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Who Attacked Iraq's Irbil Airport? Published February 17th, 2021 - 06:30 GMT Shattered glass is pictured on the floor of a shop following a rocket attack in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on February 15, 2021. A volley of rockets targeted the Kurdish regional capital in northern Iraq late today, authorities said, as security sources confirmed that at least one hit a military complex hosting US-led coalition troops. SAFIN HAMED / AFP Highlights Fingers pointed at Iran-backed Shiite militias as obscure group claims responsibility for the attack. With t...

Modern Diplomacy If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challenges is the fact that youth that often constitutes a majority of the population have lost or are los...

By Michael S. Miller and Eric S. Goldstein | January 21, 2021 Confronted with the challenges of our lifetime, we owe Chuck Schumer our gratitude. It was a year ago. The Jewish community had barely passed the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre, and suddenly we were again reeling after brazen and deadly anti-Semitic attacks in Poway, California; Monsey; and Jersey City. Further inflaming fear and sowing hate were a series of violent anti-Semitic attacks against Orthodox Jews across the New York region. Against this backdrop, on Dec. 30, 2019, U.S....

by Andrew Welsh, David Pollock, Rob Adams December 22 2020, 10.00am © Shutterstock / Ollyy From a mondegreen in a record shop to a panto reviewer’s Christmas and working in a home for wounded ex-service personnel, at the end of a difficult year, Andrew Welsh, Rob Adams and David Pollock look back on a working during Christmases past. THE PANTO REVIEWER’S CHRISTMAS by DAVID POLLOCK As someone who’s lucky enough to review theatrical Christmas shows across Scotland throughout the month of December, it’s fair to say the point of reviewing panto sometimes escapes me, at least at fi...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 16th, 2020  The Abraham Accords, the term given to the series of agreements reached last summer allowing normal relations between Israel and several of her Arab-Muslim neighbors, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and now Morocco, were greeted with optimism and approval by the Trump administration. “Everybody who joined the Abraham Accords will see the benefits for their own people,” declared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who said he was “highly confident that many, many more nations will ulti...