Tag Archives: Middle East

The international community should move now to prevent another disaster in a country already devastated by war.

United Nations warns dwindling funds are affecting much-needed assistance and adding to children’s struggles.

The Saudi-led coalition forces have impounded another Yemen-bound oil tanker carrying thousands of tons of fuel for the crisis-stricken country in blatant breach of a two-month ceasefire brokered by the United Nations.

Official Syrian media on Wednesday reported airstrikes in Deir Ez-Zur, in the northeastern country. The airstrikes took place in an area near a bridge in the city of Deir Ez-Zur, SANA reported. Local Syrian sources say initial reports indicate that an unidentified military warplane targeted the area. No further details …

A Canadian author and journalist say US President Joe Biden is continuing the “messy belligerence” of his ill-famed predecessor in the Middle East by fawning over the Israeli regime.

More than 3,000 refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a UN refugee agency report showed on Friday, reporting the highest toll in recent years. Thousands of Africans take long, perilous journeys to Europe each …

According to the Syrian news media, the country’s air defense on Wednesday repealed an Israeli attack above Damascus. News sources on early Wednesday reported that the sound of several explosions was heard over the skies of the Syrian capital of Damascus. A military source told SANA that the Israeli regime …

Lebanon’s cabinet ordered the military court on Tuesday to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after colliding with a naval vessel giving chase, with at least six dead and dozens missing. The boat carrying Lebanese and Syrian migrants sank off the coast near the impoverished northern city of Tripoli …

Israel says the move came after a rocket was fired from southern Lebanon, landing in an open area across the border. Israeli forces have fired dozens of artillery shells into southern Lebanon after a rocket was launched over the border from Lebanon. An Israeli military spokesperson tweeted that artillery forces …

The boat capsized shortly after leaving the northern coastal town of Qalamoun near Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city. The Lebanese Red Cross said on social media that a boat with about 60 people on board sank near the port of Tripoli on Saturday. Several ambulances were sent to the port. “The …

Local residents have been turned into “strangers” in their own hometown of Jeddah due to mass demolitions of homes and displacements, all under the latest ambitious project of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the strategic Red Sea port city. The residents say Saudi authorities are destroying vibrant working-class …

News sources reported that the Yemeni ceasefire has been violated by the Saudi coalition forces 89 times during the past day. Ansarullah, quoting a Yemeni military source, reported that the violation includes the construction of military bases, as well as the attacks and flights of 12 Saudi spy planes over …

With the martyrdom of another Palestinian on Tuesday, the number of martyrs in the West Bank has risen to five in the past 48 hours. The Israeli regime’s army on Tuesday announced that its forces have martyred a Palestinian and claimed that he intended to stab a Zionist policeman with …

Local media in the occupied Palestinian lands reported a massive fire in northern occupied lands on Friday. The fire is reported to be burning a structure in the northern city of Acre on Friday afternoon. Hebrew-language media reported that a fire broke out in a structure under construction and rescue …

The former Yemeni president, a staunch ally of Riyadh, has handed over his self-proclaimed powers to a newly established body, in what appears to be another sign of the failure of the Saudi-led war that began seven years ago with the main goal of reinstalling him by force. A Thursday …

Israeli forces have detained 10 Palestinians in multiple raids across the occupied West Bank and injured dozens of others in anti-settlement protests in the occupied Palestinian territory. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said heavily-armed Israeli police on Friday rounded up five Palestinians, including three brothers, after forcibly entering their houses …

The number of migrants trying to force their way into Poland from Belarus fell again on Friday after an apparent change in tack by Minsk that could help calm a crisis that has escalated into a major East-West confrontation. The Polish Border Guard said on Twitter that there were 195 …

How Israel keeps its foes and friends on the defensive. Israeli hyperbole is as old as the Israeli state. It is tautological, serving as the raison d’être and modus operandi of Israel, the garrison state. It is farcical, fantastical, and also dangerous in the way it surpasses mere rhetoric to …

Turkish authorities detained 17 people on Wednesday for putting a hood over the head of a visiting US Navy civilian employee in a protest against the United States policy in the Middle East, the Istanbul governor’s office said. The group that carried out the act, the Turkey Youth Union (TGB), …

Israel has decided to push ahead with a plan to build 7,000 new settler units in the occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights, despite a global outcry. The so-called Israeli ‘Ministry of Housing’ is currently in the process of implementing the controversial plan, which is scheduled to complete in 2026, …