Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hasn’t wasted any time implementing his vision for Saudi Arabia’s future. Since leapfrogging other senior royals on the line of succession to the throne, the prince has granted women the right to drive and curbed the power of the religious police. Music plays in restaurants, and many women are swapping their black abayas for colorful… Read more »
Bahrain has charged the leader of the country’s outlawed main opposition party with “spying” and suggested the 2011 Arab Spring protests that gripped the country were instigated by a “foreign country”. Bahrain’s public prosecutor charged Ali Salman, secretary-general of the al-Wefaq party, and Hassan Sultan, a former member of parliament, of colluding with Qatar to carry out “hostile acts” in… Read more »
On Sunday, a group stormed a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia after setting off a suicide car bomb at the entrance. The group of five, entered the building dressed as military officers and began shooting. Of the 23 dead, there was a mother and her three children. The thought of that disgusts me. How can someone just go into a building… Read more »
Security forces in Mogadishu have ended a night-long siege at a hotel by five extremist attackers that left 23 people dead and more than 30 injured.
Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums for the first time from next year, authorities said Sunday, in a landmark move opening up three previously male-only venues to families.
Children flee after kindergarten shelled in Syria – video View more sharing options Shares 1,105 Kareem Shaheen Monday 30 October 2017 12.11 EDTLast modified on Monday 30 October 2017 12.49 EDT Dozens of Syrian children were forced to flee a kindergarten on Sunday after it was allegedly bombed by government forces, highlighting the suffering of civilians in areas besieged by forces loyal to President Bashar… Read more »
Syrian government forces have expelled the last Islamic State group fighters from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor in a two-month-long campaign backed by Russian air power, according to a monitoring group.
A series of attacks targeting Christians and forced churches to close. This caused the Christian population to call to authorities for help. Authorities sealed off two churches in the southern province, citing harassment and attacks by extremists. A third close was due to fear of attack. It said, “clashes broke out Friday when ultraconservative Muslims tried to attack one of the… Read more »
Egypt has been one of the worst places for Christian persecution in recent months. A series of attacks targeting Christians and forced closure of churches have caused Egypt’s Christian population to call on authorities for help. The Minya Coptic Orthodox Diocese said authorities sealed off two churches in the southern province, citing harassment and attacks by extremists. A third was… Read more »
TEL AVIV, Israel — In a dusty detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, Tomas Yomani, an asylum seeker from Eritrea in East Africa, has been biding his time for nine months while under the watch of Israeli guards. Yomani, 30, can’t work because the nearest city is hours away. And if he misses roll call taken three times a day, he could be deported to… Read more »