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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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December 25, 2015

Female Saudi poet excluded from participating in a cultural function

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information on Thursday denounced the decision by Khalid Al-Faysal, the Emir of Makkah, on 21 December 2015 to bar poet Hind Al-Mutairi from...

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December 25, 2015

The politics behind the flight of Christians from the Holy Land

In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, Christmas has very special significance, with services and processions by all of the Christian denominations, including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Ethiopian and...

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December 25, 2015

Gaza: Israeli planes spray chemicals, ruin farmland

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza said that crops near the border with Israel were ruined after Israeli planes sprayed them with harmful chemicals. The ministry said the...

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December 25, 2015

Syria: Russian warplanes hit two hospitals in Aleppo

At least six civilians were killed and dozens were injured Friday in airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes in Aleppo, Syrian security sources said. The sources added that the...

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December 25, 2015

US paranoia and the affective life of documents

In the current era of xenophobia and paranoia, where every new face represents a potential threat and the media delights in stoking public hysteria about the looming presence of...

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