Iran has been working on two satellites that have gone under a series of tests in order to launch. They have passed two out of the three tests. The last test that the satellites did not pass is the speed test. Iranian scientists are working on different solutions to make these satellites safe to send into orbit without failure. In… Read more »
by Dana Halawi BEIRUT, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Lebanese analysts are mostly optimistic about the outcome of the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit due to be held in Beirut later this week. “This summit comes at a timely manner because when a country like Lebanon is facing an economic crisis, it needs a safety net and diplomacy to support… Read more »
US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate” Turkey’s economy if it carries out a military offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria, drawing a response from Ankara which warned Washington against “shadowing” the country’s strategic partnership with “terrorist propaganda”. Trump’s threat on Sunday came amid tensions between the United States and Turkey over the fate of Washington’s Syrian Kurdish allies in the fight against Islamic State of… Read more »
Iran has conducted one of at least two satellite launches it plans despite criticism by the United States, but the satellite failed to reach orbit, an official said. “The Payam satellite was successfully launched this morning with the Basir satellite carrier. But the satellite, unfortunately, failed to be placed in orbit in the final stage,” Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi told Iranian state… Read more »
Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem – Huddled around an electric heater on a chilly winter day, four Palestinian women sit nervously, making calls to acquaintances to ask about homes for rent in the city. “We can’t leave it to the last minute. We have to figure it out – the Israelis can come at any time to evict us from our… Read more »
Jordan’s Professional Unions Association will place the Israeli flag on the ground, to be walked upon by those coming and going, at every entrance of its offices, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported. The decision, Haaretz said, came in response to a complaint Israel submitted to Jordan’s foreign ministry last week when Jordan’s Information Minister Jumana Ghunaimat was pictured stepping on the Israeli… Read more »
In the last month. there has been a lot of bombing attacks against Syria, after President Trump announced to withdraw thousands of American troops from Syria. The U.S. is targeting villages in Syria that are connected to terrorist group ISIL. Within those villages was a hospital that was bombed illegally by the United States. Theis attack broke laws regarding, “The… Read more »
Egypt’s interior ministry has said at least 40 fighters have been killed on Saturday in response to an attack on a tourist bus in which four people were killed the night before. According to the official state news agency MENA, security forces killed the suspected fighters in raids in Giza and northern Sinai – a volatile desert region that has… Read more »
Brazil will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with only the date of the transfer to be decided, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking during a meeting with leaders of Brazil’s Jewish community in Rio de Janeiro, Netanyahu said the country’s President Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was “when, not if” he moves the embassy. “We attach… Read more »
by Ali Younes & Trevor Aaronson After President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria last month, the US military ramped up its bombing campaign against territory still held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the eastern part of the country, according to sources on the ground and photographs obtained in a joint… Read more »