Category: 3. Middle East

A “perfect humanitarian storm” – that is how the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) describes Gaza, where aid workers endure the same hunger and fear as those they try to help, Anadolu reports.

The…

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was created in December 1949, almost two years after the UN voted for the partition of Palestine. It was, and still is, the only UN agency dedicated solely to one dispossessed population…

Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla who hoped to reach Gaza have been deported after being intercepted and detained in Israel. They say Israeli forces denied them food, water and medicine, and describe Greta Thunberg as being…

Massive pro-Palestinian protests have been held in cities across Europe to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza. Police made hundreds of arrests in various cities.

Syria will select the People’s Assembly on Sunday in the country’s first elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.

The elections are a historic moment after more than 50 years of dynastic, oppressive al-Assad rule and…

Israel on Sunday approved a new settlement plan to seize 35 dunams (9 acres) of land from the Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, a local official said, Anadolu…

Irakli Kobakhidze calls on EU ambassador to condemn Tbilisi protests, saying he bears ‘special responsibility’ for the unrest.

Georgia’s prime minister says…

A few metres away from the piles of stones that were once the first homes as you entered their small village, three men sat on a traditional woven bed.

One of them was Hayat’s cousin, Mehboob.

“When the earthquake happened, my 13-year-old…