Christmas 2018 in Damascus, Old City, without mortars from Eastern Ghouta since its liberation in April 2018. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) By Vanessa Beeley | 21st Century Wire | January 2, 2019 The West and its allies in the Gulf States, Turkey and Israel have waged an eight year war against the Syrian people. The West […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | December 31, 2018 As surely as night follows day, in the wake of Saudi Arabia assuming the lead role in the Afghan peace talks, Tehran has unveiled an analogous peace process involving the Taliban. (See my article in Asia Times Saudi Arabia takes charge of Afghan peace […]
RT | December 28, 2018 Attempts by Arab states to mend ties with Damascus serve to bolster the Syrian government’s victories on the ground and may well see the West changing its attitude towards the country, Middle East experts have told RT. The first sign of a thaw between Syria and its Arab neighbors came […]
American Muslims for Palestine | December 12, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last Wednesday, a group of prominent and select American Muslim leaders traveled to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the fifth annual conference of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS), which is sponsored by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdullah […]
Al-Manar | December 12, 2018 Spokesman for Yemen’s revolutionary Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdulsalam, who heads a delegation in the ongoing peace talks in Sweden, said the presence of foreign forces in the Arabian Peninsula country cannot be justified. Speaking to the Arabic-language al-Masirah TV on Tuesday night, Abdulsalam said the foreign troops’ presence in Yemen […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | December 10, 2018 The annual summit meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh on Sunday was particularly important for Saudi Arabia as a display of its regional leadership. But the short meeting of the GCC leaders behind closed doors, lasting for less than an hour, […]
Press TV – November 25, 2018 The media in Tel Aviv have reported that the UAE has invested as much as $100 million in an ambitious Israeli project to pipe natural gas to Europe. The investment would be made by a company based in Abu Dhabi for a pipeline project which is internationally known to […]
Its almost science fiction, only it’s not quite off the ground yet. If they can make it work, Ponch and Jon may be getting a run for their money as the Emiratis attempt to make the highway patrol cool again.
Dubai police are pushing the envelope on this new idea: the new Hoverbike S3 police vehicle – designed to skip over highways, roads and walls.
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | November 8, 2018 The reported plan by the United Arab Emirates to reopen its embassy in Damascus shortly leads to a startlingly new alignment on the map of the Middle East. At the most obvious level, it signals the realization among the Gulf States that the brutal […]
