‘We need people who will take action in the name of humanity,’ says Mavi Marmara survivor
Cigdem Topcuoglu is a survivor of the attack on the Mavi Marmara flotilla in May 2010, during which her husband was shot in the head and killed by Israeli...
September 26, 2016
Cigdem Topcuoglu is a survivor of the attack on the Mavi Marmara flotilla in May 2010, during which her husband was shot in the head and killed by Israeli...
September 26, 2016
Day 1, Thursday 22 September 2016 It was very hard for me to leave Johannesburg, and the current struggles in South Africa around free higher education. Most of my...
September 26, 2016
Morocco’s governing Islamist party opened its campaign for the kingdom’s parliamentary election on Sunday, playing down tensions with the royal establishment. The 7 October ballot will be the second...
September 26, 2016
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if elected, the United States would recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the...
September 25, 2016
A major row is escalating in Britain over whether individual soldiers should be dragged through the courts and held to account for alleged war crimes carried out in Iraq...
September 25, 2016
Soon after Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip in June 1967, Israeli authorities began to establish civilian colonies – settlements – in the newly-occupied territory. Initially small...
September 25, 2016
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal said he will not run for re-election as the head of the Palestinian group next year. “Khaled Meshaal will be the former head of...
September 25, 2016
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said late Saturday his country does not recognise a Houthi governing council in war-torn Yemen. Al-Jaafari met with his Yemeni counterpart Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi on...
September 25, 2016
Dating back to the 5th Millennium BC, the Erbil Citadel sits atop a large archaeological mound in the heart of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region...
September 25, 2016
All Palestinian inmates held in Israeli prisons have staged a three-day hunger strike following the death in custody of a fellow inmate at an Israeli detention centre. The Palestinians...