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December 26, 2015

The power of tribal politics in Yemen should not be ignored

Last week, as Houthi, Saleh and Hadi representatives met in Geneva for UN-sponsored peace talks, there was a ceasefire on the ground. On the first day of the talks,...

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December 26, 2015

Iraqi Shia leader calls for release of Qatari kidnap victims

The representative of Iraq’s top Shia spiritual leader called on Friday for the release of the Qataris kidnapped in Iraq, AlKhaleeonline.com has reported. A group of armed Iraqis kidnapped...

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December 26, 2015

UN can take issue of enforced disappearances in Egypt to ICC, warns former vice president

A Nobel laureate and former vice president has warned that the UN Security Council is able to take the issue of enforced disappearances in Egypt to the International Criminal...

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December 26, 2015

Israelis kill two Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Friday and wounded more than 30 others in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of...

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December 26, 2015

Qatar accuses Assad of being ‘main sponsor of terror’

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Friday that Syria’s Assad regime is the main sponsor of terror, Felesteen newspaper has reported. “I think that Bashar Al-Assad is one of the...

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December 26, 2015

Sunni tribes protest against Kurds in Syria

Dozens of Syrian Sunnis protested on Friday against the hostile practices of the Kurdish Units for the Protection of the Kurdish People in Tal Abyad neighbourhood, in the countryside...

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December 26, 2015

More than 600 Tunisian Jihadists return home

More than 600 Tunisian Jihadists have returned to their homes after fighting in Syria, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on Friday. Speaking to journalists during a conference...

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December 26, 2015

Senior Israeli officers resign over failure of war outcomes

A number of senior Israeli officers have resigned recently over the failure to evaluate the outcomes of last year’s offensive against the people of Gaza, local media reported on...

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December 26, 2015

Interview with lawyer Hassan Tabajeh, speaking to Abdul Elah, Editor, Al-Madena newspaper

The decision to ban the Islamic Movement in Israel by the far-right government raised a series of legal questions regarding the new status of private, institutional or organisational work...
December 26, 2015

Playing both sides in Syria

For several years now in this column I have argued that the strategic aim of both Israel and the US in the Syria conflict has been to to actively...

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