Archives for November, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (3rd L) stands with (L-R) Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini after their meeting regarding a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, at the foreign ministry in Paris, July 26, 2014. The foreign ministers on Saturday called for an extension of th

نقاشات بين الاتحاد الأوروبي والولايات المتحدة الأميركية حول تجديد محادثات الشرق الأوسط

الاتحاد الأوروبي والولايات المتحدة الأميركية يتناقشان في خيارات إنعاش عملية السلام : تجديد المحادثات على أساس التفاهمات الأخيرة أو عقد مؤتمر دولي أو بيان أميركي أحادي حول اتفاقية إطارية.

Protesters rally in support of Al Jazeera journalists Abdullah al-Shami and Mohammed Sultan, who were detained by Egyptian authorities, in front of the Press Syndicate in Cairo, June 1, 2014. According to Al Jazeera's website, the two journalists have been in detention since August last year for providing information to the Muslim Brotherhood. The government has declared the Brotherhood a "terrorist group". The Brotherhood says it is a peaceful organisation. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLIT

مخاوف في مصر من "تأميم الإعلام"

Lebanon's Economy and Trade Minister Alain Hakim speaks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut October 24, 2014. Lebanon's economy will grow by no more than 2 or 2.5 percent next year if it does not resolve its political problems as it struggles to cope with the fallout from the war in neighbouring Syria, Hakim said. Picture taken October 24. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS CONFLICT) - RTR4BKBT

البيئة الحاضنة للأعمال

The remains of the Sheikh Zewaid shrine is seen after it was blown up by Islamist extremists following the revolution, at a graveyard in Sheikh Zewaid city, in north Sinai, March 7, 2012. Islamist extremists who believe in the strict application of Islam blew up the Sheikh Zewaid tomb, a landmark shrine for one of the early Muslims to arrive in Egypt, after local Sufis who believe in the holiness of the Sheikh used to practice their rituals beside it. To match Insight EGYPT-SINAI Picture taken March 7,

هل يكون الصوفيّون بديلاً معتدلاً للإخوان والسلفيّين في البرلمان؟

Hamas militants march during a rally in memory of people who were killed during a seven-week Israeli offensive, in Gaza City September 26, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants, mediated by Egypt, took effect on August 26 after the seven-week conflict. It called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt, and a widening of the territory's fishing zone in the Mediterranean. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - T

سلوك "حماس" إزاء اقتراب تنظيم الدولة من حدود غزّة

Palestinian protesters sit atop a section of Israel's controversial barrier that separates the West Bank town of Abu Dis from Jerusalem November 17, 2014. A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle on Monday, an incident Israeli police described as a suicide but which the driver's family said they believed was an attack. Israeli police said the evidence suggested al-Ramouni had committed suicide, but rumors quickly spread in the Palestinian media that he had been killed by Jewish assailant

هل يمكن أن تمهّد سياسات إسرائيل الطريق لانتفاضة؟

إنّ تهميش إسرائيل المنهجيّ للسكّان الفلسطينيّين في القدس، وفصلها إيّاهم عن السلطة الفلسطينيّة يمهّدان الطريق لانتفاضة جديدة.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is surrounded by security while commuting to meetings on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, September 25, 2014. Rouhani blamed the rise of violent extremism on "certain states" and on unidentified "intelligence agencies" and said it was up to the region to find a solution to the problem. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR47PL1

روحاني يتخبط لإيجاد حلفاء في البرلمان

علاقة الرئيس حسن روحاني ببرلمانه المحافظ كثيرة الخلافات، وتسير خطوات تشكيل فصيل معتدل ببطء.

Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards force, General Mohammad Ali Jaafari speaks at a University during Friday prayers in Tehran November 23, 2007. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN) - RTX3YZH

قائد الحرس الثوري الايراني: لا تراجع عن "القيم الثورية" في الاتفاق النووي

قائد الحرس الثوري الايراني يصرّح أنّ الاتفاق بشأن البرانامج النووي لا يعني التراجع عن القيم الاسلامية والثورية الايرانية.

