Archives for May, 2013

People watch Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as he appears on a screen during a live broadcast to speak to his supporters at an event marking Resistance and Liberation Day, in Bekaa valley May 25, 2013. The leader of Lebanese guerilla movement Hezbollah said his group would stay in the Syrian war "to the end of the road" and bring victory to its ally President Bashar al-Assad. Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi'ite Muslim group, said in a televised speech on Saturday Syria and Leb

واشنطن وطهران: عدوّ مشترك أو"نظرية مؤامرة"؟؟

Iraqis clean up outside a bakery after a bomb exploded on a bus nearby in Baghdad?s Shiite Sadr City district on May 28, 2013. Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 16 people, many of them security forces members, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that authorities are struggling to contain. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)

مخاوف من تصاعد الهجمات الدامية في بغداد.. بالتزامن مع مناسبة شيعيّة

President of the Syrian National Council George Sabra speaks during a conference for the reconstruction of Syria, at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3AOOH

تراجع حظوظ مؤتمر "جنيف 2" بسبب الشروط المسبقة للمعارضة

تراجع حظوظ مؤتمر "جنيف 2" بسبب الشروط المسبقة للمعارضة والنظام

A man smokes a cigarette as he sits at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, March 29, 2013. Car bombs hit four Shi'ite mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and another in Kirkuk just after prayers on Friday, tearing into crowds of worshippers and killing 17, police and witnesses said. Sunni Islamists linked to al Qaeda's Iraqi wing have stepped up attacks this year and often target Shi'ite sites in a growing sectarian confrontation a decade after the U.S.-led invasion. R

القاعدة تسعى إلى توريط السنّة في العراق

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, May 30, 2013. A car bomb and several roadside blasts exploded in Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 10 people in the latest in more than a month-long surge in attacks, police and hospital sources said. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTX105RO

العزف على وتر "الحرب الأهليّة" في العراق

Supporters of Yemen's separatist Southern Movement demonstrate in the southern port city of Aden March 18, 2013. Yemeni leaders seeking to end political upheaval started work on comprehensive reforms on Monday, with the scale of their task illustrated by the tens of thousands of protesters who marched in the south to demand their own state. REUTERS/Yaser Hasan (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3F5U7

جنوب اليمن بين الدعوة إلى الاستقلال وتهديد "القاعدة"

Kuridish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (R), Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (C) and Kurdistan Regional Government Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami attend the first International Energy Arena in Arbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20, 2012. Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting oil from its fields along a new pipeline to the Turkish border when the line is complete in August 2013, Hawrami said on Sunday. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags:

خلافات بين محامي إقليم كردستان العراق بعد إقرار قانون يسمح للمحامين الأجانب بمزاولة المهنة

Palestinian members of Hamas national security forces march during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) - RTXZUST

حماس وآفاق التغيير الحلقة الأولى: الحركة والحكومة

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) is joined by Israeli President Shimon Peres (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre, at the Dead Sea May 26, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTX101SB

كسر الجمود أم بيع الأوهام؟

Iraqis inspect the damage following fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City August 7, 2006. Two people were killed and 18 wounded when U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a suspected death squad in the mostly Shi'ite area of Sadr City in east Baghdad, a police source said. The U.S. military said they were targeting suspected members of a punishment and torture cell. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ) - RTR1G607

هل عادت "فرق الموت" إلى شوارع بغداد؟

$BAGHDAD, IRAQ - MARCH 13: A horse and cart make their way through the Bab al Sharji market, March 13, 2013 in Baghdad, Iraq. Ten years after the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled from power, Baghdad continues to show the scars of the war. In vast areas, infrastructure is fractured and basic services are lacking, however, some areas of the capital are showing promising signs of recovery. (Photo by Ali Arkady/Metrography/Getty Images)$

الحديث عن الحرب الأهليّة يصيب حركة بغداد التجاريّة بالشلل

JABALIYA, GAZA - MARCH 29: A Palestinian shop-owner reads a newspaper outside his store on March 29, 2010, Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. Gaza's economy and employment levels have plummeted since the Israelis imposed a blockade after Hamas seized control in 2007. (Photo by Warrick Page/Getty Images)

انتهاك حريّة التعبير في غزّة.. مستمرّ

Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani votes in Iraq's constitutional referendum in the northern city of Arbil October 15, 2005. Iraqis headed to the polls in an historic referendum on Saturday, with up to 15 million eligible voters deciding on a controversial new post-Saddam Hussein constitution that its backers hope will unite the torn country. Amid intense security, including a ban on all traffic, voters flowed on foot to polling stations across Baghdad as they opened at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT). They are due to close

المعارضة الكرديّة ترفض بشدّة مسوّدة دستور إقليم كردستان

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (R) and Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), hold a news conference in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Haider Ala (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXZEUT

مقتدى الصدر: نداء أخير إلى المالكي بعد سلسلة تفجيرات بغداد

A view shows the remains of a rocket, which residents say was recently fired into the mainly Shi'ite town of Hermel, about 30 km (20 miles) north of Arsal May 28, 2013. Several rockets have been fired into Hermel in the past 24 hours. One of them killed a woman and wounded two people, the Lebanese army said. REUTERS/Rami Bleibel (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) - RTX1041R

تخوّف في لبنان من تحوّله فعلاً إلى ساحة قتال بين النصرة وحزب الله

Palestinian travellers pass an Egyptian soldier standing guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border, to cross over to Gaza at Rafah city, some 350 km (217 miles) northeast of Cairo, May 22, 2013. Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi announced a new crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. Their abduction underlined the threat posed by jihadists who became active in a security vacuum t

الإسلاميّون في مصر لم يُحدثوا أيّ تغيير جذري في معبر رفح