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Category: West Asia

Standing One’s Ground…

Iraq had won the AFC Asian Cup Football Tournament in 2007. The West Asian Nation was experiencing a Civil War at that time, with the US Army in its spree […]

Riham’s Childhood…

A five-year-old girl… her physical strength, one can readily assume… yet, she held her baby sister’s shirt in a tight grip as she dangled precariously from whatever was left of […]

Extravagance…

Perhaps, the most interesting rumour in History is that Emperor Nero had played his flute while the great fire was destroying Rome in AD 64. There is no proof that […]

Misguided Missiles…

Turkey, the nation straddling Eastern Europe and Western Asia, has irked the US by striking a deal with Russia for acquiring S-400 Missiles! The NATO member state’s decision has shocked […]

On Jingoism…

The US nearly retaliated in a likewise fashion, after Iran shot down a USD 240 million A RQ-4N Global Hawk drone in June. However, Washington DC called off the planned military […]

Survival?

Everyone loves to live… and we all know of Charles Darwin’s claim that there was a continual ‘struggle for existence‘ in Nature, in which only the fittest would survive! For […]

Myths, Murals & A Man…!

Members of an Indian Delegation have claimed that they recently found a mural of Lord Rama or Ram – a major deity of Hinduism and the hero of the Ramayana, […]

Crossing The Border…

The tragic snapshot of a father, lying dead with his daughter, sadly reminds the Global Community of the image of Alan Kurdi… Kurdi was a three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish […]