All Stories

July 1, 2021

‘I will not be blackmailed:’ Ghada Najibe responds to Turkey’s request she stop posting on social media

An outspoken Egyptian revolutionary living in exile in Turkey has refused requests from the Turkish authorities to stop posting on social media. Last week her husband, Egyptian opposition journalist...

News
July 1, 2021

Jerusalem icon Muna El-Kurd highlights Sheikh Jarrah struggle in graduation speech

Palestinian activist Muna El-Kurd who, along with her twin brother Mohammed, has become a symbol of the Jerusalemites’ struggle against Israel’s systematic ethnic cleansing policy, chose to convey the...

News
July 1, 2021

Israel continues to detain Palestinian MPs on International Day of Parliamentarism

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, yesterday condemned the ongoing Israeli detention of Palestinian MPs on the UN’s annual International Day of Parliamentarism, 30 June. Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif...

News
July 1, 2021

Israel interior minister gives Arab party ultimatum over family reunification law

Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked has issued the head of the only Arab party in the country’s coalition government an ultimatum that if he does not support the extension...

News
July 1, 2021

Sudan: Police disperse protest condemning deteriorating living conditions

Police in the Sudanese capital Khartoum yesterday dispersed a demonstration denouncing the deteriorating living conditions, which coincided with the second anniversary of the 30 June movement. Hundreds of protesters...

News
July 1, 2021

Iran official defends execution of minors

A member of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, Majid Tafreshi, has defended his country’s use of the death penalty against minors, saying it does not constitute a human...

News
July 1, 2021

Syria’s foreign fighters are told, ‘Go home or join HTS’

Hundreds of frontline foreign fighters have been told to fall under the direct control of the main rebel group leading the Syrian civil war in the Idlib region or...

Article
June 30, 2021

Ethiopia says building up defense along western border with Sudan

Ethiopia on Wednesday said it would shift its focus to building up its defense along the western border, where the country has been constructing a $5billion massive hydro dam...

News
June 30, 2021

Red Cross reveals that children held in northeast Syria prisons

Hundreds of children are incarcerated in adult prisons in northeastern Syria, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday, disclosing their plight as inmates for the...

News
June 30, 2021

Iraq vaccinates all prisoners against COVID-19

Iraqi health authorities have vaccinated prisoners against the coronavirus in all detention facilities across the country, according to the Justice Ministry on Wednesday, Reuters reports. “Visits were resumed after...

News

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter