Category: 3. Middle East

Qastal Maaf, Latakia, Syria – Abu Jameel Muhammed’s weathered hands, blackened by soot and ash, trembled as he patted the scorched earth around what remained of his beloved olive tree. At 80, the Syrian elder had survived a brutal civil war,…

Lawyers for victims of human rights abuses committed during Peru’s decades-long armed conflict have pledged to appeal to international bodies to overturn a law passed by the country’s Congress, which would grant amnesty to prosecuted military…

Ongoing Israeli attacks on towns in the occupied West Bank are causing widespread destruction and severely worsening the humanitarian situation, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

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Fighters from PKK begin symbolic disarmament in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, ending decades-long battle with Turkiye.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun the first steps towards disarmament, closing a chapter on a four-decade armed…

United States President Donald Trump has drawn mockery after he complimented the president of Liberia for speaking English “beautifully”, even though it is the country’s official language.

“Such good English, where did you learn to speak…

Hamas said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is placing obstacles in the way of reaching an agreement that would secure the release of prisoners and end the aggression against the Gaza Strip. 

In a statement…

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Protesters in Brazil burned an effigy of Donald Trump as they gathered to condemn 50% US tariffs announced for Brazilian goods, which Trump has linked to the coup trial of his political ally former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.