Israeli occupation authorities yesterday handed five Bedouin families demolition orders in the Jabal Al-Baba community, east of occupied Jerusalem. Representative of the community, Atallah Muzar’a, said Israeli civil administration crews and army troops stormed the area at noon yesterday and handed over demolition writs to civilians. According to Muzar’a, at[…]
The death toll from Saturday’s truck bomb blast in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, has surged to at least 276 people, according to the country’s information minister. Abdirahman Osman on Sunday said on Twitter that around 300 others were also wounded in the powerful explosion at a busy road junction, which flattened[…]
A mix of anger and anguish among the Iranian public has greeted US President Donald Trump’s decision to declare that Iran is not in compliance with the nuclear accord with world powers – a sharp contrast to the euphoria that followed when the deal was signed in 2015. Iran’s President[…]
Israeli officials presented mix reactions to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement on Thursday, with leaders both criticizing and welcoming the landmark agreement. Israeli media reported that following the announcement from the Hamas and Fatah movements that an agreement had been reached, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement saying that[…]
US President Donald Trump is expected to refuse to certify Iran’s compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, an agreement between world powers and Tehran aimed at limiting the latter’s nuclear programme to non-military purposes. The move comes despite thinly-veiled criticisms from US allies in Europe who have developed burgeoning[…]
The US and Israel announced on Thursday that the two countries would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee for “anti-Israel bias.” According to reports, the US made its announcement first, with the Trump administration officially notifying the organization that it would[…]
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked properties of Palestinians in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday as they made their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces. Locals told Ma’an that around dawn, Israeli settler threw rocks and chairs at Palestinian shopfronts inside[…]
Palestinian political parties Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Thursday, as part of an effort to end a decade-long rift. The announcement comes after representatives from Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) convened in Cairo on Tuesday to implement a unity agreement[…]
Myanmar security forces have carried out “well organised, coordinated and systematic” attacks aimed at preventing members of the Rohingya ethnic group from returning, the UN Human Rights office said in a report on Wednesday. The report, based on interviews with Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh in the past month, said[…]
An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of the chairwoman and two other members of the commission that organised the 25 September vote for Kurdish independence, a judicial official said. The court in Baghdad acted in response to a request from the National Security Council (NSC) headed by the prime[…]
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