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) walks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the prime minister's office in Ankara September 12, 2014. Kerry met Turkish leaders on Friday to try to win support for U.S.-led military action against Islamic State, but Ankara's reluctance to play a frontline role showed the difficulty of building a coalition for a regional war. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/Pool (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR460SV

داود أوغلو والتفكير بالتمنّي

الكلام الذي أدلى به رئيس الوزراء التركي أحمد داود أوغلو بأن الرئيس الأميركي باراك أوباما بدأ يلاقي أنقرة في موقفها من سوريا ليس مدعوماً بتصريحات صادرة عن واشنطن.

People check the scene where a car bomb exploded in near the port town of El-Arish in Egypt's Sinai peninsula July 24, 2013. A car bomb exploded near a police base and two soldiers were killed in separate, multiple attacks in Egypt's lawless Sinai peninsula, which has seen a spike in violence since the July 3 army ouster of the country's Islamist president. Four militants died when the car, rigged with gas canisters and carrying explosive belts, detonated in a desert area near the port town of El-Arish on W

مبايعة الدولة الاسلامية في سيناء يزيد المخاطر على مصر

Palestinian Hamas-hired civil servants wait to receive payment outside a post office in Gaza City October 29, 2014. Some 24,000 civil servants hired by the Islamist group Hamas, many of whom have not received a full salary in almost a year, finally got some pay on Wednesday from the new Palestinian unity government based in the West Bank. The funds were supplied by the gas-rich kingdom of Qatar, which is an ally of Hamas. But the fact the cash was delivered by the West Bank administration gave a boost to ho

أزمة رواتب الموظّفين تهدّد الأمن في غزّة

Egyptian policemen inspect the site where the militants fired mortar in Egypt's northern Sinai of el-Arish on late July 13, 2014, at a military base, killing a soldier and seven civilians, included 23 personas injured. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

مبايعة "أنصار بيت المقدس" تنظيم "داعش" وتداعياتها على الأمن القوميّ المصريّ

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a rare public appearance at an Ashoura ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs November 3, 2014. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR4COLH

مؤشّرات داخليّة وخارجيّة لحلّ لبنانيّ قريب... أو ممكن

An Egyptian soldier keeps watch at the closed Rafah border crossing, between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt November 6, 2014. At Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, families are emptying their homes - lugging mattresses and furniture onto waiting vans as soldiers look on from armoured cars. In nine villages along the frontier, 680 houses - homes to 1,165 families - are being razed to seal off smugglers' tunnels and try to crush a militant insurgency in northern Sinai that has intensified since the army overt

آلاف من العالقين في مصر وخارجها بعد إغلاق معبر رفح

United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) greets chairwoman Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) (R) before testifying at the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 12, 2014.
REUTERS/Gary Cameron (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR3GRSC

الكونغرس يفكّر في تخفيف القيود على المساعدة العسكرية لمصر

يناقش المشرّعون إمكانيّة إعطاء حكومة أوباما سلطة تجنّب العوائق القانونية أمام رزمة المساعدات السنويّة البالغة قيمتها 1.3 مليار دولار.

Iraqi security forces pull down a flag belonging to Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a patrol in the town of Dalli Abbas in Diyala province, June 30, 2014. The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to the "caliphate" it has declared on captured Syrian and Iraqi soil. Picture taken June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) -

تنظيم "الدولة الإسلاميّة" لا ينتهي بموت الخليفة

ان دولة الخلافة رغم انها ما زالت تفتقد المقومات الرئيسية لإقامة دولة مستقرة معترف بها اقليميا ودوليا، ولكنها ستبقى فاعلة لمدة طويلة في المنطقة وستتكثر في مناطق وتندحر في مناطق اخرى، وفي نفس الوقت ان المنطقة مستعدة لظهور مثيلات لها.