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Special Reports

US, Israeli, Saudi involvement in Syrian uprising

Tahir Mustafa

Jumada' al-Ula' 27, 14322011-05-01

Dr. Haytham Mannaa a prominent Syrian opposition activist confirmed that the foreign hand was involved in the events in Syria from the very early start of demonstrations.

Daily News Analysis

US CIA operative who murdered two Pakistanis to be set free

Crescent International

Rabi' al-Awwal 05, 14322011-02-08

Raymond Davis, the CIA agent operating as a "security consultant" at the US Consulate in Lahore, will be set free, Crescent International has learned. Davis shot and killed two people riding a motorbike in Lahore on January 26 whom he accused of trying to rob him.

News & Analysis

US, west facilitate break-up of Sudan

Mohamed Ousman

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

Barring some unforeseen problems, South Sudan will hold its referendum on January 9, 2011 and almost certainly secede from the North. The largest country in Africa would have been dealt a terrible blow whose consequences will reverberate for decades.

Editorials

The crude language of US diplomats

Editor

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

American officials are scurrying to various capitals to advise “friendly” governments that the undiplomatic, indeed nasty language used by their diplomats and officials about other leaders should not be taken too seriously.

Special Reports

As America crumbles, Islam offers hope, but immigrant Muslims are absent

Jamshed Abbas

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

The fact that America is in decline is indisputable. With a crumbling physical infrastructure, a growing gap between the rich and poor, a shrinking middle class, rapidly rising numbers of poor and unemployed, and an economy beholden to China, even American pundits admit the once proud superpower is sliding into rapid decline.

Editorials

Afghanistan: nine years after US invasion

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 18, 14312010-10-01

It was exactly nine years ago that US-led western forces invaded and occupied Afghanistan. The ostensible reason was to avenge the attacks of 9/11.

News & Analysis

US clutching at straws in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Nine years and tens of thousands of deaths later, it is the Americans that are begging the Taliban for talks

News & Analysis

Aafia Siddiqui’s sentence exposes gross US injustice

Tahir Mahmoud

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the frail neuroscientist kidnapped in Pakistan and tortured and brutalized for many years in Kabul’s notorious Bagram prison, was sentenced to 86 years by a US court in New York on September 23.

Special Reports

America: no stranger to genocidal war crimes

Afeef Khan

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

“To fight and kill is worth three months without sex. Maybe it sounds idiotic but it is better than sex… When you are on the field it is you or the enemy. And when you see the ‘red mist’ [blood spurt from the sniper victim]… it is indescribable.

Special Reports

Understanding emerging political divisions between Europe and the US

Zainab Cheema

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

In President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad’s recent visit to the United Nations in late September, he easily became the most-watched head of state. In his various speeches, he took the UN and US to task for presiding over the wars on Afghanistan

News & Analysis

US announcement of direct talks already a success for Israel and bodes ill for Palestinians

Iqbal Siddiqui

Ramadan 14, 14362010-09-01

The announcement by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on August 20 that the US is to host direct talks between Palestinian president Mahmood Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu has singularly failed to raise hopes of progress toward any level of justice for the suffering people of Palestine.

Main Stories

Neocons beat drums of war against Islamic Iran

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

The drums of war are once again getting louder in Washington. Led by the Zionist cabal and its neocon allies, American warmongers are itching for another war, this time against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Not satisfied with the blood-letting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

News & Analysis

Kabul Conference confirms US defeat in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

This was evident during the one-day conference when officials from 70 countries converged on Kabul to talk about Afghanistan’s future amid growing concern for intensified violence and the growing strength of the resistance.

Special Reports

US intrusion in Iran-China relations

Tahir Mahmoud

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

The answer to the above is not as complicated as many think. The key factor is to be able to see beyond the modern myth which projects China as the next superpower of the world

Background

The Taliban Movement

Fahad Ansari

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-06-01

One of the common misconceptions about the Taliban is that they were only formed as a movement in 1994...

Special Reports

American Zionism and the crisis of identity

Zainab Cheema

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

There is a complex balance of factors on each side of this geostrategic equation. The pressures building up in the Muslim world against US foreign policy are self-evident​..

News & Analysis

Seeking a solution to the Karabakh conflict in the Sirah

Maksud Djavadov

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

A solution based on the principles of the Prophet’s (r) Sunnah and Sirah would allow Armenians in Karabakh to acquire true independence. The “independence” they have today has turned Karabakh Armenians into a political instrument of Russia and the US...

Main Stories

Banking on a jirga and a prayer in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

The Americans are caught, literally, between and a rock and a hard place in Afghanistan. The mountainous country has one of the toughest people on earth that have never allowed foreigners to dominate them.

Main Stories

NGOs: the West’s soft instrument for hegemonic policies

Tahir Mahmoud

Jumada' al-Ula' 16, 14312010-05-01

The so-called NGOs that are financed by the US government are an important part of US policy to advance its hegemonic goals. It is likely that during the presidency of Barack Obama the NGO sector may be used even more frequently as a tool of US foreign policy.

Background

The Imam’s life and legacy

Editor

Jumada' al-Ula' 16, 14312010-05-01

June 3rd marks the 21st anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s passing into heavenly company. Amid his many achievements was the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, establishing the first Islamic state in modern times...

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