US, EU to impose fresh sanctions on Iran following recent missile attack on Israel
The United States announced Tuesday that it was preparing new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program after last weekend’s...Geostrategy
Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers kill two in West Bank
The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has seen a surge in violence since early last year, particularly...Geostrategy
Israel lawmakers pass legislation for return of Netanyahu as PM
Jerusalem, Undefined - Israel's parliament on Tuesday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu...Netanyahu will present what analysts have said will be the most right-wing government in Israel's history to parliament on Thursday.
lawmakers passed legislation that now allows anyone convicted of offences but not given a custodial sentence to serve as a minister.
UN asks Taliban to end anti-women policies in Afghanistan
"No country can develop -- indeed survive -- socially and economically with half its population excluded," Volker Turk, the United..."No country can develop -- indeed survive -- socially and economically with half its population excluded," Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
"The ban will significantly impair, if not destroy" these NGOs' capacity to deliver essential services, Turk said, calling it all the more distressing with Afghanistan in the grip.
Pro-Haftar pilot released in Libya prisoner swap
Tripoli, Libya--Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with rival eastern forces, releasing a pilot captured during strongman Khalifa...Pilot Amer al-Orfi al-Gajam was exchanged for 15 prisoners held by Haftar's forces, which back a rival government and control much of eastern and southern Libya
In 2019, Haftar seized large parts of the south and launched an assault on Tripoli
Iran reroutes flight, orders football player’s family off
Iranian football legend Ali Daei, who has supported protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death, said that an airplane from...Daei said his wife and daughter had flown on a Mahan Air flight, taking off from the capital Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport, headed to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
He used social media to call on the government to "solve the problems of the Iranian people rather than using repression, violence and arrests"
Six pro-Turkish fighters killed in Syria clashes
BEIRUT, LEBANON - Six Syrian fighters from a pro-Turkish group died in clashes with regime troops that still raged Monday in...A pro-Turkey rebel statement said the six were killed and three more wounded in the offensive launched by government forces.
The dead were fighters from Faylaq al-Sham, an alliance of rebel groups considered close to the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ukraine to call for Russia’s removal from UN Security Council
Kuleba said the question of Russia's veto-wielding permanent seat in the UN Security Council -- also held by the United...Security Council consists of 15 members tasked with tackling global crises by enacting sanctions, authorizing military action, and approving changes to the UN charter
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Western powers have pored through UN procedural rules to ensure Russia not block Security Council meetings
Influential Israeli Zionist rabbi Haim Druckman dies at 90
Rabbi Haim Druckman was a student of Zvi Yehuda Kook, whose movement founded settlements after Israel occupied the West Bank...Druckman was a mentor to Israeli politician Bezalel Smotrich, who is set to be finance minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's new government
Born in what was then Poland in 1932, Druckman escaped deportation during World War II and in 1944 migrated to Palestine, which was under British mandate
Syrian Kurds protest against Paris attack
A gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural center and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three Kurds....A gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural center and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three Kurds
Furious Kurdish demonstrators clashed with French police after the attack, which revived the trauma of three unresolved murders of Kurds 10 years ago
Tunisia rights group condemns ‘inhumane’ move to deport migrants
Tunis, Tunisia-- A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants who...According to a government statement, the Tunisian cabinet approved on Friday the expulsion "as soon as possible of a group of migrants residing illegally in Tunisia"
The UN refugee agency UNHCR opened the Choucha camp in early 2011 to shelter those fleeing conflict amid the fall of Libya's former dictator Moamer Kadhafi
Iran general says Western claims prove ‘effectiveness’ of its drones
After repeated denials about its drones being used by Russia against Ukraine in the conflict, Iran's top general has said...Western nations have sanctioned a number of Iranian firms and military generals, including the chief of the staff of Iran's armed forces
Iran started developing drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in the 1980s during its eight-year war with neighbouring Iraq
