Archives for May, 2013

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (L) speaks next to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey during one of several planned ceremonies to mark the end of American military presence in Iraq, in Baghdad December 1, 2011. The last 13,000 U.S. troops will pull out of Iraq by the end of the year. Violence in the country has dropped sharply since the heights of sectarian slaughter in 2006-2007, but at least 10 people were killed in a bombing just north of the capital Baghdad. REUTERS/Khalid Mohammed/Pool (IRAQ - Tags:

صور طالباني الجديدة لا تنهي الشكوك حول مستقبله السياسي

Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker , an 18-year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi Sheet near Baalbeck May 20, 2013. About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZU7Q

حزب الله: حرب استباقيّة

A handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA, on May 20,2013, shows a vehicle which it says is an Israeli military vehicle being used by rebel fighters in Qusair near Homs city. Syrian television also showed footage of what it said was an Israeli military Jeep which it said the rebels had been using and which showed the extent of their foreign backing. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the vehicle was decommissioned a decade ago and dismissed the footage as "poor propaganda". SAN

سوريا: ماذا بعد القصير، عسكرياً وسياسياً؟

Kurds take part in a demonstration calling for the release of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, in Strasbourg, eastern France, February 16, 2013. REUTERS/Jean-Marc Loos (FRANCE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3DVAE

أكراد العراق يضغطون على تركيا لإطلاق أوجلان

Jordan's King Abdullah looks on during the opening of the Arab League summit in Doha March 26, 2013. A summit of Arab heads of state opened in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday expected to focus on the war in Syria as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (QATAR - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - RTXXXQQ

"الثورة السوريّة" في الأردن: معضلة الإسلاميّين!

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH

Mourners stand beside coffins of four members of a family killed in Basra bomb attacks, during a funeral in Najaf, around 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad May 20, 2013. More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011. The attacks increased the number kil

تفجيرات بغداد تنهي التهدئة بين الحكومة والمتظاهرين السنّة

A wheelchair-bound Palestinian woman Manal al-Satari, 37, fixes cell phones at her shop in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip April 7, 2013.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTXYBPS

نساء من غزّة ينافسن الرجال في الاقتصاد والاستثمار

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during the country's municipal elections in Beirut May 9, 2010. The voting is spread across four regions, each of which will vote on a Sunday in May. Beirut is the second region to vote today. REUTERS/ Cynthia Karam (LEBANON - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR2DNI2

أزمة في لبنان تهدّد بتقويض النظام السياسي وصيغة التعايش

The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, speaks in a rare video of him posted on the Internet on April 25, 2006. Zarqawi said Mujahideen were fighting on despite a three-year "crusader" war in Iraq. REUTERS/handout - RTR1CSXF

أبو سقار السوري .. شكل الحرب الأكثر بشاعة

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20, 2013. At least 43 people were killed in car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi capital and the southern oil hub of Basra on Monday, police and medics said. The attacks brought the number of people killed in sectarian violence in the past week to almost 200. Tensions between Shi'ites, who now lead Iraq, and minority Sunni Muslims have reached their highest level since U.S. troops pulle

تواصل الهجمات المفخخة في العراق ... وغياب الادلة الجنائية

A working tunnel, which is used to smuggle people from Egypt to Gaza, is seen in the Egyptian border city of Rafah, May 13, 2013. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTXZLC7

ما بين الرفحين.. معابر موت وأطفال مع وقف التنفيذ

A shopkeeper arranges bottles in a shop in the Zayouna area of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on May 15, 2013, the day after gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead 12 people at a row of alcohol shops in the Zayouna area of the capital. AFP PHOTO/ KHALIL AL-MURSHIDI (Photo credit should read KHALIL AL-MURSHIDI/AFP/Getty Images)

باعة المشروبات الكحولية في مرمى النيران.. من جديد

Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) gestures at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut April 5, 2013. Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, its allies and pro-Western rivals on Friday backed Sunni politician Tammam Salam to be Lebanon's new prime minister, handing him an overwhelming parliamentary endorsement to form a government. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXY9TC

بحث "إعلامي" عن قانون للإنتخابات في لبنان وخلف الكواليس تمديد طويل الأمد لمجلس النواب

تعالج هذه المقالة للكاتب إيلي الحاج مسألة إستحالة حصول انتخابات نيابية في لبنان في مواعيدها الدستورية والخلفيات.

Iraqi Shi'ite al Hawza cleric Sheikh Jassim Al-Saidi prays in a Baghdad
mosque June 3, 2003 after being released from detention by U.S. forces.
Al-Saidi said that he had been accused of instigating violence towards
American forces occupying Iraq. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber REUTERS

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قم والنجف: قلق متبادل وتنافس في الزعامة

هناك قلق متصاعد في قم من استيعاد النجف مكانتها التاريخية وسحب فراش السلطة الدينية من تحت أيديها بعد ما تصدرت الرئاسة الدينية لطائفة الشيعية لمدى ثلاثة عقود.

Christian Palestinians leave Erez border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip December 22, 2011, as they make their way to the West Bank town of Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. The Israeli army on Thursday gave permits to some 500 Christian Palestinians from Gaza to enter Israel as they make their way to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR2VJLV

"إسرائيل" تنكأ جراح المرضى على "مصيدة العابرين"

Lebanese government election officials walk past a wall on which posters of Lebanese candidates running in the country's municipal election are pasted, as they carry a ballot box ahead of the country's municipal elections, in Beirut May 8, 2010. The voting is spread across four regions, each of which will vote on a Sunday in May. Beirut will be the second region to vote on Sunday, May 9, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR2DLXT

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