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Kurdish authorities reject Amnesty torture accusations
Kurdish authorities governing Syrian prisons holding former ISIS fighters and their families rejected accusations of torture made by Amnesty International...
Year: 2024
Mauritania conducts military drills amid rising Mali tensions
Mauritania’s army has conducted a series of military drills on its 2,260km (1,404-mile) south-eastern border with Mali amid rising tensions...
Egypt cracks down on pro-Palestine supporters
Egypt cracks down on pro-Palestine supporters as nearly 120 Egyptians have been charged with acts of solidarity with the exclave...
Morocco: Jazz Festival sweeps Tangiers
Tangiers – a city historically renowned for inspiring American jazz musicians – hosted UNESCO’s International Jazz Day for the first...
Egypt: Gaza peace talks at standstill
Hamas leaders are on day two of truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with no successful progress as the...
Israel moves forward with shutting down Al Jazeera operations
Al Jazeera cited “criminal action” on May 5th when referring to a recent move by the Israeli government to shut...
Israel counter-attacks Hamas with airstrike in Rafah
Israel fires airstrike against Rafah to counter-attack Hamas, according to Arab News and agencies on May 6th . On May...
Netanyahu’s cabinet bans Al Jazeera
Israel’s war in Gaza escalates Netanyahu’s war on journalists and free speech after his government unanimously voted to close all...
Naguib Mahfouz’s enduring cultural legacy
Nobel-laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt’s national treasure, is the central focus of Abu Dhabi’s International Book Fair, as reported by The...
France’s peace plan between Israel and Lebanon on the horizon
Amid French involvement in a peace-plan between Israel and Lebanon, there has been a small respite in violence along the...
Tunisia: political opposition gives election ultimatum
Tunisia’s opposition continues to rage against the president’s authoritarian regime as the calendar creeps towards the presidential elections. Opposition coalition,...
France condemns Red Cross attack in war-torn Sudan
France condemned “in the strongest terms” an attack on the Red Cross in war-torn Sudan that killed two members of...
Ian Proud: UK sanctions on Russia are futile at best
Dame Harriet Baldwin, the Chair of the UK Parliament’s Treasury select committee rightly recognises that UK sanctions are not working....
The endangered craft of a renowned Jordanian calligrapher
Renowned Jordanian calligrapher Ryad Tabbal, whose creations have played an important role in Jordan’s contemporary culture, is credited in producing...
US pledges to improve Jordan’s air defence capabilities
The Pentagon said on May 2nd that a meeting of the US-Jordan Joint Military Commission (JMC) discussed “destabilizing impacts” of...
