Archives for February, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured on-screen speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington March 4, 2012. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2YU77

أيباك تحدّد "مبادئ توجيهية" لاتفاق نووي مع إيران

تطالب "لجنة الشؤون العامة الأميركية الإسرائيلية" (أيباك) الكونغرس بممارسة ضغوط على إيران.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam speaks at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut February 15, 2014. Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighbouring Syria worsened internal instability. Parliament designated Sunni lawmaker Salam as prime minister in April 2013, but he had been unable to form a government for months due to rivalries between the Hezbollah-dominated March 8 bloc and the March 14 alliance, led

كيف يحارب الإرهاب التكفيري ؟

Masked Sunni Muslims gunmen take up position with their weapons during clashes with Iraqi security forces outside the city of Falluja, 70 km (44 miles) west of Baghdad, February 23, 2014. Members of the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are holed up inside Fallujah along with Sunni fighters angry at Prime Minister Nouri Maliki over what they say are policies which discriminate against Iraq's Sunni minority. The Iraqi government declared a ceasefire over the weekend but clashes flared periodica

الحكومة العراقية بحاجة ماسة الى مراكز استشارية متخصصة

Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq (L), Acting Director General of the Internal Security Forces Major General Ibrahim Basbous (2nd L) and head of the Internal Security Force's Information Branch Colonel Imad Othman (R) inspect a map at the ISF headquarters to locate the site of the explosion that occured near the Iranian cultural centre in the southern suburbs of Beirut February 19, 2014. The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed a twin bomb attack in Beirut on Wednesday, saying such at

بيان الحكومة: السجال سني - شيعي والحلول مسيحية؟!

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves after attending a ceremony with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem January 21, 2014. Harper told Israel's parliament on Monday any comparison between the Jewish state and apartheid South Africa was "sickening", drawing a standing ovation - and an angry walkout by two Arab legislators. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX17O8X

المحادثات بين حماس وإسرائيل ما زالت مبكرة

خطر التصعيد في سوريا

إدوارد دارك يكتب أن أبناء حلب سيدفعون ثمن أي تصعيد في الحرب؛ مجلس الأمن الدولي يصوّت على قرار يدعم بموجبه وصول المساعدات الإنسانية إلى سوريا ويدعو إلى تعاون أكبر لمواجهة تنظيم "القاعدة" هناك؛ واستطلاع مع 16 صحافية يغطّين الأحداث في الشرق الأوسط؛ وتقرير عن طرد الجن في غزة.

Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, February 18, 2014. Sadr stuck to his decision to leave political life and dissolve his movement, saying that politics had become a way to inflict injustice. Sadr, who led revolts against U.S. forces in Iraq before their pullout and became a major influence in the government, initially announced his retirement on Saturday via a handwritten statement on his website. REUTERS/Handout/Office of Moqtada al-Sadr (IRAQ - Tag

مقتدى الصدر: اعتزال ام إعادة تموضع؟

مغنّي راب سابق التحق بالجهاديّين لا يزال حيّاً في سوريا

أظهرت أشرطة فيديو حديثة أنّ ديزو دوغ الملقّب بأبو طلحة الألماني والذي اعتُقد أنّه توفّي في غارة جويةّ لا يزال حيّاً وهو ناشط في صفوف الجهاديّين في سوريا.

FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-PALESTINIAN-EXORCISM - Ziad al-Tatar, a 38-year-old Palestinian exorcist, uses a Koran placed on a man's chest and readings from the Koran piped through earphones and honey to exorcise a demon from a patient. In his spartan clinic, adorned with framed Koranic verses, Tatar admits to a steady stream of patients stricken with ailments ranging from impotence to infiltration by devils known in Arabic as Djinn.

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العلاج الروحاني في غزة يزداد رغم مقتل فتاة بسببه

Abdelmadjid Menasra, leader of the Islamist party Front of Change (FC), casts his ballot during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Algiers May 10, 2012. Algerians voted on Thursday for a new parliament that officials say will bring democracy to a country left behind by the "Arab Spring" revolts, but many people showed their scepticism by abstaining. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR31UYV

زعيم معارض جزائري يتحدث عن الانتخابات القادمة

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.
A student draws a pattern for a Persian handmade carpet as she sits in a classroom in Isfahan Art University, 450 km (280 miles) south of Tehran November 14, 2011. Persian carpet weaving is a historical part of Iranian culture, dating back to as far as approximately 2,000 years ago. Persian carpets can be mostly divided into three size groups: large (3x4 metre

معضلة التعليم العالي في إيران

الزيادة في عدد الجامعات الخاصة لم تساهم في تعزيز مستوى العمل البحثي وجودته في إيران.

لبنان يشهد ثلاثة أحداث متنوّعة

إنّ الإعلان عن حكومة جديدة في لبنان لم يكن الخبر الوحيد في البلد هذا الأسبوع.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam speaks at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut February 15, 2014. Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighbouring Syria worsened internal instability. Parliament designated Sunni lawmaker Salam as prime minister in April 2013, but he had been unable to form a government for months due to rivalries between the Hezbollah-dominated March 8 bloc and the March 14 alliance, led

حكومة "الإعتدال" و "مكافحة الإرهاب التكفيري"

A resident buys newspapers from a kiosk in Baghdad February 23, 2009. A boom in local media since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 has given Iraqis a choice between some 200 print outlets, 60 radio stations and 30 TV channels in Arabic, Turkmen, Syriac and two Kurdish dialects. Yet most media outlets remain dominated by sectarian and party patrons who use them for their own ends, and have yet to become commercially sustainable enterprises let alone watchdogs keeping government under scrutiny, the favoured West

صحفيون عراقيون يخشون من "الرقابة الداخلية" بعد صدور مذكرة إلقاء قبض بحق صحافي

A Palestinian man looks at the Facebook page of Avichay Adraee, the spokesman of the Israeli Army to the Arabic media, after hackers replaced his cover photo with that of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade during the "#Op_Israel" campaign launched by the activist group Anonymous, in Gaza City on April 7, 2013. The hackers reportedly hit several Israeli websites including that of the premier's office, the defence ministry, the education ministry and the Central Bureau of Statistics, among others, but all appeare

اختراق المواقع الالكترونية الاسرائيلية جبهة ثانية ومستعرة

Civilians run from the site of an explosion in the southern suburbs of Beirut February 19, 2014. A large explosion near an Iranian cultural centre in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at least four people and wounded 19, security sources said. Security sources said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb and a motorcycle laden with explosives. REUTERS/Mahmoud Kheir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1937S

تفجيرا بئر حسن يبددان تفاؤل سكان الضاحية بعد اعتقال خلية إرهابية