FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Yesterday I had the honor of meeting Barry Rubin, one of the most knowledgeable people around about the Mideast. One of the questions I asked him was this: FZ: We know that Syria is closely allied with Iran, receiving a large amount of weapons and other aid. We also know that Syria is helping Sunni insurgents [...]
Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Jules Crittenden offers an inspiring glimpse into a battle waged far from Afghanistan and Iraq: What does it mean to be a Marine when you are one of the maimed at Walter Reed on Veterans Day? “Everything,” Cpl. Peter Bagarella, 21, of Falmouth said simply. Theirs is the story of service and sacrifice behind the statistics. “This place is awesome. They gave me my eyes back,”...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court sentenced to death four men involved in a Shi'ite rebellion in its northern provinces bordering Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, while Iran denied a Yemeni claim to have seized a ship with arms for the rebels.
US News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Iraq surge's "success" is a myth, not a foundation for sound military strategy.
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Twin car bombings devastated the heart of Baghdad Sunday. The first one devastated the Ministry of Justice, while the second one targeted the Baghdad Provincial Administration building. Hundreds were wounded and the death toll so far is at 155, including a number of children. There are hundreds of funerals going on today. SO, whodunnit, and why? President Maliki blamed the remnants of al-Qaeda and...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
A senior Iraqi Shia cleric has called for the ouster of U.S. occupation troops and U.S. firms working in Iraq.2009/10/25
Sify (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
A delay in the January parliamentary election could lead to chaos, a top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader warned Friday, as lawmakers remained deadlocked over legislation that would regulate
Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills) (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I think C.I. covered the Thursday hearing of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and then some. (As you can see after I'm done weighing in.) But I want to cover a few things. Or at least emphasize them. As C.I. points out in the snapshot (citing a friend who's a veterans' advocate), they never asked the important question. Wednesday, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki...
France24 (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
An Iraqi woman casts her ballot in Sadr City. Large crowds of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voted to select candidates to run in Iraq's election in January -- in the first such vote since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
An Iraqi woman casts her ballot in Sadr City. Large crowds of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voted to select candidates to run in Iraq's election in January -- in the first such vote since the fall of Saddam Hussein. A young girl watches a man dip his finger in indelible ink before he casts a ballot in Sadr City. Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr visits Istanbul in May...
Time (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
The Prime Minister without a coalition forms one of his own to try to win four more years of power in the war-ravaged country
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Baghdad - Two policemen were killed on Monday when a man driving a tanker truck near a police station detonated explosives rigged to the vehicle, police told local media. The driver was also killed, police west of Ramadi in Iraq's Sunni heartland, to...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Baghdad - Iraq is at a crucial juncture in its history, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Sunday in a speech to Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders. We are at a crucial, sensitive moment, al-Maliki said in televised remarks. It requires us to make...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
RENEWED fighting in northern Yemen between government and rebel forces is feeding fears that a Middle Eastern proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is spreading to the ungoverned spaces of the southern Arabian peninsula. But Western analysts are staring boggle-eyed at quite a different spectre: the prospect that the biggest beneficiaries of Yemeni weakness will be the jihadis of al-Qaeda.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Yemen President Ali Abdallah Saleh yesterday told Al-Jazeera TV that unofficial Iranian elements and Iraqi Shi'ite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr were in direct contact with the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and that they had even secretly offered to mediate ... September 10, 2009, 12:22 pm
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