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April 27, 2020

Official: Iraq, US to discuss troop withdrawal in June

A spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, revealed yesterday that Baghdad and Washington will negotiate in June the setting of a timetable...

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April 27, 2020

Doctors Without Borders warns of malaria outbreak in Yemen

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) yesterday warned of an “increasing risk of malaria outbreak in Yemen”, as rain floods the country. “With the start of the rain season, a risk...

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April 27, 2020

Egypt arrests crowd in fake Umrah celebration

Authorities have arrested several Egyptians after they took part in a street procession carrying a model of the Kaaba. The celebration was to mark the start of Ramadan, which...

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April 27, 2020

Lebanon: Petrol bombs hurled at banks in Sidon, Tyre, Tripoli

Two banks in southern, and two in northern Lebanon were damaged in separate attacks over the weekend, as public anger grows over the country’s economic crisis. A Fransabank branch...

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April 27, 2020

Egypt releases over 4,000 prisoners amid talk it has bowed to pressure over COVID-19 concerns

Egypt has released over 4,000 prisoners on Sinai Liberation Day suggesting it has bowed to pressure to ease overcrowding in case COVID-19 hits prisons. On Saturday the state-run media...

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April 27, 2020

PFLP criticises Abbas for blocking budget payment

The Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has criticised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for stopping the PLO’s National Fund from making a budget payment to the...

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April 27, 2020

Israel arrests more Palestinians in occupied West Bank and Jerusalem

Israeli occupation forces made a number of dawn arrests on Sunday, with Palestinians detained across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Arabi21.com has reported. Others who performed night prayers...

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April 27, 2020

PLO calls for immediate release of prisoner with Covid-19

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat called on Sunday for the Israeli occupation authorities to release without delay a Palestinian prisoner who has tested positive for coronavirus Covid-19, Wafa News...

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April 27, 2020

Nominations of Iraqi ministers rejected

Shia parties in Iraq have rejected the ministerial nominations of Prime Minister-Designate Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Sunday. The London-based website said that Al-Kadhimi had agreed to at...

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April 27, 2020

Israel reports: Putin instigated Russia media campaign against Syria’s Assad

Israeli media outlets quoted local intelligence sources as saying that the unprecedented Russian media campaign against Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad indicates that the Kremlin is fed up and...

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