The ISIS paradox
It is fair to say that in the last year ISIS – or ISIL, or IS, depending on your ideological standpoint – has successfully captured the imagination of the...
June 4, 2015
It is fair to say that in the last year ISIS – or ISIL, or IS, depending on your ideological standpoint – has successfully captured the imagination of the...
June 4, 2015
Interpol has identified 4,000 foreign fighters who joined jihadist groups in conflict areas, mainly Iran and Syria, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds yesterday reported a senior figure saying. “In September 2014,...
June 4, 2015
Conflicts and prolonged crises in a number of Arab states “have seen overall prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increase from the level of a quarter of a century ago”, the...
June 4, 2015
Palestinian human rights organisations are definitely taking Israel to the International Criminal Court, a leading official stressed yesterday. Speaking at a conference marking the release of a report regarding...
June 4, 2015
The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed “the sea cemetery”—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...
June 4, 2015
Hundreds of Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin took to the streets of central Tel Aviv yesterday to protest against what they said was police brutality and discrimination. Israel’s Channel...
June 4, 2015
The Turkish parliamentary election that is scheduled to take place on 7 June is considered to be the most important since the Justice and Development Party came to power...
June 4, 2015
On Sunday, the spokesperson for the Yemeni government-in-exile, Rajeh Badi, told Reuters that it had been told that Houthi representatives had flown to Muscat on a private jet at...
June 4, 2015
In “Beneath the black flag: Tunisia’s Salafists” Tunisian journalist and analyst Hedi Yahmed examines the Tunisian jihadi phenomenon. Middle East Monitor’s Christine Petré speaks to the author about his...
June 4, 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she agreed with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi on a number of issues but disagreed on others, “but we did listen to each other”....