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April 16, 2018

Saudi Arabia donates $200m to Palestinians

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz today announced a £150,000 million donation to support Jerusalem’s Islamic endowment programmes and to fund the maintenance of the Islamic heritage and holy...

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April 16, 2018

Egypt’s Sisi calls for Palestinian reconciliation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today called for the ending of “the Palestinian division” and for “an immediate” international investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria....

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April 15, 2018

Israel closes Golan airspace after Syria airstrikes

Israel closed airspace over the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday in the wake of a US-led airstrike in Syria, according to Israeli media. Airlines were told that they would...

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April 15, 2018

Pope deeply disturbed by lack of efforts to bring peace to Syria

Pope Francis called on world leaders on Sunday to renew efforts to bring peace to Syria, saying he was deeply troubled by their failure to agree on a joint...

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April 15, 2018

Israel to free 200 African migrants awaiting deportation

Israel will release about 200 jailed African migrants in the absence of a final deal to deport them and thousands more Eritrean and Sudanese men who entered the country...

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April 15, 2018

Qatari emir not attending Arab summit in Saudi Arabia

Qatar will not be represented by a senior official at an Arab summit taking place in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in a sign that a nearly year-old dispute between...

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April 15, 2018

Syria’s Assad tells Russian lawmakers Western strikes were act of aggression

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a group of Russian lawmakers on Sunday that Western missile strikes on his country were an act of aggression, Russian news agencies reported. The...

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April 15, 2018

Syrian army announces eastern Ghouta free of militants

Syria’s army command on Saturday announced that the eastern Ghouta region was free of militants, following the departure of the last rebel fighters from the city of Douma towards...

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April 15, 2018

Russia fails in UN bid to condemn US-led strikes on Syria

A Russian bid for the United Nations Security Council to condemn US, British and French air strikes on Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack failed on Saturday after...

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April 15, 2018

Germany says will push for new international effort to end war in Syria

Germany will join France to push for a new international effort to achieve a lasting ceasefire in Syria, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturday according to a...

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