Owais al-Rawi was shot in the head as he confronted a police officer who slapped his father during a home raid The Egyptian city of Luxor has turned into a militarized area, with heavily armored [ More … ]
SAUDI ARABIA’S crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is brazenly seeking to lie his way out of accountability for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration is helping him do so, says [ More … ]
Speaking before tens of thousands of people at the iconic July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the failed military coup attempt in which 249 people died resisting, President Recep Tayyip [ More … ]
The International Crisis Group has found that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has alienated key support by using sectarian prehistoric in its strategy in Syria. Hezbollah risks alienating supporters over its current strategy in Syria, a report by [ More … ]
A Palestinian lawyer signed a plea deal earlier this week in order to avoid a prison sentence for his alleged involvement with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as his organization called [ More … ]
BY: Özlem Albayrak* The protests against Donald Trump in the U.S. are still going on even days after he took office. Yes, it was a first in the political history of the U.S. that a politician, [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi claimed in a televised speech that Egyptian military’s economic activities are equivalent to just 1 to 1.5 % of Egypt’s GDP and not more than 20 % as some have claimed, as [ More … ]
– Iraqi parliamentarians earlier this week described Turkish troops deployed in Iraq’s Nineveh province as ‘occupiers’ – Kurdish and Turkmen members of northern Iraq’s Kurdish parliament have described the Iraqi parliament’s characterization of Turkish troops [ More … ]
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has called on the Muslim nation to pool their efforts and close ranks to defend Jerusalem and support the Palestinian struggle for its liberation from the occupation, according [ More … ]
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