region want to throw out the westerners. and so this is what prompted the rise of saladin, to take back jerusalem from the christians who had taken it from the muslims. saladin was a kurd, an ethnic kurd, who was born in the city of tikrit. he s famous for his generosity. in fact, his administrators say, we ve got to hide money from him because if he knows he s got it, he s going to give it away. saladin wants to conquer jerusalem. but in order to conquer jerusalem, he s first got to unite all of the disparate arab armies into one. meaning he spent a lot of his career fighting against other muslims. he would say, ideally i don t want to fight you. you should come on my side. we need that combined strength
World
June 7, 2021
Israeli police on Sunday arrested a prominent activist campaigning against the threatened expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the Israeli-annexed east al-Quds neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Police took Mona el-Kurd, 23, away for questioning and left a summons for her twin brother, Muhammed, their father told AFP a day after police had also detained an Al Jazeera journalist covering a demonstration nearby.
The family’s lawyer, Nasser Odeh, said police charged Mona el-Kurd with acts that disturb peace and order and riotous acts . In footage widely shared on social media, she was shown handcuffed and taken by officers out of her family’s home in Sheikh Jarrah, whose struggle has crystalized Palestinian anger over Israel’s illegal settlement movement.
All parties which want to fight side-by-side for democracy must come together, says Selahattin Demirtas
Reuters
April 05, 2021
A supporter of Turkey s main pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) holds a mask of their jailed former leader and presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas during a rally in Ankara, Turkey, June 19, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
ISTANBUL:
Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression and moves to divide them, including a court case to ban his party.
Demirtas told Reuters that opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party (AKP) and his nationalist allies should agree shared democratic principles and form an alliance now rather than wait until elections scheduled for 2023.
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By Naif Ramadhan
Posted 2020-12-24 17:40 GMT
Batnaya, North Iraq Churches still lie in ruin six years after the Islamic State (ISIS) swept through the Nineveh Plains, with others slowly rebuilt by Christians returning to the remains of their villages.
The St Qaryaqous Chaldean Church in Batnaya, 20 kilometers north of Mosul, has not been rebuilt due to a lack of aid.
Najib Batrs grandfather built the church in 1944. At least 70 percent is destroyed. We can t rebuild it. It is still in ruins. We ask for someone to rebuild it, be it the international NGOs or the central government, he said.
infantry force this unruly mix of syrian fighters who are responsible for all sorts of atrocities and war crimes. reporter: u.s. officials said the militias included former isis and al qaeda members. and they acted like it. the fighters were proud of what they were doing and posted videos showing themselves pointing a single finger in the air, a symbol often used by isis, and chanting baqia, an isis rallying cry meaning the caliphate lives on. the militias carried out summary executions. a prominent kurdish politician was targeted, stabbed, beaten, shot in the head and back, and left dead on the roadside. she was 34 years old. back in the united states, president trump was painting a different picture of what was happening. this is a situation where everybody is happy.