Habib Siddiqui

To read Ramzy Barroud's Story Behind the Jerusalem Attack: How Trump and Netanyahu Pushed Palestinians to A Corner  click here .

Kashmir: Indian troops kill young tailor amid protests Residents say army fired indiscriminately at protesters, as police claim soldiers were being pelted with rocks. Behind the façade of democracy and secularism, India has been steadily transforming itself into a Hindu fascist state where the lives of minorities are becoming worse day by day. With the presence of nearly half a million soldiers, the Indian Occupied Kashmir has been turned into a war zone with security forces everywhere who don't mind killing wantonly anyone who is a Muslim. By default, all the Kashmiri Muslims are fair targets for shooting. Even a tailor is not safe from such criminality of the government of India that refuses to allow the people of Jammu and Kashmir to decide their fate - the UN mandated right to plebiscite - something that they were promised more than seventy years ago. More than 70,000 unarmed Kashmiris have been butchered by the Indian forces. But who is counting? Here is the latest re...

Remember Daghestan, remember Chechnya during the Stalin era when hundreds of thousands of Muslims were ethnically cleansed from their native homelands to be settled in Siberia and other faraway territories on false charges of being collaborators for the Germans during World War 2? It took several decades before the Soviet government, under a new leadership, confessed to their crime and allowed the victims, or more properly their children and grandchildren, to return home. When they returned they found their homes seized and occupied by Christian Ossetians. And it has never been the same for those descendants of Stalin's victims. They continue to make headlines in the global press, sometimes in the wrong side of prevalent history of our time. It is a sad story! We are seeing a repeat of the crime in Central African Republic. To find out more, read below or click here . -------- Muslims return to CAR to find their homes are gone Observers warn that if land and property are no...

Here are 3 news items about Yemen. Yemen Policy Is Creating More Terrorists  - argues Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker . The Saudi policy right from its inception has been criminal, and needs wholesale condemnation from the civilized world. Here is the link to read about latest Saudi crimes that killed 20 civilians in  South Yemen. Buoyed by American support in recent years, like Myanmar, they are not allowing UN Aid Flight to Yemen. What a crime against humanity! Now the  Yemenis are finding Somalia, long a killing field because of Western influence in the horn of Africa, aided by Kenya, to be safer than their own country. This in spite of the sad fact that Somalia is facing its worst famine since 1945.

More than 40,000 civilians were killed in the devastating battle to retake Mosul from Isis , according to intelligence reports revealed exclusively to The Independent – a death toll far higher than previous estimates. To read more, click here .

Israel’s Secret Arab Allies TEL AVIV — United States and Israeli officials seem convinced that a regional peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world may be in the offing. On his recent trip to the Middle East, President Trump said that a “new level of partnership is possible and will happen — one that will bring greater safety to this region, greater security to the United States and greater prosperity to the world.” The main stumbling block remains the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an emotive issue that still carries strategic weight in Arab capitals. Yet the president isn’t completely wrong. Across the Middle East these days, often away from the headlines, Israel finds itself deeply involved in Arab wars. The clearest manifestation of what is frequently called “the new Middle East” can be found in Syria. Mr. Trump himself infamously alluded to Israel’s strategic reach when he told visiting Russian diplomats about information obtained by covert Israeli intelligence opera...

As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia , Mohammed bin Nayef was unaccustomed to being told what to do. Then, one night in June, he was summoned to a palace in Mecca, held against his will and pressured for hours to give up his claim to the throne. By dawn, he had given in, and Saudi Arabia woke to the news that it had a new crown prince: the king’s 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman. The young prince’s supporters have lauded his elevation as the seamless empowerment of an ambitious leader. But since he was promoted on June 21 , indications have emerged that Mohammed bin Salman plotted the ouster and that the transition was rockier than has been publicly portrayed, according to current and former United States officials and associates of the royal family. Mohammed bin Nayef had been confined to his palace , United States officials and associates of senior royals have provided similar accounts of how the elder prince was pressured to step aside by the younger one To read t...