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What's new: more details of her life and voyage to death By Robert Weller, Haiffaa Ali escaped Iraq to join her daughter in Colorado, but the journey was heartbreaking. First, she had to spend five years in Syria, and truth...

As more proof that the religion of Islam discriminates against women, a Saudi court sentenced a female journalist for sixty lashes just for being associated with a Lebanese TV channel. The channel, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), had been under...

Chaos is the only term that can describe the events taking place in Jerusalem these past few days and it doesn’t look like the mayhem will subside anytime soon. Israeli police are in an all out battle with masked Palestinian...

For what appears to be the first time in history, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly announced the Islamic republic’s willingness to cooperate with the Western world. What initially started as a hostile confrontation has slowly transformed into cooperation according...

The goal absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new middle east (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east...

By Robert Weller It’s not likely that a lopsided U.S. House of Representatives vote repudiating his findings on violent acts committed in Gaza by Israel will send Justice Richard Goldstone running for cover. This life-time supporter of Israel, himself an...

12 Year old Fawziya Arnmodi Youssef, of Sanaa, Yemen was forced to marry a 24 year old man... After 3 days of extremely painful labor and severe bleeding, she and the baby died... "Early Marriage" is apparently a common practice...

TEHRAN, Iran - Are these possible barbaining chips for Iran? Shane Bauer, 27, Josh Fattal, 27, and Sarah Shourd, 31, are three American hikers who have been detained since July 31 on charges of illegally crossing the border from Iraqi...

There is little reporting of these types of attacks any more. US personnel are still in danger in Iraq even though there are far fewer casualties since they are no longer stationed in cities and do not patrol routinely. Excerpts...

Palestinian farmers are not allowed to water their fields by the Israelis occupying their land. One example of this is being reported on by Al Jazeera. The Israelis’ defense for cutting off the Palestinians but not the Israeli farmers is...