Al-Nusra militants by the way are being identified as some of the most active dealers of black market antiques of the Middle East. Lebanese media have reported that a great number of ancient icons, crosses, reliquaries, and statues have been smuggled from Syria into Lebanon and then sent abroad. Local smugglers are said by INTERPOL to be moving hundreds of Ma’loula’s antiquities, transporting Christian antiquities to European countries
Washington’s response to the speech that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered at the UN General Assembly last September 26 confirms that the bilateral Palestinian-U.S. relations are heading for stormy times.
Washington’s partners in fighting extremism – and trampling all over international laws to do it – are the same ones who have fueled it. The Vice President of the United States just said so. And Americans are snickering over the B-word. Leaders of the free world indeed.
Image: 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014 (Reuters / Mike Segar
Image: Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals. Photo: The Commentator.
Image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in New York on 24 September (AFP)
Abbas denies mounting claims that Egypt has offered territory for a Palestinian state. Should we believe him?
Image: A handout picture released by SANA on January 25, 2014 shows families returning to their houses in the Barzeh neighborhood of Damascus after the authorities in the area repaired the infrastructures.
Image above: United States ambassador to the UN Samantha Power next to President Obama
By Reuters
(Haaretz) – The United States and partner nations are carrying out the first air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the Pentagon said late Monday, in ongoing operations that mark the opening of a new, far more complicated front in battle against the militants.
