Category: 3. Middle East

On June 27, El Hidaya Mosque in Roussillon in Southern France was attacked and vandalised. Windows were smashed and furniture overturned; the walls were plastered with racist flyers. Earlier the same month, a burned Quran was placed at the entrance…

Palestinians say they have no choice but to go to deadly US- and Israeli-backed aid sites amid growing starvation.

More than 700 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, according to new figures…

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) has formally submitted a request to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, calling for sanctions to be imposed against a number of officials within the…

At least 57,338 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement said that 70 bodies were brought…

Syrian authorities said Saturday that they have agreed to coordinate with Turkiye to launch joint firefighting operations in the countryside of Latakia, in the northwest of the country, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a…

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence to Algeria’s supreme court, said sources close to the author on Saturday, saying they remain hopeful for a pardon.

The 80-year-old dual national writer was…

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence to Algeria’s Supreme Court, sources close to the author said Saturday, as Paris stepped up its calls for him to be pardoned.

The 80-year-old dual national was…

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Saturday that it killed Israeli soldiers in an attack in the southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.

The group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said its fighters “raided…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called on Saturday for an immediate fuel delivery to the war-torn Gaza Strip ahead of an anticipated shutdown of basic services as Israel continued its war on the…

Three have died as blaze continues to rage in southern coastal area of Dortyol in Hatay province, which borders Syria.

A forestry worker injured in a wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir has died from his injuries, raising the death…