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[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is ready to hold snap parliamentary elections and allow a “healthy” opposition to share power. The Syrian president “is in agreement with” holding elections for parliament, as well as establishing contacts with the so-called healthy opposition and bringing them into[…]
A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and his two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while Hungary’s leader told Europeans they risk becoming a minority on their own continent. With desperation and anger deepening among people escaping conflict and poverty, around 300 migrants broke[…]
Canada on Thursday denied it had received an asylum request from the family of a Syrian toddler who has become a symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis after his little body washed up on a Turkish beach. Identified as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, the boy was among 12 migrants who died trying to[…]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defence of Hungary’s response to the surge in refugees trying to enter the country. “I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large[…]
A draft resolution on raising the Palestinian flag at the United Nations will likely be adopted next week in time for President Mahmoud Abbas’ visit to New York, the Palestinian envoy said on Thursday. The UN General Assembly will vote on 10 September on the measure that is almost certain[…]
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