A fundraising event for Yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to take place in early March, hosted virtually by Sweden and Switzerland, four aid sources told Reuters on Sunday. A...
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up the opening of an investigation into Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, Anadolu Agency reported. A...
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK has written an open letter calling on world leaders to pressure the Saudi authorities to release the detained scholar Salman...
The UN Security Council has rejected Belgium's request to seize $59 million (49 million euros) of Libya's frozen assets, Libya's permanent delegate to the UN said Saturday, Anadolu Agency...
A report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and SAM for Rights and Liberties revealed that the Houthi group has forcibly recruited around 10,300 children in Yemen since 2014,...
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February 12, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed Having aligned their security interest with Israel, Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state.
Pakistan is hosting naval forces from 45 countries, including those from Russia and NATO, for the week-long Aman-2021 maritime exercise in the Arabian Sea. The Pakistan Navy said the naval exercise,...
East Sussex Pension Fund has divested from Israel's largest private arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, months after human rights activists lobbied the fund to bring an end to its ties...
At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported...
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February 12, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington, with Democratic President Joe Biden now safely in the White House, Europe is unlikely to resume its previously unhindered reliance on its...
![An old man holds flags of Turkey and Libya during a demonstration against eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar, who is based in the east of the country, and in support of the UN-recognised government of national accord (GNA) at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli on 10 January 2020. [Hazem Turkia - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200110_2_40267074_51088394.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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February 11, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul At the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Geneva on Friday, 75 members, including former statesmen and tribal leaders, elected a small Presidential Council and a prime minister to prepare...
The UN Security Council has failed to agree on a joint declaration for Syria, further delaying the peace process to settle the ongoing conflict in the country. According to...
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February 11, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority's recent, and unusual, response to the EU's statement condemning Israel's latest settlement expansion would have been welcomed if it came from a consistent political position. In...
Human Rights Watch has called on the Egyptian government to reverse the decision it made in December to revoke the citizenship of political activist Ghada Najibe. Parliament should amend...
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday pledged his country's support for the interim executive authority in Libya, Anadolu news agency reported. Al-Sisi's promise came during two separate phone calls made to Mohammad...
UN experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to remove Ramy Shaath and Zyad El-Elaimy from their terror list and stop systematically misusing counter-terror powers. Shaath and El-Elaimy were arrested in June 2019 and their names placed on a terror list...
The United Nations' top counter-terrorism official has said that the terror group Daesh must be defeated in cyberspace by countering its ideology online, amid the group's recent efforts to revive itself....
United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Tuesday said the UN is deeply concerned by the situation of nearly 31,000 foreign children detained in Al-Hawl and Rouge refugee camps in...
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UN Five current and former European members of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday said they held the Syrian regime responsible for the Syrian Constitutional Committee's failure to achieve...

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February 11, 2021 |
Arhama Siddiqa On 30 January, Pakistan's Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa paid a two-day visit to Qatar where he met with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad...
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Dr Mustafa Fetouri In an interview with MEMO, Commander of Operation IRINI Rear Admiral Fabio Agostini disputes the criticism that the operation fails to effectively enforce the arms embargo imposed on Libya...
Kuwait has contributed to the medical treatment of 35,000 cancer patients in Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday. "Thanks to the generous support from the state...
United Nations expert said on Wednesday that three human rights defenders imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates are being mistreated in conditions that may amount to torture and called...
The European Union has called upon Israel to stop the demolition of Palestinian residential structures in the occupied Jordan Valley. The call came after Israeli forces destroyed the Palestinian...
A new report by Amnesty International says that health workers, lawyers, journalists and rights activists in several countries including Egypt have failed to get support or funding from British...
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Zimbabwe Yemen's Houthi-supported armed forces stepped up offensives against the last stronghold of pro-government fighters in Marib province on Monday following renewed clashes the day before. A source from the...
Iran has demanded the United Nations recognise the Tehran-backed Houthi government in Yemen in order to end the crisis in the country; Al Jazeera quoted an Iranian official as saying. The...
A European Union delegation currently visiting East Africa visited Ethiopian refugees in Um Rakuba, Sudan, to inspect their living conditions and needs. The officials, headed by Finnish minister of foreign...
Amnesty International yesterday welcomed the International Criminal Court (ICC)'s recent declaration that it has jurisdiction over the occupied Palestinian territories. The organisation's Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East...
Iran on Tuesday summoned Belgium's ambassador in Tehran over the conviction of an Iranian diplomat in a Belgian court on charges of planning to bomb an exiled opposition rally...
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February 9, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi At the rate that it is failing the people of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority will only stop jeopardising their cause when it is declared to be completely obsolete, more...
The UK and the US have been named and "shamed" along with 57 other countries including China and France for not repatriating their citizens – women and children associated...
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