Contents: Tempers flare as EU leaders debate the migrant crisis; Europe looks for ways to reduce the volume of migrants; China’s Xi Jinping congratulates himself on stopping stock market crash
Contents: Israel reopens its embassy in Cairo, Egypt after four years; Four more Arab countries join war in Yemen with ground troops
One month ahead of its scheduled start date, Israel began to build a new security security fence on its eastern border with Jordan on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced after a cabinet meeting.
As hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees languish in camps or risk their lives to reach Europe, questions are being asked about why wealthy Gulf states have accepted so few. By the end of August, more than four million Syrians
American Airlines’s decision to drop their Philadelphia to Tel Aviv, Israel, flight was not “strictly financial” as the airline claimed last week.
A Muslim immigrant from Jordan, 20-year-old Nader Saadeh, has been charged with terrorism-related accounts after traveling to his home country with the intention of fighting for the Islamic State (ISIS).
Israel has gifted Jordan with 16 military gunships to help them fend off attacks from the Islamic State terror group and other jihadi outfits. The Cobra helicopters “are for border security,” an unnamed U.S. official told Reuters.
The family of Chattanooga gunman Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez and their legal representation are pushing hard on the idea that he was not radical, a terrorist, or even particularly religious. The narrative they are pushing is that his deadly rampage was born of drug abuse and depression.
As the U.S. government and mainstream media rack their brains to figure out the motive behind last week’s shooting of four Marines and a Navy petty officer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a few more clues to this inscrutable mystery have come up.
While en route to Israel to assuage concerns about the recently-struck Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told reporters that the deal does not remove the military option as a potential strategy for the U.S. to remove Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Questions are being asked about whether Chattanooga killer Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez should have been under surveillance by counterterrorist authorities before he launched his deadly attacks, killing four Marines and a Navy petty officer before he was brought down in a gun battle with police. Were there “red flags” that should have tipped off investigators that Abdulazeez was a potential terrorist threat?
Contents: Behind the scenes in the Iran nuclear deal; The Arab world is disintegrating into war; Saudi Arabia conducts major anti-terrorism sweep against ISIS; Massive bomb attack in Iraq market kills over 130
Youssuf Saed Abdulazeez—the father of the gunman, who on Thursday killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee—is a Palestinian from the city of Nablus in the West Bank, and he was previously investigated by federal officials for connections to an unnamed terrorist organization, the New York Times reported.
Iraqi Brigadier General Saad Maan told the Associated Press the country closed its border with Jordan to fight the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group controls the land between the crossing point of Trebil and Baghdad.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban went public with his frustration over DeAndre Jordan freezing him out when Jordan reneged on a verbal agreement to join his team.
An Iraqi-Norwegian dual citizen, who attempted to orchestrate the most disastrous bombing plot in Jordan in over a decade, was set to be tried behind closed doors in a Jordanian court on Monday.
Jordan will imminently install a buffer zone against Syria, as the Hashemite Kingdom continues to deal with radical jihadis infiltrating its sovereign territory, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Contents: Greece’s chaos continues as banks are closed; Turkey considers invasion of Syria to prevent a Kurdish state; Jordan makes plans for Syria invasion to protect its northern border
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
What is the best way to counter extremism? For Iraqi news anchor Ahmed Albasheer, the answer is comedy. After an eight-plus year career in news correspondence, Albasheer decided to leave the news desk to combat corruption and fight Islamic terror through humor.
Prince Zeid Hussein (of the Hashemite dynasty), who currently serves as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Monday for the European Union (EU) to absorb one million refugees from the wars in the Middle East.
California is mired in the fourth year of the worst drought in state history.
Contents: ISIS stokes sectarian Sunni-Shia clashes across the Mideast and Asia; Iraq’s government changes name of military operation to recapture Ramadi; Sunni Arabs are being forced to choose between ISIS and Shias
Zainab Bangura recently told the Middle East Eye that this is just one of many sadistic sexual acts that she learned of during a recent visit to Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan to gather data on ISIS’ war on women.
A new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling reveals that professional football remains the most popular professional sport, with 56% of respondents calling themselves fans of the NFL. Baseball (46%), basketball (37%), and golf (23%) followed.
