Four UN council members issue Egypt ultimatum on settlements
New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal told Egypt on Thursday that if it did not clarify by midnight whether it planned to call a vote on a draft UN...
December 23, 2016
New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal told Egypt on Thursday that if it did not clarify by midnight whether it planned to call a vote on a draft UN...
December 23, 2016
The killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening might have prompted knee-jerk comparisons to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, but it almost certainly won’t spark...
December 23, 2016
Israel asked President-elect Donald Trump to apply pressure to avert UN approval of a resolution demanding an end to settlement building after it learned the Obama administration intended to...
December 23, 2016
December 23, 2016
Bana Alabed, the young Syrian girl who drew global attention with her tweets from Aleppo before being evacuated to Turkey this week, says she hopes to go back to her hometown...
December 23, 2016
December 23, 2016
The Syrian army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last opposition fighters were evacuated from the battered city, handing President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory...
December 22, 2016
We have finally encountered the 35th anniversary of the Israeli Knesset’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which took place on 14 December 1981. There is also been the issue...
December 22, 2016
Israeli forces today demolished the unrecognised Bedouin village for Al-Araqeeb in the Negev for the 107th time. According to locals, Israeli bulldozers demolished the village. A yard and a...
December 22, 2016
Egypt postponed a UN Security Council vote due to take place today on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel’s prime...