Days after President Trump declared the Islamic State’s caliphate had been eliminated in Syria, the prime minister of one of West Africa’s most turbulent nations urged the United States to shift attention to a rising extremist threat in the Sahel. Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga visited Washington this week to ask U.S. officials to bolster support for his country’s fight against… Read more »
After hearing about the Khashoggi constantly for almost all of October and November in international news I was somewhat shocked how quickly and quietly the whole incident.. disappeared. There was no conclusion to what happened. His body was never found and it seems like all those reports put out against the Saudi Government were never actually seen. So I find… Read more »
So, after reading about Palestine and Israel and real accounts from people in Israel it feels like an issue that people aren’t giving enough attention to. I don’t know an incredible amount of background between the Israel and Palestine conflict, but I do know it’s mainly about who lays claim to the land. Israel who claims the land due to… Read more »
A senior official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said Arab states made a “very wrong decision” in the past when they had decided to not have formal relations or contact with Israel. Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, told Emirati daily The National that relations between Arab states and Israel need to change in order… Read more »
After five years in prison, Alaa Abdel Fattah, a high-profile Egyptian blogger and rights activist, is due to be released from prison on Wednesday, his family said. His sister Mona Seif, a prominent human rights activist herself who founded the No to Military Rule movement, tweeted that the family was still waiting for the release process to begin. “We hope it goes smoothly… Read more »
Israeli forces shot and killed an 18-year-old Palestinian medic after the army raided a refugee camp in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Sajid Muzher was shot in the abdomen and later died on the operating table at the Beit Jala Hospital, Palestinian medical sources said. The sources added that the young man was killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire while… Read more »
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are set to mark the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Returnprotests, anticipating more of the same lethal violence that has characterised Israel‘s approach since the demonstrations began. Last month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) published a damning indictment of Israeli forces’ conduct in suppressing the protests. According to the COI, Israeli soldiers have been deliberately shooting civilians, killing… Read more »
Saudi Arabia‘s secretive hearings for 11 suspects accused in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi fall short of international standards and should be open to the public and trial observers, a United Nations human rights expert has said. Agnes Callamard who leads an international inquiry into the killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October, called on the kingdom to reveal the defendants’… Read more »
ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces announced Saturday, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist group in 2014.The coalition of Kurdish and Arab soldiers backed by US, British and French special forces said it defeated ISIS and fully liberated Baghouz in eastern Syria.”Syrian Democratic Forces declare total elimination of so-called… Read more »
The trial of 11 female Saudi activists resumed in Riyadh on Wednesday, in a case that has been criticized by rights groups and drawn international condemnation.Saudi Arabia has not yet made the charges public, but after the women’s last hearings on March 13, Human Rights Watch reported that the charges appeared “almost entirely related to their human rights activities.”Some of the women… Read more »