Thema: Arabische Welt

„The Obama administration has proposed a new agreement on Syria to the Russian government that would deepen military cooperation between the two countries against some terrorists in exchange for Russia getting the Assad regime to stop bombing U.S.-supported rebels. The United States transmitted the text of the proposed agreement to…

„According to the upcoming report from the House Benghazi Committee, President Barack Obama skipped his personal daily intelligence briefing the day after he 2012 Benghazi attacks. The revelation is buried in one of the appendices to the 800-page report released by the Republican-controlled committee Tuesday. (…) That day’s briefing contained…

„Some young Arabs want Islam, the religion of Muslims, to be separated from politics and governments in Middle Eastern countries. Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar is a writer and humanist. He is a former refugee from Iraq. He created the Global Secular Humanist Movement in 2009 to support human interests and the…

„Families of fallen soldiers have accused the Assad regime of burning the corpses of their children and disfiguring them in order to avoid paying compensation to the soldiers’ families. Al-Souria Net learned from two families of fallen Syrian army soldiers that the regime is resorting to this behavior because of…

Ein 23jähriger Kuwaiti hat seinen eigenen Bruder erschlagen. Weil der während des gerade stattfindenden Ramadan nicht gefastet und gebetet hatte, warf ihm der Täter vor, vom Glauben abgefallen zu sein, was im konservativen Islam als todeswürdiges Verbrechen gilt und in einigen muslimischen Ländern von Amts wegen mit der Todesstrafe sanktioniert…

„Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and breakdown of the Iraqi state, ethno-sectarian partition has become a popular political mantra. The assumption is that a federal state based on three autonomous regions – Sunni Arab, Shiite Arab and Kurd – is the most realistic way to stabilize Iraq…

„After almost two decades of silenced guns, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) decided earlier this year to resume its decades-long campaign for self-rule in the country. ‚We want to be closer to our people and we want the Islamic Republic to listen to our demands,‘ said Khalid Azizi,…

„Cracked tombstones litter the cemetery behind Djerba’s Great Synagogue, but it was not vandals who broke them. Hundreds of Jewish families have moved away from this Tunisian island community in the past five decades, digging up their relatives’ remains to take with them and leaving only the slabs of marble…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Gestern fragte ich, wie wohl die Reaktionen ausfallen werden, wenn kaum noch zu verleugnen ist, dass die russische Luftwaffegezielt  Streubomben und weißen Phosphor in Syrien einsetzt: „Was jetzt geschehen wird? Vielleicht protestiert ja das US-State Department. Und irgendwer wird vermutlich eine Petition bei change.org lancieren.…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Den Verdacht gab es schon länger: Immer wieder warfen syrische Oppositionelle der russischen Luftwaffe vor, Streubomben in Syrien einzusetzen. Als sich vergangenes Jahr Hinweise dann verdichteten, dass diese international geächteten Waffen, über Wohngebieten in Nordsyrien abgeworfen wurden, gab die US-Administration ihre sonst übliche Zurückhaltung gegenüber…

„At least 1,195 journalists have been killed because of their work since 1992, including several this month. Prosecutions have occurred in fewer than 3 percent of those cases. (…) Iraq, Somalia, the Philippines and Syria have the highest rates of unpunished killings of journalists in the last ten years. Since…

„Joudi al-Omeri drove in circles. And when cars came in her direction, she swerved. These were electric bumper cars, but in Saudi Arabia, the ride doesn’t always live up to its name. ‚I come here to drive,‘ said Ms. al-Omeri, a 27-year-old homemaker still giddy from the roughly five-minute, mostly…

„U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan. The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become…

„According to a growing number of NGOs, they are now ‚child slaves,‘ as gone is the endearing euphemism of ‚forced labor.‘ At least 80 percent of Syrian kids in the Bekaa Valley work in the fields for around four dollars a day, and because the rent on their tents is…

„When the Farhud – which means, in Arabic, ‚violent dispossession‘ – erupted, there were around 90,000 Jews still living in the Iraqi capital, the main component of a vibrant community descended from the sages who, 27 centuries earlier, had made the land once known as Babylon the intellectual and spiritual…