Six powers have signed the treaty with Iran in Geneva; with Obama at the head, the golden dream of Western liberals has come true. Iran has gained time, an access to part of its frozen assets and a stable channel of influence on the West. Western diplomats and politicians got the chance of telling the […]
by Daniel Pipes November 23, 2013 Angola‘s Minister of Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva is reported to have declared Islam an illegal religion in the country because it is not an approved list of religions, and to have banned it. Comment: It will be interesting to follow this surely-doomed effort. Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia […]
Technical experts from Iran, world powers and the UN atomic watchdog will start working out on Monday the nuts and bolts of implementing last month’s landmark nuclear deal, reports AFP. In particular, noted the news agency, the two-day Vienna meeting will seek to nail down the start date of Iran’s promised six-month freeze of parts […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped yet another bombshell allegation: President Obama wasn’t honest with the American people when he blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack in that killed hundreds of civilians. In early September, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had “proof” that the nerve-gas attack was made on […]
The international chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria’s unfilled munitions, another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Al-Assad’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014, reports The Associated Press (AP). The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement quoted by AP that its […]
A powerful explosion was heard on Friday evening in the Golan Heights, near an IDF vehicle that was on routine patrol along the Syrian-Israeli border, near the slopes of Mount Hermon. No one was injured as a result of the explosion, but damage was caused to the rear window of the military vehicle. The explosion […]
Algerian officials killed a high-ranking Al Qaeda leader Wednesday in a high-speed chase through the Southern Algerian desert, Al Arabiya reports. An official from the city of Tamanrasset spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity and claimed that two four-wheel-drive vehicles – one of which was carrying Khalil Ould Addah, also known as Abu Bassen – […]
A military court in Gaza on Thursday sentenced a man to death by hanging, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The Hamas-run court found the man – identified only as A.K. – guilty of collaborating with Israeli authorities, without providing further details, said the news agency. On June 22, the Gaza government hanged two men […]
Western states have held their first “face-to-face” discussions with Syria’s main Islamist rebel groups, according numerous media reports. The meeting between western states, including the US, and the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), was attended by Turkish and Qatari representatives and was held in the Turkish capital Ankara. It marks a shift in policy for US […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Obama supported “opposition fighters” abducted 12 nuns from a Christian village overrun by rebels, Syria’s Greek Orthodox patriarch and the head of a convent said Tuesday, adding to fears that hard-line Muslim terrorist that Obama has publicly backed are trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad were increasingly targeting Christians for genocide […]
