Archives for December, 2014

Members of al Qaeda's Nusra Front gesture as they drive in a convoy touring villages, which they said they have seized control of from Syrian rebel factions, in the southern countryside of Idlib, December 2, 2014. Picture taken December 2, 2014.
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4GJ0L

النّصرة تنتصر في ريف إدلب والنّظام يتخلّى عن حلمه في فتح طريق طويل بين حماه وحلب

A Syrian woman (C) stands with her daughter near the Bosphorus on August 30, 2014, at Eminonu, in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

ميناء طرطوس يغلق أبوابه في وجه الفارّين من أتون الحرب

Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, pray before a military parade marking the 27th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY RELIGION) - RTR4HY0R

لماذا لا تدين حماس الارهاب؟

A woman walks past graffiti depicting riot police near Tahrir Square in Cairo June 23, 2013. The "Rebel!" alliance is campaigning to force President Mohamed Mursi to resign. Mursi's opponents say they have gathered about 15 million signatures - more than the 13 million votes that elected Mursi a year ago - on a petition calling on him to step down. The Arabic text reads, "Freedom for all prisoners locked our brothers in prison" (R) and "Tamarod (meaning 'Rebel!" alliance'), beginning of the end". REUTERS/Am

حركة تمرّد: بين مطرقة العلامة التجاريّة وسندان القانون

A Palestinian man walks next to a truck loaded with goods after entering Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 28, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor has emerged. The Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement that took effect on Tuesday evening, called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, th

إجراءات ضريبيّة أحاديّة الجانب في غزّة تثقل كاهل المواطنين والتجّار

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Russian (L and R) and Iranian operators monitor the nuclear power plant unit in Bushehr, about 1,215 km (755 miles) south of Tehran, November 30, 2009. Russia plans to start up Iran's first nuclear power station in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New Year, two sources closely involved with the project told Reuters. Russia agreed in 1995 to build the 1,000 megawatt

انتقدت لجنة مؤتمر في إيران برنامجها النووي

انتقد أعضاء لجنة مؤتمر عقد في طهران علناً التكاليف العالية على البلاد نتيجة الملف النووي.

A picture taken on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City shows the entrance of the French Cultural Center that was slightly damaged by a bomb attack on December 12. On October 8, the centre's offices were set ablaze after the apparent explosion of two faulty fuel tanks. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

من الذي يفجّر المركز الثقافيّ الفرنسيّ في غزّة؟

Clerics speak on the campus of the Seminary in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran February 3, 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN) - RTXB72L

قم والنجف يطالبون بتحسين علاقات بلادهم مع السعودية

لقد بادر مراجع دين كبار في كلّ من قم والنجف بشكل متزامن بإرسال دعوات للقادة السياسيين في بلادهم بالتوجه نحو تحسين العلاقات مع السعودية من حيث أنه سوف يصبّ في مصلحة شعوب المنطقة بأكملها ويخفف من الصراع القائم ويوحد جبهة الكفاح ضدّ الإرهاب والتطرف الديني.

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Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a ceremony to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran's Azadi square February 11, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: ANNIVERSARY POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR2XN6M

حماس وإيران..التقارب جدي هذه المرة

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Damascus December 10, 2014 in this picture released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

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موسكو – دمشق: هل بدأ ضغط الحلفاء؟

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Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, attends a news conference in Tehran February 7, 2011. REUTERS/STRINGER (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTXXKFA

حرس الثورة الإسلامية يردّ على تعليقات روحاني

بعد تحذير روحاني من حصر السلطة، انتقد رئيس حرس الثورة الإسلامية تفسيرات الفتنة بين الرئيس ومؤسسته التي يعود إليها الفضل في المحافظة على المعارضة الإيرانية ضدّ الولايات المتحدة.

TO GO WITH STORY BY JOSEPH KRAUSS Muslim men sit at the entrance of a mosque, housing the tombs of the four companions of the Jewish prophet Ezekiel in the little town of Kifl, south of Baghdad, on April 29 2009. Muslims revere nearly all the central religious figures from Judaism and Christianity, including Ezekiel -- the prophet who followed the Judeans into the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC. Between 1948 and 1951 nearly all of Iraq's 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbr

العراقيون يستذكرون يهود بلادهم

Lebanese army soldiers patrol the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood after being deployed to tighten security, following clashes between Lebanese soldiers and Islamist gunmen, October 27, 2014. The Lebanese army took ground from Islamist gunmen in the northern city of Tripoli on Monday, security sources and a witness said, after weekend fighting in which 11 soldiers and eight civilians were killed. REUTERS/Stringer (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTR4BQ8R

الطائف... تطبيق وثغرات

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shows a picture of Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein as he is grabbed by an Israeli border policeman, during a meeting with the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah December 10, 2014. Abu Ein died on Wednesday shortly after the Israeli border policeman shoved and grabbed him by the throat during the protest in the West Bank, an incident Abbas described as barbaric. Abu Ein, 55, a minister without portfolio, was among scores of Palestinian and foreign a

السلطة الفلسطينيّة لم ترد على اغتيال الوزير أبو عين

A policeman lays a floral tribute with thousands of others near the cafe where hostages were held for over 16-hours, in central Sydney December 16, 2014. Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe early on Tuesday morning and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people including the attacker were killed. REUTERS/David Gray (AUSTRALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR4I5JB

إيران حذرت أستراليا من منفذ عملية احتجاز الرهائن في سيدني

كان منفذ عملية احتجاز الرهائن في استراليا مان هارون مؤنس مطلوباً من العدالة في إيران بتهمة الاحتيال.

Free Syrian Army fighters man a checkpoint to prevent kidnapping, activists said, in Kafranbel, Idlib province February 7, 2014. Picture taken February 7, 2014. REUTERS/Fadi Mashan (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTX18FIK

ألم الفقدان يوحّد الأمّهات السوريّات