https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/middleeast/yemen-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-un-intl/index.html The War in Yemen is now reaching its fourth year of continued warfare. Over the past four years, over 22 million people have been displaced and are now seeking aid. These 22 million people make up three quarters of the population of Yemen. The United Nations Security General, Antonio Guterre said that over 8 million people do not know… Read more »
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-israel.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmiddleeast&action=click&contentCollection=middleeast®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince has said that Israelis “have the right to have their own land” and that formal relations between Israel and the kingdom could be mutually beneficial. The comments by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in an interview published on Monday reflected the distinctly warmer tone toward Israel adopted recently by the de facto ruler of… Read more »
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/world/middleeast/netanyahu-africa-migrants-rwanda.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmiddleeast&action=click&contentCollection=middleeast®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed down under pressure before, but rarely in such a spectacular fashion as he did on Tuesday when he reneged on a deal with the United Nations to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in Western countries. Mr. Netanyahu announced the deal to great fanfare on Monday, only to suspend it a… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/middleeast/saudi-arabia-intercepts-missile/index.html — Saudi Arabia says one person was killed after seven missiles were fired from Yemen by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday. It’s the first death on Saudi soil since the Saudi-led coalition began a military intervention in Yemen three years ago. The missiles were fired at four targets, including the capital city of Riyadh, and all were intercepted and… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/opinions/gaza-hamas-israel-protest-opinion-robertson/index.html Human waves moving forward, slingshots in the hands of some, the tide turning as one fell, crowds parting as rough hands hurriedly carted another victim from the confrontation. But these are no coincidental casualties — a calculated plan is unfolding. to throw down civilian lives to achieve it. For Israelis, there exists a deep-seated fear that Palestinians and Arabs… Read more »
“Oh my God,” the architecture student replied. She climbed into the driver’s seat, put on her seatbelt, found the pedals, released the hand brake and put the car into drive. Then she took a deep breath, eased her foot off the brake and began doing, for the first time, what women will soon be doing all over Saudi Arabia: driving…. Read more »
The plane carried out a series of attacks in November on the town of Al Atarib, west of Aleppo, killing at least 84 people and injuring more than 150, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria said. The strikes may not have specifically targeted civilians, the panel ruled, but the use of unguided blast bombs in a densely populated… Read more »
The request followed an announcement from the Kurdish forces, which are allied with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State militant group, that they intended to send 1,700 fighters from Deir al-Zour, a strategically important eastern province, to the fight against Turkey in Afrin, a Kurdish enclave. Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/middleeast/ghouta-protest-intl/index.html Activists in besieged Eastern Ghouta have taken to wrapping dead bodies in United Nations banners to express residents’ “frustration” with the international community, activist monitoring group the Damascus Media Center told CNN. One such photo, showing two children wrapped in the flag of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), made the rounds on social media over the weekend. Activist Rami… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/04/middleeast/guatemala-jerusalem-embassy/index.html Recently at the American Israel Public Affairs committee’s conference in Washington D.C., Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced that the Guatemalan Embassy in Israel would move from Tel Av iv to Jerusalem. This will follow two days after the movement by the United States moves there embassy to Jerusalem in just two months. Morales further recognized Jerusalem as the capital… Read more »
