by NASA and the University of California, Irvine on the Middle Eastern river system. “Scientists… found during a seven-year […]
Updated – By Associated Press CAIRO — Residents of the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh say more than 100 people have demonstrated to call for the release of people detained without charge. Saudi security officials say they arrested at least five people. They spoke anonymously in line with police regulations. Dozens of security vehicles blocked the intersections […]
Blair: fight against al-Qaida could last a generation (The Guardian) Former PM likens battle to struggle against communism and warns that cost of standing aside would be far greater – By Press Association, The Guardian The west’s fight against al-Qaida is like the battle against revolutionary communism, says Tony Blair, who warns that it could last for a generation. The former […]
- By Fred Gedrich, The Washington Times The conflict raging in Syria for 20-plus months to oust Bashar Assad from power has evolved into a sectarian battle for Middle East supremacy by two ancient enemies: Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Sunni rebels appear poised for victory. It’s vitally important for the Obama administration to discourage a new Syrian government from supplanting the secular dictatorship […]
- By Abu Anas and Adnan Khan, Revolution Observer.com The year 2012 has ended, leaving many global issues and conflicts around the world such as the Arab Spring in the Middle East, to instability in Africa, to financial markets and budget deficits in Europe and North America. With this in mind, the Revolution Observer highlights […]
- By Al Bawaba With the crisis in Syria seemingly never ending, the question of Russia’s influence in the world has resurfaced. The former Soviet state has been playing its hand in the Arab world with an eye to widening its influence. While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be glad of the Slavic support, the history of Muslim/Russian relations inside the ex communist […]
- By Adnan Khan When the history books are finally written December 2010 will long remain in the memory of the Muslim world. What began with a single man in the markets of Tunisia spread to thousands on the streets in Cairo and evolved to hundreds of thousands demanding political change for the entire region. […]
- By Dr. Mohammad Malkawi Until the defeat of the Ottomans following World War I, Transjordan, today known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, had been part of the Syrian administrative unit. In March 1921, the British Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, convened the Cairo Conference that endorsed an arrangement whereby Transjordan would be added to […]
By Patrick Seale This past year has dealt a heavy blow — perhaps even a terminal one — to the project, long supported by the international community, of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of two states. When the United States itself proved unable to halt Israel’s relentless land grab, it seemed that nothing […]
By Harriet Sherwood Binyamin Netanyahu has launched a scathing attack on the uprisings in the Middle East, saying that Arab countries are “moving not forward, but backward” and support from the US and European countries was naive. The Israeli prime minister said the Arab spring was becoming an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave”. Speaking […]
