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What after Soleimani?
Exactly as the US Defense Secretary Mark Esper had said last Thursday, “the game has changed”.Following the attack on an Iraqi base by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias in Iraq, where American troops were stationed, the US retaliated, and the American retaliatory raid resulted in the death of 25 of the terrorists.It was an operation that concluded with the American drone attack leading to the elimination of the senior Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani.Undoubtedly, the elimination of Soleimani has been carried out in line with the direct orders of US President Trump. It marks a qualitative change in the American administration’s policy and confirms the capability of American intelligence to infiltrate Iranian defenses and the Iranian-backed terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria,...
January 03, 2020

What after Soleimani?

Turkey sending troops to Libya
THERE seems little doubt that Turkey’s parliament, dominated as it is by supporters of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will rubber stamp his plan to send troops to fight in Libya alongside the militias of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Serraj. The GNA which controls the area around Tripoli, the capital in the West of the country is currently trying to fight off an assault by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Hafter, who draws his legitimacy from the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk in the East. This is the parliament that was elected in 2014 and then driven from Tripoli by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), most of whose candidates had been trounced at the polls.It remains a mystery that the United Nations and the international...
January 02, 2020

Turkey sending troops to Libya

Turkey sending troops to Libya
THERE seems little doubt that Turkey’s parliament, dominated as it is by supporters of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will rubber stamp his plan to send troops to fight in Libya alongside the militias of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Serraj. The GNA which controls the area around Tripoli, the capital in the West of the country is currently trying to fight off an assault by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Hafter, who draws his legitimacy from the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk in the East. This is the parliament that was elected in 2014 and then driven from Tripoli by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), most of whose candidates had been trounced at the polls.It remains a mystery that the United Nations and the international...
January 01, 2020

Turkey sending troops to Libya

Saudi Arabia: Development of the mind and land
Saudi Arabia is a developed country that provides humanitarian and financial assistance to other countries in the region and the world. Depending on its youth that make up 67 percent of the total population, the Kingdom focuses on education, globalization, transformation, digitalization and the development of the mind and land. Saudi Arabia is an example of tolerance and religious coexistence, where officials in embassies and consulates from all over the world live in absolute peace. Having met many of them personally, I found that they were eager to be assigned to a diplomatic post in the Kingdom.As a female witnessing tremendous change in a short period of time, it will be an honor to tell future generations about this period in the Kingdom’s history. Movies, books and documentaries...
January 01, 2020

Saudi Arabia: Development of the mind and land

India must resist policy of racial division
It has been five months since the government of India slammed Kashmir and more than eight million of its residents into a lockdown, isolated from most of the world and subject to the gauntlet of increased Indian forces sent to the region to suppress movement and resistance. The region’s population is predominantly Muslim.In other parts of India, the streets are on fire as Muslims, Hindus and people of other faiths have risen up against the discriminatory conditions of the recently imposed Citizenship Law that clearly spells danger for India’s Muslim residents despite denials by the ruling BJP party. For the record, many of India’s secular intellectuals have warned of the seeds of the notorious RSS scriptures that are based on communal division and racial hatred of minorities that...
December 31, 2019

India must resist policy of racial division

A conference and the question of credibility!
History teaches us that moral credibility is what legitimizes people as well as nations. You cannot, for example, be a lawyer for a case if you are accused of similar crimes. I thought of this while I followed news of the Islamic conference recently held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur attended by Iran, Turkey and Qatar.The conference was meant to support the issues of Muslims in Kashmir and Palestine as well as the Uighurs in China. There is no question that there are serious crimes committed against Muslims in these countries, but it is unfair for the team of lawyers to be Turkey, Iran and Qatar.Turkey is the country that annexed the Iskenderun Brigade area from Syria and now occupies by military force the area north of the Syrian Euphrates. It intervenes militarily in Libya to...
December 30, 2019

A conference and the question of credibility!

Kidnapping hope
IT must be hoped that 27 peace marchers who have been abducted in Afghanistan will be freed safely. The group disappeared after leaving Herat and passing into the neighboring Western province of Farah which also borders Iran. They had set off to protest the continuing violence as Taliban insurgents jostle with the internationally-recognized government of Ashraf Ghani in KabulWhat these individuals, from all walks of life and all ethnic backgrounds are seeking to do is demonstrate in a brave, non-violent manner, that there simply has to be an end to the internal strife. Those who say Afghans are naturally disputative, ill-educated and traditionally revert to violence are belittling a diverse people with a proud and noble past. Of course there are warlords and insurgents who have never known...
December 26, 2019

Kidnapping hope

2020: A rudderless and agenda-less world!
I love my soulmate Patricia, but she can be exasperating sometimes. She wants to camp in Tokyo waiting for the Olympics. She is desperate to get away from tempestuous leaders, deteriorating economies and an intolerant world. I told her, “I can muster money for just three days.” Since then, I have been in the doghouse.Meanwhile, all the star-performers on the global stage, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Xi Jinping, Shinzo Abe, Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi, etc., will spend sleepless nights in a turbulent 2020. Many of these world leaders have long innings ahead. Sadly, many of them are mercurial and manage by expediency. There is a vacuum of visionary leaders like Lincoln, Churchill, Kennedy, Gorbachev or Gandhi, who provided a rudder and an agenda. The world is now a scrambled egg,...
December 25, 2019

2020: A rudderless and agenda-less world!

Iraq’s rot
PARASITES thrive in rot and decay. The terrorists of Daesh (the so-called IS) are proving this all too clearly as Iraq blunders deeper into political failure and social cohesion continues to collapse.Ordinary Iraqis, from across the different communities, have had enough with the venality and sheer incompetence of the political elite who have come to dominate the country since the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Every politician wraps him or herself in the flag and insists he or she is acting in the best interests of the country. If that were really true why is it that in major cities, there is no reliable power supply; why is sewage still running through the streets of Basra imperiling water supplies and public health; why is it that so much basic infrastructure remains in ruins when...
December 25, 2019

Iraq’s rot

Iraq’s rot
PARASITES thrive in rot and decay. The terrorists of Daesh (the so-called IS) are proving this all too clearly as Iraq blunders deeper into political failure and social cohesion continues to collapse.Ordinary Iraqis, from across the different communities, have had enough with the venality and sheer incompetence of the political elite who have come to dominate the country since the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Every politician wraps him or herself in the flag and insists he or she is acting in the best interests of the country. If that were really true why is it that in major cities, there is no reliable power supply; why is sewage still running through the streets of Basra imperiling water supplies and public health; why is it that so much basic infrastructure remains in ruins when...
December 25, 2019

Iraq’s rot

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