Thema: Arabische Welt

„In an online video, Saudi family therapist Khaled Al-Saqaby imparted advice on marital strife. Beating one’s wife, said Al-Saqaby, should be intended as a means of discipline, rather than to vent one’s anger, and should be carried out not with a rod or a sharp object, but with a tooth-cleaning…

„Recent comments by Iranian military personnel suggest that their support for the Assad government in the Syrian Civil War includes previously unknown contributions by the country’s conventional armed forces (the Artesh). Specifically, the deployment of advisors including those from the 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade. This revelation is significant because…

„Der Vater der Handschlag-Verweigerer, der zwei Buben, die in Therwil ihrer Lehrerin die Hand nicht mehr reichen, wird als Imam in der König-Faysal-Moschee in Basel in den höchsten Tönen gepriesen: ‚Er ist ein Vorbild für uns Muslime‘, sagt Arab Nabil, Geschäftsführer der König-Faysal-Stiftung, die wegen ihrer undurchsichtigen Finanzierung ins Visier…

„The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be…

„As Hezbollah, Iran and Assad are relentlessly using ‚Palestine‘ to justify their massacres and interference in Syria, we have rarely heard a word of sympathy toward the Syrian people from Palestinian political and public figures. As a matter of fact, except for a couple of writers, Palestinian journalists, intellectuals and…

„In Ägypten war der Hidschab in den 1950er Jahren für viele Frauen undenkbar. Heute ist die Verschleierung zurück. Das zeigt: Die Vorstellungen vom Islam verändern sich.“ (Die ägyptisch-amerikanische Professorin für Frauenstudien Leila Ahmed in einem Gastbeitrag für Zeit Online: „Hidschab: Die Rückkehr des Kopftuchs“)

„The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain on Monday published a list of 68 Islamist groups it classified as ‚terrorist,‘ according to the state news agency BNA. Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, already branded as ‚terrorist‘ by the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League, topped the list approved by Bahrain’s cabinet, BNA…

„Diplomacy has meanwhile made little progress with no compromise over the future of President Bashar al-Assad, his position strengthened by Iranian and Russian military support. A top Iranian official, in comments to Iran TV, rejected what he described as a U.S. request for Tehran’s help to make Assad leave power,…

„Two of Rabe’s brothers, Hassan and Hameed, were arrested in 2012 for helping to treat protesters injured while demonstrating against the Assad regime, Rabe said. Both had gone to pharmacy school, and had their own shop in Aleppo where they sold medicine. Rabe said they were detained for two months…

„Once driven to near irrelevance by the rise of Islamic State abroad and security crackdowns at home, al Qaeda in Yemen now openly rules a mini-state with a war chest swollen by an estimated $100 million in looted bank deposits and revenue from running the country’s third largest port. If…

„The women in the Syrian city of Raqqa suffer greatly under the oppression of the terrorist organization ‚Islamic State.‘ DW had exclusive access to some of those women, who spoke about their daily lives.“ (hier)

„‚Schlecht organisierte Terrorgruppen leben nicht lang‘, sagt Leah Farrall von der Universität Sydney, Expertin für die Geschichte des Dschihadismus (‚The Arabs at War in Afghanistan‘). ‚Der IS profitiert davon, dass er Formulare und Prozesse von Al-Kaida geerbt hat.‘ Die straffe Organisation ist aber nur die Oberfläche. Viel brisanter ist der…

Von Thomas von der Osten-SackenWie oft hat man das Argument im Zusammenhang mit Syrien schon gehört? Libyen sei doch ein abschreckendes Beispiel, was passiere, wenn es zu einer westlichen Intervention im sogenannten „arabischen Frühling“ käme. Dem Sturz Gaddafis sei doch nur Chaos und Bürgerkrieg gefolgt.  Ein guter syrischer Freund von mir…

„Russia decided to partially withdrawal its troop from Syria due to Moscow’s disappointment over failures by pro-regime Iranian and Hezbollah forces to achieve victories against opposition forces fighting to topple the Assad government, the Saudi news-site Elaph reported Monday night. According to the report, Russia had been concerned about air…

„U.S. Navy ships in the Arabian Sea intercepted and seized an arms shipment from Iran likely bound for Houthi fighters in Yemen, the military said in a statement on Monday. … White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday that Iran’s support for the Houthis is an example of its…