Saudi protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling on authorities to overturn the death sentence handed to prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The Saudis staged a rally in the Qatif region of ...
A humanitarian aid ship, which set sail from a port in Sweden, is now en route to the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s years-long blockade on the impoverished Palestinian territory. The Marianne of Gothenburg, which ...
A number of Ethiopians arrested during last week’s protests against the Tel Aviv regime’s racism and police brutality say they were abused while in custody. The Ethiopians said the Israeli police denied them medical treatment ...
Israel has approved the construction of 900 new illegal settler units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), despite mounting international criticism of its expansionist policies. An Israeli activist group known as Peace Now said on Thursday that ...
A U.N. inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured by direct mortar strikes and other « Israeli actions » while sheltering at U.N. locations during last year’s Gaza war. ...
Israeli forces have abducted at least five Palestinians during an overnight raid on a number of houses in the occupied West Bank. The arrests were made in the northern city of Jenin on Sunday, according ...
Briefing members of the international press this afternoon at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the “epic humanitarian catastrophe” facing the 18,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians being held hostage by extremist militants in Yarmouk ...
The Palestinian health ministry has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip if Israel does not lift its crippling siege on the region. The ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in an interview on ...
Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with Takfiri insurgents who had infiltrated from neighboring Pakistan, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. « Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed ...
It was not immediately clear which group was responsible for the kidnapping, though Kurdish officials accused Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which is active in Idlib province. « A group of 300 people on five coaches and ...