ROME (TIP): As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media said on April 16, days after 400 were lost in another shipwreck.Four survivors told Italian […]
TRIPOLI/RABAT (TIP): Warplanes from Libya’s internationally recognised government on Thursday bombed the only functioning commercial airport in Tripoli on March 19, delaying the departure of a delegation from a rival parliament for UN peace talks, […]
TUNIS (TIP): The Islamic State group issued a statement on March 19 claiming responsibility for the deadly attack on Tunisia’s national museum that killed 23 people, mostly tourists. The statement described on March 18 attack […]
CAIRO (TIP): Militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State have seized the university in the central Libyan city of Sirte, residents said on February 19, days after a video showed them staging a convoy parade. Islamist […]
“The Taliban attacks within Afghanistan reached unprecedented levels in 2014. Moreover, while Washington proclaims that any process of “reconciliation” between the Taliban and the Afghan Government will be “Afghan led and Afghan driven,” the reality […]
It was a massacre of the innocents. Every report must admit this – because it’s true. But it is not the whole truth. The historical and all-too-real connections between the Pakistan army, the Inter-Services Intelligence […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York state’s banking regulator hit Standard Chartered Bank with a $300 million fine and restrictions on its dollar-clearing business on Tuesday for not detecting possible money laundering. The New York Department […]
BENGHAZI (TIP): At least nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in heavy clashes overnight in Benghazi as government forces tried to oust Islamist militants holed up in Libya’s eastern port city, medical […]
By S Nihal Singh America’s Receding Ability to Bring Peace “The major power in the region, the United States, is increasingly compromised by its total support of Israel, largely due to domestic factors, and its […]
Arab Spring protests not in vain After three years of turmoil and bloodshed in the Middle East and North Africa, where is the Arab Spring? Apart from the relatively tiny state of Tunisia, where it […]
TRIPOLI (TIP): Libya’s interior minister escaped unscathed from an assassination attempt in Tripoli on January 29, the LANA news agency reported. Seddik Abdelkarim, who is also deputy prime minister, was in his car when “unknown […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has sent a handful of military advisers to Somalia in recent months to help bolster an African Union force fighting Islamist militants there, officials said on January 10. The deployment […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House said it is pleased that Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan is again a free man after his abduction at gunpoint earlier on October 10. Spokesman Jay Carney said the US […]
TRIPOLI (TIP): Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appealed for calm Thursday, October 10 in his first public comments since he was freed after being abducted by militia gunmen for several hours, a CNN report said. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India‘s Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 28. During his visit to US, he will meet with President Obama in […]
“The author foresees tremendous tectonic changes in the wake of Arab Spring et al. He says, “There will be following major discernible evolutionary geo-political trends underlying the so-called Arab spring. The despotic regimes headed by […]
The West’s attempt to ride roughshod over the United Nations Security Council with a hastily drafted proposal to authorize the use of force in Syria sets the stage for its second military intervention in West […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US embassies that would normally be open this Sunday – including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo – will be closed that day because of unspecified security concerns, the US State Department […]
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