Hundreds of Palestinians late Friday mourned in the funeral of 14-year-old Hadeel Wajih Awwad from the Qalandiya refugee camp whose body was held by Israeli authorities for nearly a month. Awwad was killed by Israeli forces and her 16-year-old cousin was shot and critically injured after they reportedly carried out a[…]
The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on Friday. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power,[…]
Down an unpaved road near the mosque of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Mustafa al-Louh stepped out of his home into the chilly night air. “There was no reason for them to bomb us,” he told Al Jazeera. “We never threatened the Israeli state in any way.” During[…]
The United Nations’ failure to respond to allegations that French peacekeepers sexually abused children in Central African Republic amounted to “gross institutional failure” and allowed assaults to continue, according to an independent panel’s damning report released on Thursday. The study, commissioned by the UN, found that children as young as[…]
Libya’s two rival factions have signed a UN-backed deal to form a unity government at a ceremony in Morocco. Chants of “Libya, Libya” erupted as representatives from both parliaments signed the accord on Thursday in Skhirat, just south of the Moroccan capital Rabat. The peace deal calls for a presidential[…]
The United States and Cuba have agreed to restore scheduled commercial airline service for the first time in more than five decades in a deal allowing 110 round-trip flights a day between the former Cold War foes. Announced a year to the day after the two countries embarked on a[…]
The number of people forcibly displaced worldwide is likely to have “far surpassed” a record 60 million this year, mainly driven by the Syrian war and other protracted conflicts, the United Nations said on Friday. The estimated figure includes 20.2 million refugees fleeing wars and persecution, the most since 1992,[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia did have personnel in eastern Ukraine who were carrying out certain military tasks but denied Moscow had deployed regular troops there. “We never said there were no people there who were carrying out certain tasks including in the military sphere,” Putin[…]
Palestinian lawmakers in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, have denounced a parliamentarian’s campaign to ban an influential Arab party from the legislative process. In a video posted on his on Facebook, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu (Israel is Our Home) party, called on Israelis to[…]
The United States has delivered a fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters ahead of an expected stiff battle with Islamic State as they push toward the Syrian town of, a key logistics hub for the group, U.S. officials tell Reuters. The munitions were shipped into Syria over land[…]
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