November 10th, 20170DEARBORN — It was the city's contentious mayoral race that drove most voters to the polls.
Many voters told The AANews reporters they hoped for a change of course in the city government, as things have changed since Mayor O'Reilly was elected a decade ago.
But voters re-elected O'Reilly with 10,999 votes (57 percent) in the Nov....
September 22nd, 20170DEARBORN — This year, Friday, September 22, marks the beginning of Ashura, the 10-day commemoration of Imam Hussein's (the Prophet Muhammad's grandson) martyrdom and his family and follower's sacrifice— known as a historical tragedy mostly observed by Shi'a Muslims.
Every year there's an increase in social, political and economic...
September 13th, 20170BEIRUT/MOSCOW — The Lebanese group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from much of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago.
The comments from two Syrian government allies mark the most confident assessments yet of...
August 4th, 20170Neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European "concern about the situation" or cliché Arab declarations made one iota of difference. United Nations officials warned of the grim scenarios of escalation,...
July 28th, 20170BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday that the group was close to defeating Nusra Front militants in the battle along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
"We are in the face of a very big military victory," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech. The militants have "effectively lost" most of the land they...
July 21st, 20170SOUTHFIELD — The liberation of Mosul from ISIS was a formidable victory for Iraq. But for Iraqi Americans, it was an exhilarating and unifying experience during a time of great scrutiny.
The extremist group had left a trail of devastation wherever they set camp and strained relations between Western and Arab World...
