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Iran president slams US recognition of Jerusalem as capital

Iran president slams US recognition of Jerusalem as capital

Iran’s president on Friday strongly criticized the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and urged Muslims to support the Palestinian cause. Hassan Rouhani also lashed out at the United States for imposing a ban on travelers from six largely Muslim countries. He was addressing a congregation after Friday prayers at Mecca Masjid in […]

February 16, 2018 | By | Reply More
Yemen rebels say Saudi airstrike on police building kills 8

Yemen rebels say Saudi airstrike on police building kills 8

Yemeni rebels say an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition fighting them struck a police building in the rebel-controlled capital, Sanaa, killing eight people. In a statement by their military media unit, the rebels, known as Houthis, say that a child was killed in the Sunday attack that badly damaged a department of records building […]

February 4, 2018 | By | Reply More
Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 38, wounds 105

Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 38, wounds 105

Iraqi officials have raised the death toll from a twin suicide bombing in a Baghdad market to 38. Two police officers and four health officials say Monday’s early morning attack also wounded 105 other people. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information. Earlier reports by spokesmen from […]

January 15, 2018 | By | Reply More
Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area

Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area

Syria’s government is allowing the evacuation of nearly 30 critically ill people from a besieged Damascus suburb, where hundreds requiring medical treatment have been prevented from reaching hospitals minutes away. The government recently tightened its siege of eastern Ghouta, home to some 400,000 people, leading to severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter […]

December 27, 2017 | By | Reply More
Israeli troops kill three Palestinians, wound scores in protests over Jerusalem

Israeli troops kill three Palestinians, wound scores in protests over Jerusalem

Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians and wounded 150 others on Friday, medical officials said, as protests over U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital entered a second week. Most of the casualties were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the […]

December 15, 2017 | By | Reply More
Hunger at Damascus door as Syrian government blocks aid

Hunger at Damascus door as Syrian government blocks aid

At the doors of the Syrian capital, children with wrinkled faces and arms like sticks are going hungry because President Bashar Assad’s forces, supported by Russia and Iran, are blocking trucks filled with humanitarian relief. As the government and its opponents wrap up another fruitless round of talks in Geneva, humanitarian officials warn that conditions […]

December 14, 2017 | By | Reply More
At least 39 Yemenis dead in Saudi-led raid on police camp in Sanaa

At least 39 Yemenis dead in Saudi-led raid on police camp in Sanaa

Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some prisoners, an official and witnesses said. The strike is part of an air campaign by the Western-backed coalition on the Iran-allied Houthis that has escalated since the Houthis […]

December 13, 2017 | By | Reply More
Saudi Arabia lifts the 35-year-old ban on cinemas

Saudi Arabia lifts the 35-year-old ban on cinemas

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have announced that the ban on public cinemas will be lifted after more than 30 years. The movies will return to the country in March, 2018, following news that the building of new cinema facilities in the capital of Riyadh was announced in October. Cinemas have been banned since 1982, after […]

December 11, 2017 | By | Reply More
Russian strikes kill 53 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor

Russian strikes kill 53 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor

At least 53 civilians, including 21 children, perished early Sunday morning when Russian air strikes hit “residential buildings” in a village held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit the village of Al-Shafah in Deir Ezzor province, on the eastern […]

November 27, 2017 | By | Reply More
Militants kill more than 235 at Sinai mosque in Egypt’s deadliest attack

Militants kill more than 235 at Sinai mosque in Egypt’s deadliest attack

Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down worshippers in the deadliest such attack in Egypt’s modern history, state media and witnesses said. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but since 2013 Egyptian security forces have battled an Islamic State affiliate in the mainly […]

November 25, 2017 | By | Reply More