Inside Saudi Arabia’s campaign to charm American policymakers and journalists: Soon after launching a brutal air and ground assault in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began devoting significant resources to a sophisticated public relations blitz in Washington, D.C. The PR campaign is designed to maintain close ties with

Sunni tribes joining Shia militias as war against IS heats up in Iraq –: KARBALA, Iraq – Wearing elegant gold-fringed robes and traditional Arab head-dresses, three Sunni tribal leaders waited respectfully in an upstairs reception room inside the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala one morning last week. The shrine is one of Shia

from Iraq to Syria: repeating a debacle: Proof that the British political class hasn’t learned anything after Iraq came with David Cameron’s ludicrous assertion that there are 70,000 moderate rebels fighting in Syria. It was an outright fabrication to rank with Blair’s sexed up dossier on

The spread of Wahhabism, and the West’s responsibility to the world: François Hollande’s declaration of war against Isis (also known as Islamic State) was, perhaps, a natural reaction to the carnage in Paris but the situation is now so grave that we cannot merely react; we also need sustained, informed

ISIL Created by US Interventionism, Saudi Money & Wahhabi Ideology – Assad: Commenting on the origins of the Islamist terrorism plaguing the Middle East, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad noted that terror groups including Al-Qaeda and ISIL have been able to find fertile soil in Iraq as a result of US interventionism,

Former NATO commander Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS serves the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia’:   Former Supreme NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark is quite a character. Immediately after the Kosovo War, Clark actually ordered NATO troops to attack Russian peacekeeping troops (the order was ignored). But sometimes he does or says things which

Senator Richard Black: War in Syria would end if US stopped supporting terrorists: Virginia State Senator and decorated Vietnam veteran Richard Black says it like it is. The United States continues to supply terrorists in Syria with weapons, making them a grave threat to global security as well as deepening the conflict

why Turkey stabbed Russia in the back: It’s absolutely impossible to understand why the Turkish government would engage in the suicidal strategy of downing a Russian Su-24 over Syrian territory – technically a NATO declaration of war on Russia – without putting in context the Turkish

نصیرالدین طارق – سب جیالوں کے بھائی جان – عامر حسینی:   پی پی پی خانیوال کے سٹی صدر شیخ عرفان کا فون آیا کہ بھائی جان نصیر فوت ہوگئے میں اس کے بعد ایک ایک کرکے اپنے سینئرز، جونئرز جیالے دوستوں کے فون سنتا رہا اور ہم سب ایک

Will the UK target the tankers being used by the Erdogan regime to facilitate oil smuggling by ISIS?: In the ongoing debate in the UK on whether or not to “bomb ISIS”, PM Cameron and his cabinet are deliberately omitting any mention of related extremist groups in Syria like the various factions of Al Qaeda and their

داعش کے بھوت میں انسانیت تلاش کرنے کا مغربی جنون – عامر حسینی: آج ڈیوڈ کیمرون کی سربراہی میں ہونے والے برطاننوی کابینہ کے اجلاس میں شام میں ” داعش ” کے ٹھکانوں پر بمباری کرنے کی قرارداد کی اصولی طور پر منظوری دے دی گئی جبکہ برطانوی پارلیمنٹ سے اس قرار

سانحۂ پشاورمیں ملوث چار تکفیری دہشت گردوں کو پھانسی دے دی گئی: سانحۂ پشاورمیں ملوث چار تکفیری دہشت گردوں کو پھانسی دے دی گئی، جہنم رسید کیے جانے والوں میں دیوبندی مولوی عبد السلام شامل ہے پاکستان کے عسکری ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ صوبہ خیبر پختونخوا کے دارالحکومت پشاور میں

The shrine that is the Lahore Museum – Ayaz Amir: On Sunday with my son Sheheryar I went to the Lahore Museum after a long time. The word epiphany, or revelation, I find is a bit over-used these days but it was very much like that. I have stood

Iran, Hezbollah and Russia – the real coalition – Ayaz Amir: Daesh or the Islamic State is the most extreme form of Salafist Islam, so toxic that it makes the Taliban look mild and Al-Qaeda look like a backward cousin. Al-Qaeda was only an ideology, Daesh is ideology plus geography.

One of the world’s biggest and most dangerous pilgrimages is underway: One of the biggest pilgrimages in the world is underway, with millions of Shia Muslims risking their lives to travel through Iraq. They are making their way to the city of Karbala, 62 miles south-west of Baghdad, for the

Ishtiaq Ahmed — Tracing Pakistan’s fundamentalist transition: A few days ago, I read about the demise of Urdu novelist Ishtiaq Ahmed. I was introduced to him in the early days of my childhood when I had just discovered the pleasures of reading. My uncle, who was

Russian Pilot Rescued by Iran’s General Soleimani:   Russian sources revealed on Thursday that the pilot of the Russian Su-24 jet that was shot down by Turkey over the Syrian airspace on Tuesday was rescued in an operation by Iran’s globally renowned IRGC Qods Force Commander

Pakistan’s Ahmadis face persecution, threats from local mobs and the state:   “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family

The West still not getting it – Ayaz Amir: The present turmoil began from Syria and from the desire of a range of countries, western and Arab and including Turkey, to get rid of Bashar al-Assad. By aiding the opposition to Assad they helped fuel the fires of

ISIS claims attack on Shia mosque in Bangladesh: SITE: Editor’s note: Shia Genocide continues in Bangladesh Takfiri Deobandis of Ansar Allah attack Shia mosque in Bangladesh killing one and injuring two. DHAKA: The militant Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on worshippers at