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February 5, 2017

UK: Thousands march in London to protest Trump

Thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in front of the US Embassy in London to protest a travel ban introduced on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees. Approximately 10,000...

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February 5, 2017

Israeli court sentences 16-year-old Palestinian girl to 6 years in prison

An Israeli court on Sunday morning sentenced a teenage Palestinian girl from Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem to six years in prison after she was charged with knife possession...

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February 5, 2017

UAE soldier killed in Yemen in anti-Houthi operation

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) soldier was killed Saturday in war-torn Yemen as part of a Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi rebels, the country’s army command said. The Armed...

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February 5, 2017

60 Daesh suspects detained in Turkish capital

Anti-terrorism police in the capital Ankara have detained 60 Daesh-linked suspects early Sunday morning, security sources said. The suspects, most of them foreign nationals, have been charged with being members of...

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February 5, 2017

Georgia cancels Gulen-linked school’s license

On Saturday, Georgian Ministry of Education cancelled the license of a school in Batumi that is known to be linked to the US-based renegade Turkish cleric, Fetullah Gulen. Sahin Primary...

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February 5, 2017

US appeals court orders blocking travel ban

The Department of Homeland Security has stopped flagging travellers from certain countries targeted by the ‘Muslim Ban’ order from President Donald Trump, in order to comply with a federal...

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February 5, 2017

UN refugee chief opposes ‘safe zones’ in Syria

The UN’s top official on refugees pushed back against a proposed initiative that has gained recent traction to create “safe zones” in Syria for refugees, saying the country was...

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February 4, 2017

Accusation that Louvre attacker is terrorist ‘nonsense’ says father

The father of the machete-wielding man who was shot by a guard as he tried to enter Paris’s Louvre museum said today his son was not an Islamist nor...

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February 4, 2017

Egypt denies bombing South Sudan as threat of ‘regional war’ looms

South Sudan rebels accused Egypt today of carrying out bombing raids against their positions, drawing an immediate denial from Cairo, and warned of the risk of a regional war....

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February 4, 2017

US-backed militias in new phase of Raqqa assault

An alliance of US-backed militias started a new phase of its campaign against the Daesh-held city of Raqqa today, aiming to complete its encirclement and sever the road to...

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