Families torn apart by the Korean War six decades ago are to reunite briefly near the heavily fortified border of North and South Korea next month under a deal reached between the two sides on Tuesday, according to a statement from the South. The agreement to hold reunions, which would[…]
In the charred concrete remains of the home in Duma where the Dawabsheh family used to live, a group of schoolgirls wrote messages on the wall. “I love you, my teacher,” wrote one girl. Another simply wrote the name “Reham” inside of a heart. Reham Dawabsheh, a 27-year-old teacher, died[…]
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has vowed to “wipe out” Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters from their mountain strongholds after 16 soldiers were killed in a rebel attack. “These terrorists must be wiped out from the mountains; whatever happens they must be wiped out,” he said in televised comments in[…]
Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border. Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend[…]
France’s President Francois Hollande has announced his country will take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years, while it is understood Germany will take 31,000 additional people under a European plan which is strongly opposed by Hungary. The figure revealed by the French leader on Monday represents France’s share of[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have captured the last major oilfield under Syrian government control during deadly clashes over a vast central desert zone, a monitoring group said. The Jazal field was now shut down and clashes were ongoing east of Homs, with casualties reported[…]
Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat”, the UN said Monday. A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also highlighted the difficulty Palestinians face in[…]
Thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral of Riham Dawabsha, 27, who died overnight Sunday after succumbing to wounds she sustained more than a month ago in an arson attack on July 31 that killed her husband and 18-month-old son. The funeral march set off from the entrance of Duma[…]
A standoff at a train station between refugees and Hungarian riot police continues for a second day as hundreds refuse to go to a refugee centre. Mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees on Friday remain on and around a train in the town of Bicske which is located 30km west of[…]
Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the country’s state news agency WAM. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other mostly Arab states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled[…]
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