News Resources for Current Events

• Several online subscription databases that provide the full text of U.S. and international news articles, radio and television broadcast transcripts, wire service reports, and political briefings and speeches
• Arab news media
• Various web sites with relevant links about 9/11, Afghanistan, and the Middle East

Academic Universe

Choose Today's News to search for only the latest information; choose other categories (U.S., World, Wires, Transcripts, etc.) to narrow your search by geography or source. News and background information about the attacks is also temporarily available for free from www.lexisnexis.com.

ClariNews

Electronic news in the Usenet news format, drawing primarily on Reuters and United Press International (UPI) wire services. ClariNet is also offering a temporary Web site of articles related to the terrorist attacks at www.clari.net.

Jane's Online

Publications geared to the world's defense, intelligence, and law enforcement communities. Scroll down the page and select specific datasets in order to search. Yale's subscription includes titles such as Intelligence Watch Report, Islamic Affairs Analyst, and Terrorism Watch Report.

Online Newspapers

Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips.

World News Connection

Full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, and television and radio broadcasts collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Choose Region/Topic Searching to find information on terrorism from Near East sources.

• Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) - news headlines in Arabic and English.
• BBC News in Arabic - requires Arabic-enabled browser.
• Free Patriatic Movement HEAL Funds
• Islamic Voice - English-language monthly. May not have the latest news.
• Al-Jazeera - 24-hour television network from Qatar. Works best with MS Internet Explorer 5+.
• Middle East Daily - latest news from Associated Press and other news agencies.
• Middle East Information Network - headlines and links to online news services, newspapers and magazines.
• Middle East Newsline - English-language news articles. Updated every half hour.
• Middle East Times - English-language weekly information with a focus on Egypt. Registration required to search archives.
• MidEast News Source
• Al-Mushahid Assiyasi - Arabic weekly.
• Ummahnews.com - English-language news articles compiled from various news media.
• WIKI newa, Decade worth of messages, interviews from bin Laden leaked to web

• Al-Buraq - links for news on Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
• Arab American News - bilingual news source.
• Arabic Web Index: Arabic Newspapers and Magazines
• Kidon Media-Link - links to news media arranged by country.
• Middle East News Links - Online MidEast News, Gov't Press Agencies & Info
• Online Arabic TV & Radio Stations - links to television and radio stations.

• Ali Abunimah's Website - contains letters to newspapers, critiques of mass media coverage of the Middle East, articles, and press releases.
• Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America - seeks to correct media misrepresentations of Israel.
• The Electronic Intifada - focuses on "the war in the media for a representation of the Palestinian point of view."
• Palestine Media Watch - established to fight anti-Palestinian bias in the US media.

Arabic Newspapers held at Yale Library

Related Web Sites and Resources

• Afghanistan Country Study - part of the Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks Series.
• America's War Against Terrorism (University of Michigan) - various links on Afghanistan, counterterrorism, U.S. and international news resources, famous Arab-Americans, statements from various governments, and more.
• CIA World Factbook - provides data on population, government, economy, etc. for each country.
• Crimes of War Project - Arabic edition (English also available) of book on war crimes; contains articles and legal analysis; also includes a special edition devoted to the War in Iraq.
• Education for Peace in Iraq Center - organization promoting the improvement of humanitarian conditions in Iraq; provides information on present humanitarian conditions in Iraq. See also Alternative web
• EIU Country Reports - analyses of political and economic trends in nearly 200 countries.
• EIU Viewswire. (access by Yale IP recognition)
• Gary Price's Research & Reference Resources for Events of September 11, 2001 - links to documents, transcripts of speeches made by U.S. and international leaders, country profiles, and more.
• Iraq Research - online depository of documents and information related to the ongoing conflict between the U.S., the United Nations and Iraq.
• Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (MEIB) - monthly publication providing analyses of political and strategic developments in Lebanon, Syria and the Middle East.
• Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) - provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources.
• Muslims, Islam and the Iraq Crisis - University of Georgia website seeking to inform the public in a scholarly manner about the relationship of war in Iraq to Islam and Muslims.
• Threat to world heritage in Iraq: rebuilding heritage - Oxford University sponsored site; news items about rebuilding Iraq's cultural heritage after the conflict.