Archives for August, 2022

Zaka volunteers, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish emergency response team, clean up blood stains after the attack

Suspected gunman arrested after Jerusalem bus shooting wounds 8

Agence France-Presse

Children stand on a boat lying on the dried-up bed of southern Iraq's receding Chibayish Marshes

Iraq's Garden of Eden now 'like a desert'

Agence France-Presse

Seven injured, two seriously, in attack on Jerusalem bus: police, medics

Agence France-Presse

Supporters of Iraq's pro-Iran Coordination Framework gather near tents set up on a bridge leading to the capital Baghdad's Green Zone

Fed-up Iraqis say feuding political rivals 'in another world'

Agence France-Presse

'Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie,' says the front-page headline in Vatan-e Emrooz newspaper, which like most of Iran's press hailed Friday's attack in the United States on the 'apostate' British author of 'The Satanic Verses'

In Iran, Rushdie attack backers speak out, rest keep mum

Agence France-Presse

Rushdie only began to emerge from his life on the run in the late 1990s after Iran in 1998 said it would not support his assassination

Activists accuse Iran of responsibility for Rushdie attack

Agence France-Presse

Iran's then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, pictured in Tehran on February 5, 1979, a decade before he issued a fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie

Iran conservative media hail Salman Rushdie attacker

Agence France-Presse

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On lightning vacations, Ultra-Orthodox pour onto segregated Israeli beaches

Israel's ultra-Orthodox have only three weeks of yeshiva break, and they take their brief summer vacation very seriously.

Hamas

Analysis

Did Hamas win Israel-Islamic Jihad war in Gaza?

Hamas, PIJ stir resistance in West Bank; Egypt steps up, again, as mediator.

Week in Review

By Week in Review

Salman Rushdie is seen by many in the West as a free speech hero

February 14, 1989: The fatwa against Salman Rushdie

Agence France-Presse

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Tracker: ships carry grain from Ukraine to Middle East

Ships have left Ukraine for Turkey, Iran and elsewhere since the agreement between Ukraine and Russia on safe passage through the Black Sea.

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Understanding Iraq's Coordination Framework

The Coordination Framework is an umbrella bloc of Iraqi Shiite parties united mostly by their opposition to the Sadrist movement.

Salman Rushdie is loaded onto a medical evacuation helicopter near the Chautauqua Institution after being stabbed in the neck while speaking on stage in New York state

Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder

Agence France-Presse

Supporters of Iraq's Coordination Framework rally outside Baghdad's high-security Green Zone

Rival sit-ins deepen Iraq political deadlock

Agence France-Presse

Russia's governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mikhail Ulyanov.

Restoring Iran deal may see trade-off between past, present knowledge

Sticking points to kickstarting the Iran nuclear deal include Iran’s "demand that the IAEA end its investigation of uranium particles found at three sites in 2019."

The Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on December 6, 2021

Hundreds linked to IS transferred from Syria to Iraq

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