An international rights group has urged Libyan strongman’s self-styled army to lift its siege inside an eastern Mediterranean city where civilians have been trapped. Human Rights Watch said that over the past two weeks, General [ More … ]
Locals warn of dwindling resources as Khalifa Haftar’s siege of the city enters seventh day Residents of the eastern city of Derna are facing critical shortages as Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar’s troops, Known as Libyan [ More … ]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the list of demands were aimed at curbing Qatar’s sovereignty A list of 13 demands submitted by four Arab states to Qatar as a condition to lift their boycott [ More … ]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a “siege” imposed on Qatar by four Arab states that recently cut ties with Doha is ‘unacceptable’. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar, [ More … ]
Ships from India will now arrive directly in Qatar’s Hamad Port without having to stop anywhere in the Gulf, offering fresh relief to the small emirate blockaded by its neighbours. Ships full of food and [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has called on allies in the Gulf to escalate the diplomatic row with Qatar to include Turkey. According to the news outlet, Al-Sisi urged Gulf leaders to expand their boycott until Ankara [ More … ]
As the Gaza Strip marked the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s siege of the small Palestinian enclave on Thursday, the humanitarian situation has continued to alarm rights groups, which have denounced the “inhuman conditions unparalleled in [ More … ]
Thousands of people have died, and even more injured and displaced from their homes as fighting rages in Yemen. The New Arab has published a report titled, “Taiz: Life and death in Yemen’s theater of [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi paid on Saturday a one-day official visit to Kenya upon an invitation from his Kenyan counterpart. At the presidential palace located in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, al-Sisi and Kenyatta discussed ways to enhance bilateral relations [ More … ]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a report on Tuesday outlining the dire humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip and reiterating its support for lifting the decade-long siege of the territory, [ More … ]
The United Nations humanitarian envoy for Syria today urged actions to stave off the threat of mass hunger in eastern Aleppo before the arrival of winter, which will be added to the daily massacres the [ More … ]
Israel on Friday paid Turkey $20 million in compensation over the 2010 Mavi Marmara tragedy involving a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Turkish diplomatic sources said, reported Anadolu Agency. On Aug. 20, Turkish parliament approved a deal, involving Tel [ More … ]
Activists on the social networking sites have expressed their outrage and anger toward the Arab officials who attended the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres and expressed their condolences to Peres’s family and the [ More … ]
Israel plans to build a massive concrete wall along its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip with the stated aim of destroying cross-border tunnels dug by Gaza-based resistance groups, the Israeli press reported Wednesday, Anadolu [ More … ]
Israeli authorities Thursday suspended postal services to the besieged Gaza Strip via the Erez crossing after Israeli forces intercepted shipments of products that they believed could be used for military purposes, according to officials at [ More … ]
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