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  • January 16, 2016

    Hamas snubs Iranian normalisation offer

    The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – has refused an Iranian offer of normalisation and funds if it severed all ties with Saudi Arabia, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported...

    News
  • January 16, 2016

    Egypt: 99 cases of enforced disappearance

    A government human rights official in Egypt said on Friday that 99 Egyptian detainees have disappeared from prisons. Investigations are ongoing into 70 other cases of forced disappearance. Also...

    News
  • January 16, 2016

    Netanyahu threatens to ban Muslim prayer call and polygamy

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed on Friday a tirade of assaults against the Muslin community in Israel, accusing them of causing noise and violating law through the call...

    News
  • January 16, 2016

    Houthi kidnappings post-Arab Spring: the story of Dr. Al Guneid

    The Arab Spring has brought the plight of many new tribes, religions and even ethnic groups to the discussion platforms of Middle Eastern and North African politics. In Yemen,...

    Article
  • January 15, 2016

    Russia’s Syria intervention revived Assad regime: UK

    Russian intervention has revived the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday. In remarks made during his official visit to southern Turkey’s Adana province,...

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  • January 15, 2016

    Occurring now in Egypt

    The coup led government in Egypt is at the peak of its weakness, even though it does not show it. The hand of oppression, brutality and oppression has extended...

    Blog
  • January 15, 2016

    The week in pictures

    Step into the Middle East and see what’s been happening over the last seven days in pictures…...

    Videos & Photo Stories
  • January 15, 2016

    EU to provide $13m to Palestinians in need

    The European Union today announced that it would be sending €12.3 million ($13.4 million) to the Palestinian Authority’s social allowances programme to benefit poor Palestinian families living in the...

    News
  • January 15, 2016

    US church’s boycott of Israeli banks shocks and concerns Tel Aviv

    Israeli Foreign Ministry officials have expressed surprise at the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) decision to divest from five Israeli banks on the grounds of human rights concerns. Bank Hapoalim,...

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  • January 15, 2016

    Corrupt Egyptian plot to ‘slaughter’ anti-corruption chief

    Coup supporters are intensifying their fierce attack on Hisham Genena, who chairs Egypt’s Central Auditing Organisation (CAO), intending to character assassinate him in prelude to sacking him and potentially...

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