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May 31, 2015

UN, UK condemn Saturday’s barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo

The UN envoy to Syria and the British foreign secretary both condemned Sunday the Assad regime’s barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo in northwestern Syria. At least 136 people, including...

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May 31, 2015

Mavi Marmara attack remembered in Gaza

Scores of Palestinians on Saturday marked the anniversary of a deadly attack by the Israeli navy on a Turkish aid flotilla that sought to break the siege on the...

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May 31, 2015

Iraqi army shelling leaves 19 dead, 76 injured in Fallujah

At least 19 people were killed and 76 others were wounded as a result of shelling by Iraqi forces against ISIS in Fallujah in the past three days, medical...

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May 31, 2015

Number of displaced Iraqis reaches three million

The number of displaced people registered by the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement has reached three million, a government official said Sunday. Asghar Al-Mosawi, deputy minister of the...

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May 31, 2015

Opposition says ISIS controls 80 percent of Syria’s oil

A map prepared by the opposition Syrian interim government showed that ISIS now controls around 80 percent of Syria’s oil and natural gas, while the Assad regime is in...

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May 31, 2015

Iraq: Erbil warns Baghdad it may sell oil ‘on its own’

The regional government in Erbil has the right to sell its own oil if Baghdad does not uphold its part of an oil agreement, the Iraqi Kurdish administration’s parliament...

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May 31, 2015

US-Egyptian activist freed from Egypt prison

Egypt on Saturday freed American-Egyptian activist Mohammed Soltan after he renounced his Egyptian citizenship, Soltan’s family and lawyer have said. “It is with pleasure that we confirm that our...

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May 30, 2015

Syria: Assad regime bombs claim 85 lives in Aleppo

At least 85 people were killed in alleged barrel bomb attacks carried out by the Assad regime in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Saturday, a Syrian opposition...

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May 30, 2015

Saleh claims Saudis offered him millions to fight Houthis

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh claimed on Friday that the Saudi authorities had offered him millions of US dollars in order to fight against the Houthi militias, AFP...

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May 30, 2015

Aswany insists on remaining in Egypt

Alaa Al-Aswany, the well-known Egyptian novelist and has said that he is coming under increasing pressure much more than during the Mubarak era, media sources reported on Friday. “Newspapers,...

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