The embassy of the UAE was involved in fraud against scores of workers and employees, including secretaries, chefs, translators, drivers and housekeepers, Belgian newspaper DH revealed last week. According to Rassd news network,...
A gunman was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for his role in a foiled 2015 terrorist attack on a European train. Ayoub El Khazzani, a 31-year-old trained Daesh fighter,...
A detained Saudi prince has reportedly been moved to a secret location by the authorities, prompting a European lawmaker to write a letter urging for clarity on the location...
An Iranian diplomat suspected of leading a failed state-sponsored bomb attack in Europe has received a 20-year prison sentence in Belgium. Assadollah Assadi, 48, faced trial in Antwerp, Belgium, last week, alongside...
A Belgian policeman is in court today over the death of a Kurdish toddler he accidentally shot in May 2018, Agence France Presse (AFP) reports. The officer shot two-year-old Mawda Shawri...
Two US servicemen and their friend who foiled a Daesh (ISIS) terror attack have appeared in a Paris court as witnesses. US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, US airman Spencer...
![Palestinian children check the destruction in a children's playground, that was built with funding from Belgium, in the Zatarah village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, after it was demolished on 12 April 2016 by Israeli authorities who said it was built in the so-called Area C, a closed military zone where Israel exercises full control. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-520604188-e1605604774582.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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November 17, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday met with the Commander of his Naval Forces, Lieutenant General Ahmed Khaled, Prime Minister, Mustafa Madbouly, and Minister of Petroleum, Tariq Al-Mulla, to...
Israel has refused to pay Belgium compensation for the demolition of four Palestinian homes, local outlets reported yesterday. Belgium demanded reparations last week after claiming the houses were built as part...
Belgium on Friday condemned Israel's destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the occupied West Bank, urged Tel Aviv to refrain from destroying Palestinian schools and demanding compensation for Palestinians affected...
More than 600 children born to Daesh members who are European nationals are being detained with their mothers in camps run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, a new...
The son of an Iraqi refugee who emigrated to Belgium in 1970 has become the country's new minister for migration and asylum. Sammy Mahdi, 32 of the Flemish Christian...
A number of Belgian Jews have claimed that their country's new coalition government will be extremely critical of Israel, the Times of Israel has reported. Belgian MPs agreed to...
Syria's Assad regime yesterday slammed the donor conference held in Brussels as "flagrant interference" in its internal affairs, AFP reported. In a statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry, Damascus considered...
Jordan has issued more than 190,000 work permits to Syrian refugees in Jordan, RT Arabic reported the Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Safadi, saying yesterday. The needs of Syrian...
The United Nations yesterday urged international donors to double their financial pledges to support Syrian refugees and countries which shelter them in the region in an effort to reach...
The Belgian parliament today passed a resolution urging the government to call on the European Union to impose sanctions against Israel if it proceeds with its plan to annex large swaths...
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives will today be voting on whether to "formally recognise the State of Palestine." The resolution, said Socialist MP Malik Ban Achour, urges the federal...
The chief of Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) has reportedly been convicted after publishing an interview with a former Iranian diplomat who criticised Tehran's "arbitrary" intelligence operations in Europe. According to...
A number of Belgian NGOs have called to put pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities in order to release blocked Palestinian tax money to enable the Palestinian Authority (PA)...
An infamous Saudi cargo ship suspected of carrying weapons to be used in the war in Yemen has been forced to alter its route more than once, after facing...
Israel has launched an attack on a renowned children's rights organisation, prompted by an invitation by Belgium to host the NGO at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Defence...
For the past six years, the United Nations and other aid groups have been crossing into Syria from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan at four places authorized by the UN...
Oman's Sultan Qaboos will travel to Belgium on Saturday for unspecified medical checks, his court said, Reuters reports. Western-backed Qaboos, 79, has ruled the Arabian peninsula state since he...
Turkey continues to deport foreign Daesh fighters captured during its operations in northern Syria. In the past three weeks, the Turkish authorities have deported 21 foreign Daesh fighters to...
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US Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted the authorities, a federal police...
Two Daesh militants from Belgium have escaped custody in northern Syria in the course of Turkey's offensive against Kurdish forces there, the head of Belgium's security assessment agency said...
An Iraqi migrant who died attempting to swim the Channel from France to Britain has been recovered off the coast of Belgium. The stretch of water between England and...

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August 21, 2019 |
Rebecca Stead Cycling4Gaza will travel across four countries to highlight the freedoms enjoyed by many in Europe but denied to Palestinians in the occupied territories
Six Belgian children of Daesh members were brought back to Belgium on Friday from camps in Syria as reported on Reuters. The children, ranging in age from six to...
Belgian State Council decided on Friday to suspend the licenses of arms exports to Saudi Arabia fearing their use against civilians in Yemen, media sources reported. In recent months...
Belgian authorities said on Saturday that they are ready to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia if it is proven that they have been used in conflicts with other...