Category: 3. Middle East

United States military strikes in Yemen have killed 68 people and wounded 47 as they hit a detention centre holding African migrants, according to Houthi-affiliated media reports.

The strike in the Saada governorate, a Houthi stronghold, is the…

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed 31 people from the Salha area, including children, in the largest documented mass killing in the area, the Sudanese Doctors Network said yesterday.

The network warned that…

The Syrian presidency asserted yesterday its rejection of any attempts to impose a separatist status quo or to establish federal entities or autonomous administration that would fragment the country, stressing that…

Two sources from Jaish al-Islam, a military faction now part of Syria’s transitional authorities, told AFP on Monday that its leader had been arrested at Dubai airport several days ago.

Since 2015, Issam Buwaydani has been head of Jaish al-Islam,…

A top Palestinian official told the International Court of Justice on Monday that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza as a “weapon of war”, starting off a week of hearings at the UN’s top court.

Israel is not participating…

French authorities have condemned the fatal stabbing as an ‘Islamophobic attack’ and a hate crime.

Italian police have arrested a man suspected of killing a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in southern France in an “Islamophobic attack”.

The…

Morocco’s Justice and Development Party re-elected Abdelilah Benkirane as its secretary-general for a second term.

Benkirane received 69 per cent of the vote – 974 votes, while his rivals, Idriss Azami Idrissi won…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has called on the United States and France, the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement with Israel, to shoulder their responsibilities and force Israel to immediately halt its attacks.

Al-Azhar, the top Sunni Islamic scholarly institution in Egypt, yesterday condemned the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque in the village of La Grand-Combe in the Gard region of southern France.

In…