Global IssuesNews headlines for “Middle East and North Africa Unrest”, page 2
U.N. Helpless as Saudi Flogging Violates Torture Convention
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Flogging a dead horse, as the old idiom goes, is far removed from flogging a live Saudi blogger.
OPINION: Islamic Reformation, the Antidote to Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (IPS) - The horrific terrorist attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has once again raised the question about violence and Islam. Why is it, some ask, that so much terrorism has been committed in the name of Islam, and why do violent jihadists seek justification of their actions in their religion?
OPINION: Political Islam and U.S. Policy in 2015
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 06 (IPS) - This year, Arab political Islam will be greatly influenced by U.S. regional policy, as it has been since the Obama administration came into office six years ago. Indeed, as the U.S. standing in the region rose with Obama's presidency beginning in January 2009, so did the fortunes of Arab political Islam.
OPINION: Doubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (IPS) - For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past.
OPINION: Quo Vadis? Post-Benghazi Libya
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 04 (IPS) - A concerted disinformation campaign is being conducted to manufacture consent for military action against the government in Tripoli and the town of Misrata, which has been at the forefront of toppling the despotic Gaddafi dictatorship.
Mubarak Acquitted as Egypt’s Counterrevolution Thrives
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 03 (IPS) - The acquittal of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak is not a legal or political surprise. Yet it carries serious ramifications for Arab autocrats who are leading the counterrevolutionary charge, as well as the United States.
OPINION: Israel’s Arabs: Marginalised, Angry and Defiant
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (IPS) - The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab village of Kufr Kanna, outside Nazareth, the ongoing bloody violence in Jerusalem, and the growing tensions between the Israeli security services and the Arab community in Israel could be a dangerous omen for Israeli domestic stability and for the region.
Cycle of Death, Destruction and Rebuilding Continues in Gaza
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (IPS) - When the international pledging conference to rebuild a devastated Gaza ended in Cairo over the weekend - the third such conference in less than six years - the lingering question among donors was: is this the last of it or are there more assaults to come?
OPINION: Fighting ISIS and the Morning After
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 18 (IPS) - As the wobbly anti-ISIS coalition is being formed with American prodding, the Obama administration should take a strategic look at the future of the Arab world beyond the threat posed by the self-declared Islamic State. Otherwise, the United States would be unprepared to deal with the unintended chaos.
ISIS Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing on “Historic Scale”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 03 (IPS) - While the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama ponders broader actions against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Amnesty International Tuesday accused the group of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Iraq on a "historic scale."
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