Israeli forces round up 24 Palestinians in predawn raids across occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man during a predawn raid in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Mohammed Hossam Abdel Latif Habali, 22, was shot in the head and lower limbs with live ammunition early on Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. He was rushed… Read more »
PARIS (Reuters) – France on Friday called on Iran to immediately stop all activities linked to ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear weapons after Tehran said it could put two satellites into orbit in the coming weeks. “France recalls that the Iranian missile program (does) not conform with U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231,” Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll… Read more »
Tensions in the Middle East are intensifying on their own, what with everything happening in Sudan, the situation between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and so on. But if you ask me, the United States deciding to insert themselves into places where they may not belong only makes things worse, or vice versa, in the… Read more »
Describing the US as a ‘force for good’ in the Middle East, top US diplomat rallies allies against Iran, ISIL threats. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has launched a scathing broadside against Iran, laying out the Trump administration’s vision for the Middle East in a keynote speech at the American University in Cairo. Pompeo on Thursday called for an end to Middle… Read more »
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon – Tarima Ibrahim huddled together with her children to keep them warm as incessant rainfall, heavy winds and hail slapped their tarpaulin tent and lashed the refugee camp around it. “We are freezing,” she said. “The tent is not heating up because it is flooded with ice-cold water.” Lebanon was hit by Storm Norma on January 6, heavily impacting… Read more »
Anata, occupied West Bank – A newly-opened highway in the occupied West Bank has been hailed by Israelis but condemned by Palestinians, who are calling it “Apartheid Road”. It’s the first operational section of an eastern ring road around Jerusalem that could deny Palestinians access to parts of the West Bank and threaten a future Palestinian state. Route 4370 has a high wall in the middle, topped… Read more »
The cases of Saudi stand-up comedian Fahad al-Butairi and his wife, Loujain al-Hathloul, a women’s right-to-drive activist, who were arrested in 2018, has resurfaced following a Twitter thread detailing their disappearance In a series of tweets, American writer and television producer Kirk Rudell spoke about his friendship with the Saudi couple who tried to challenge the kingdom’s strict social rules…. Read more »
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi opened a massive cathedral (the Cathedral of Nativity of Christ) on Christmas Eve in Egypt’s new administrative capital just 28 miles east of Cairo. During the inauguration, security was at its peak since there had been a deadly bomb blast at the Al-Haq mosque near the Virgin Mary Church in the Nasr district of… Read more »
Currently, Saudi Arabia does not have a minimal legal age for marriage, but regulations are being put in place to help protect against these young children. The Shura council, approved regulations on Wednesday to prohibit marriage for girls under 15 and those under 18 will have to be approved by a court. Women in Saudi Arabia are living under a… Read more »
The people of Sudan are in crisis. Protesters are in the streets fighting against the current regime. President Omar al-Bashir has made it very clear he does not plan to step down without a fight. he has encouraged his military to fire and detain as many protestors as they can. Three protestors have been shot and killed in my father’s… Read more »