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March 11, 2021

Booby-trapped Israel drones responsible for death of 3 Gaza fishermen, probe finds

Booby-trapped Israeli drones exploded and led to the death of three Palestinian fishermen in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, findings of an investigation by the enclave’s Ministry of...

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March 11, 2021

UNICEF: 12,000 children killed, injured in 10-year Syria war

The war in Syria has left the lives and futures of a generation of children hanging by a thread, UNICEF warned today, as the conflict nears the ten-year mark. The situation...

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March 11, 2021

Saudi court upholds sentence against Loujain AL-Hathloul

A Saudi court yesterday upheld the original sentence of women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul, who had championed women’s right to drive and for an end to Saudi Arabia’s male...

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March 11, 2021

Jordan refuses Netanyahu access to airspace for UAE trip

Jordan today refused to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through its airspace on his way to the UAE for his first official visit to the Emirates...

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March 11, 2021

Turkish and Russian foreign ministers meet in Qatar

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Qatar on Wednesday, Anadolu has reported. The development of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in the Turkish province...

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March 11, 2021

Yahya Sinwar re-elected as Hamas chief in Gaza

Yahya Sinwar has been re-elected as head of Hamas’ political wing in the Gaza Strip for a second four-year term, the movement’s spokesman Hazem Qassem said. The former member...

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March 11, 2021

Ben Ali assets in Switzerland transferred to Tunisia central bank

Switzerland has transferred 3.5 million Tunisian dinars ($1.27 million) of assets associated with former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to the Tunisian central bank, Reuters reported. The presidency said: “Following...

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March 11, 2021

Iraq’s Muqtada Al-Sadr supports PM call for national dialogue

Leader of the Iraqi Sadrist Movement and prominent Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr yesterday announced his support for Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s call for national dialogue, Anadolu reported. This came in a...

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March 11, 2021

Republicans push bill to block Biden easing Iran sanctions

US Republican Congressman Michael McCaul and twenty other Republican Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee have introduced a new bill that would enable Congress to review and, if...

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March 11, 2021

A decade on in Syria’s war, Assad has no moral high ground to cling to

As the Syrian uprising approaches yet another anniversary, enough blood has been spilled to fill the country’s barren rivers. More than ten years on, almost a million people have...

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