Military activities reported near Gaza
Israeli forces carried out small operations in or near Gaza on Thursday morning, with officials on both sides giving conflicting accounts of events. According to Palestinian officials, Israeli forces crossed into the town of Beit Lahiya, detaining at least a dozen Palestinians and injuring one. An Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed military activity More...
Syria losing information war, says Assad
Syria is losing the information war against the West, President Bashar al-Assad has admitted, as violence continued across the country. “They outplayed us… at the very beginning of the crisis – More...
New Palestinian cabinet sworn in
Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has sworn in a new cabinet in the West Bank. Salam Fayyad, who is popular with the West, was retained as prime minister but had to relinquish his influential More...
Iranian rapper faces death threats, bounty over song
An Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany, told the German website More...
Girl, 2 others killed by regime’s attack on refugee camp
Syrians seeking cover at a camp for displaced residents came under attack Wednesday by government forces, an opposition group said, unable to escape the violence that has tormented the country for 14 months. Three More...
Notorious prison still exists in Iraq
Baghdad - A notorious prison in Baghdad’s Green Zone is still open despite the Iraqi government having said more than a year ago it was closed, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The report about the Camp More...
7 Iraqi army soldiers killed in suicide bombing
A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army base in western Mosul on Tuesday, killing seven Iraqi soldiers and wounding 20 people, an official said. In a separate incident, a member of the Mosul city council was assassinated More...
‘Progress’ at Iran nuclear talks
Iran says progress has been made at its latest talks with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. Iran’s top nuclear envoy, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said the two days of discussions had been “fruitful”. An More...