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Those are Yemeni government soldiers and equipment (not much to begin with and collected over a long period of time and put together) and what exactly is your point? Houthi casualties are 100 times worse and documented as well as loses in battles, hence the significant reduction of land that...

Thank you for your post and answer. I would appreciate if you could somehow elaborate on all those historical events as I find it interesting. Similarly with the Pakistani angle of course. Kurds are a separate ethnic group although Kurds have been heavily influenced by Arabs (neighbors after...

G20 leaders to pump in $5 trln into global economy in fight against coronavirus Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits in the study of 10 Downing Street, on a video conference call to other G20 leaders during the coronavirus outbreak in London, Britain, on March 26, 2020. (Reuters)...

This development (over the years starting in 2012) has now emerged into an entire "saqr" family with many models, each superior/newer to the predecessor (naturally). It started (as of 2014) with Saqr 1, Saqr 2, Saqr 3, Saqr 4, later Saqr 1-A and other models. Trials and failures and all. The...

I shall quickly reply brother (as can be seen this thread is not very active nowadays). The status is unfortunately unknown in war torn countries such as Syria, Yemen and Libya other than there being reports of this virus appearing in Syria and Libya. Besieged Gaza, I have not heard information...

I am not a scholar but I think that this is an Islamic tradition that every temporary Custodian of the Holy Sites have practiced past and present. It is not something that I have noticed before/put emphasis on but I understand why it could be controversial. I suggest asking well-known Islamic...

@Philip the Arab Check out those amazing specs. Joint project between KAUST and the US (Silicon Valley based) UAVOS. Saqr 1-B, range of 2600 km, operational height of up to 16.500 feet, 500 hours of testing tasks during the day, night and all type of weather conditions conducted, total of 1000...

Well put. More people to people interaction (ordinary people) is needed and I think that this will occur more and more often. When the political/regime initiated power plays have ended and every party realizes that there is no real winner (the world of today is not the same as it was in...

Arabs and Turks (people) are not enemies and share a lot of common history, culture, ancestry (DNA), geography, religion etc. There are ancient Arab communities in Anatolia and Anatolia and its people have always had close historical, people to people ties to people of the Arab world (Arab Near...

All Arabs are considered White (along with all other Middle Eastern ethnic groups) which is technically a correct qualification (if White equals belonging to the Caucasian race) but nowadays Arabs in the US (from what I know) and other ethnic groups from the region, have been fighting for a...

"Wahhabism" is a branch of Hanbalism which emerged in modern-day Iraq (Ahmed ibn Hanbal). A minority of extremists are found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, India and all those mentioned states (everywhere in fact) yet most people are normal people not much...

It is not as simplistic as this. Pre-Islamic Iran was heavily influenced by civilizations and cultures from the Arab world, even the Semitic Aramaic language was the lingua franca (state language of Persia) and much of the population was indigenous to the Arab world. Prior to 500 BC...

It is normal given the historically close ties (cultural, religious, geographic, people to people) not much different from Muslims taking sides in conflict zones far away from their own backyards. For instance it would be fair to say that most Muslims have reservations about US imperialism...

Honestly speaking no Muslim nation post-WW2 had any ability to create their own independent policy and shape the region and at the same time combating the West (that was firmly ingrained in the Arab and Muslim world -remember when the WW2 ended there was not even a Pakistan yet - the second...

You are right and remember all this "conflict" was the creation of regimes in power. People just played along as they had no other choice. The Cold War also gave rise to a fusion between Hanbalism and MB when King Faisal welcomed exiled MB members from Egypt, Syria (mainly) and Iraq. Later those...

@Philosopher. What is your take on news like this and do you have any material (video) in Farsi of Saudi Arabian Shia pilgrims visiting Iran similar to the nature of the video that I posted in post 4? I am curious. Thanks. After this coronavirus pandemic and the likely huge global recession...

I don't see Turkey as a relevant player in the Arab world (in the past 10 years or in the future) so I won't comment on this part of your post as it is not related to Arabs nor the topic of this thread. My view of our relations with the neighborhood as Arabs (read my view) is that we should try...

You could claim so indeed however the current rift with MB-ruled and MB-sponsoring Qatar (with the aid of Erdogan controlled Turkey) has put a stop to this but I don't see that succeeding in the long-term. The tiny size and population of Qatar as well as its geography will ensure this. There are...

With all due respect you must be high on something or trolling heavily. Only 1/3 of the Arab world was ever a part of the thoroughly Arabized Ottoman entity either in name only or de facto. Prior to that most of the Arab world was united for centuries and various regions in the Arab world were...

Libyan clans and tribes (whether Arab or Arab-Berber mixes) mostly have cordial ties (they have all been intermarrying each other for centuries, some cases 1400 + years) regardless of the region of Libya. The problem is (as usual) that certain opportunistic with vested economic interests with...