They escaped fighting in the port city of Hodeidah, in the west of war-ravaged Yemen, only to find refuge in a graveyard hundreds of kilometres further south. Currently based in Aden, these 11 internally displaced families do not have enough money to pay for the most basic commodities, and are instead[…]
Iraq has rejected any Israeli participation in a naval force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, at the heart of tensions with Iran. Iraq “rejects any participation of forces of the Zionist entity in any military force to secure passage of ships in the Arabian Gulf”, Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali al-Hakim wrote on social[…]
Kabul, Afghanistan – Small pieces of meat hang in the front area of Zia Gul’s tiny mud house, drying in the scorching August sun. This is all that the 35-year-old mother of six, and a resident of Nasaji camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Kabul, can offer her family[…]
At least 47 people have been killed in two separate attacks in the southern port city of Aden. A missile attack on a military camp in Aden, the seat of Yemen‘s internationally recognised government, has killed at least 36 people, according to officials. The earlier attack, a suicide bombing, killed at least[…]
US-trained saboteurs are being sent from Al-Tanf to other parts of Syria to try to destabilize the situation, Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, said on Monday. A ‘major armed unit’ of Jaish Magawir al-Saura militants is being trained in the[…]
Moscow is urging its partners in the BRICS group of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to take part in work towards the post-war restoration of Syria, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. “It is crucially important to support the processes of Syria’s post-conflict restoration,” he told a[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that all standing agreements with the state of Israel will be suspended indefinitely, following the bulldozing of homes in the occupied West Bank. President Abbas announced the decision on Thursday afternoon, and said it would take effect by Friday. The move comes in response[…]
The four-year war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a UN peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, UN envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. The war between the Houthis and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting the Yemeni government has killed many tens of thousands of[…]
Hundreds of Israeli troops with bulldozers tore down homes in the Palestinian village of Sur Baherdespite local protests and international criticism. Residents of the village’s Wadi al-Hummus neighbourhood told local media on Monday that 16 residential buildings with about 100 apartments were being demolished. “Preparations started past midnight as hundreds of armed[…]
India is denying that its prime minister ever asked US President Donald Trump to mediate in the long-standing dispute over Kashmir, after Trump made a comment about it in a meeting with the Pakistani PM in Washington. “No such request has been made by PM Narendra Modi to [the] US[…]
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