Category: Middle East
Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been plagued by terrorist attacks that have claimed many victims and more than 1.9 million internally displaced people. Terrorist attacks in this country have even multiplied in recent months, targeting civilians and soldiers alike. Recently, simultaneous attacks by jihadists in northern Burkina Faso killed nine civilian army auxiliaries and three […]
The UN working group will meet in June to consider reports on the universal periodic review (40th session). The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process that involves a periodic review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States. The UPR is a significant innovation of the Human Rights Council which […]
At least 15 children, the vast majority of whom were under the age of one, have died in Syria in recent weeks due to winter cold and lack of care, according to the UN. “With cold temperatures and lack of care,” at least eight children died in Rokbane, an IDP camp in southern Syria, while […]
Hundreds of Palestinians witnessed Saturday’s funeral of a 12-year-old boy killed by Israeli soldiers the day before in clashes on the Gaza-Israel border. Chadi Abdel Aal was fatally wounded east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, becoming one of the youngest victims in nearly six months of clashes between Gazans and Israeli soldiers. The […]
Expulsion of the Canadian Ambassador to Riyadh, freeze all new commercial transactions or investments with the country in reminder of the 15,000 Saudi scholarship students at Canadian universities. These measures intended to mean a brutal and comprehensive break were announced Monday by the Saudi government in response to calls by the Ottawa government for the […]
The new US embassy, one of Donald Trump’s most controversial promises, was inaugurated in Jerusalem. But this resulted in a bloodbath in Gaza. According to a provisional assessment, on Monday night, at least 55 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. More than 2,000 protesters were wounded on that day, the deadliest of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
Due to power cuts of more than 20 hours a day that have become a rule these days, the water crisis has prompted the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip to dig wells without authorization, ignoring consequences for serious threats to already scarce aquifer reserves. Omar Hamid, head of a family of nine, told Al-monitor, “the […]
A suicide car bombing targeted a meeting of jihadi rebels in Idleb province in northwest Syria on Wednesday, causing dozens of people dead and wounded, insurgent sources said. The target was a textile factory transformed into a headquarters by the Islamist rebel alliance Tahrir al-Sham, whose main component is the former Front al-Nosra linked to […]
Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians on Wednesday in an operation in the West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said. The incident took place before dawn in a refugee camp in Jenin. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the two Palestinians killed were 16 and 21 years old. A third person was injured by a […]
An operation to evacuate residents of besieged localities in Syria turned into carnage with the death of 126 people, in a suicide attack Saturday, one of the deadliest attacks in six years of war.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), at least 68 children were among the 126 dead and the death toll […]
