Issues & Events
  • Four motivations pushing India closer to Afghanistan

    Four motivations pushing India closer to Afghanistan

    Sep 14, 2016 05:02

    The South Asian region is going through some crucial changes in accordance with the issues challenging regional issues. Stay with us for an analysis that appeared in the daily al-Waqt titled “Four Motivations Pushing India Closer to Afghanistan.”

  • The high cost of American hubris (1)

    The high cost of American hubris (1)

    Sep 13, 2016 08:28

    Natylie Baldwin explains that Americans have paid a very high price for the Establishment’s imperial ambitions, a price passing a breaking point in blood and money, a problem that must be addressed with realism and humility.

  • Yemen: ‘killers’ can give no peace

    Yemen: ‘killers’ can give no peace

    Sep 13, 2016 04:59

    In a supposedly ‘landmark’ development, the U.S Secretary of State John Kerry and his Saudi counterpart announced, in the last week of August, the new plan, having a “fair and sensible approach” about restarting negotiations in Yemen—a country facing worst humanitarian crisis due to the indiscriminate bombing by the so-called Saudi-led coalition forces, using U.S. sold bombs and aircrafts.

  • Blood-stained politics: Chaos in and out of Syria

    Blood-stained politics: Chaos in and out of Syria

    Sep 12, 2016 03:54

    It’s been reported that in 2014 a total of 600 thousand refugees applied for asylum in the EU, which constitutes a total of 0.1% of the European population. In 2015, those petitions were signed by a total of 1.294 million people, which means that the number of those seeking refugee has doubled in just a year, while the number of unprocessed applications for asylum in Germany alone exceeded half a million forms, as noted by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

  • Congratulation for Eid al-Adha & Condolences for Mena Martyrs

    Congratulation for Eid al-Adha & Condolences for Mena Martyrs

    Sep 12, 2016 03:32

    Salaam and along with our heartiest congratulations to you all on the auspicious day of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, are our heartfelt condolences on last year’s unwarranted stampede at Mena that was triggered by the Saudi regime and resulted in the death of some 7,000 Hajj pilgrims from various countries, including 500 Iranians.

  • Who will answer for Yemen’s suffering?

    Who will answer for Yemen’s suffering?

    Sep 11, 2016 06:42

    For months Saudi Arabia has been attempting to shell and bomb Yemen back to the Stone Age over the course of its illegal military aggression against the Yemeni population.

  • Significance of the Day of Arafah

    Significance of the Day of Arafah

    Sep 11, 2016 06:40

    In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate Salaam and welcome to our special programme for the Day of Arafah, the 9th of Zil-Hijjah on the eve of the climax to the Hajj pilgrimage.

  • Refugee numbers decline as deaths rise in the Mediterranean        

    Refugee numbers decline as deaths rise in the Mediterranean        

    Sep 10, 2016 04:57

    More than 9,500 refugees were rescued earlier from the seas off the west coast of Libya within just 48 hours. The number of refugees who have arrived in Italy via the central Mediterranean route from Libya rose as a result to more than 112,000. The dramatic rescue operations retrieved at least two dead bodies from the water.

  • Mena Tragedy (8)

    Mena Tragedy (8)

    Sep 10, 2016 04:41

    Welcome to the 8th and last part of our series on last year’s tragedy at Mena in holy Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage that led to the martyrdom of over 2,000 pilgrims to the symbolic house of God, the holy Ka’ba, including some 500 Iranians, because of the criminal negligence of law and order by the Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia, which this year has violated the tenets of Islam by barring pilgrims from Iran from performing the religious obligation of Hajj.