ANKARA (AA) – An Australian teenager detained at a prison in Syria’s northeastern city of Al-Hasakah has died, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said over the weekend. In a statement, HRW said Yusuf Zahab’s family reported that he was forced as a child to live under Daesh/ISIS before he was detained. The family was informed by […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Resistance group Hamas on Sunday called on the international community to intervene to halt Israeli violations against Palestinians. The call came after a UN report highlighted Israeli violations, settler violence and settlement building in the Palestinian territories. On Friday, the UN Special Committee to Investig...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are facing unforeseen delays in the international justice process for genocide and other gross human rights violations, prolonging the plight of the displaced community living in squalid makeshift tents in Bangladesh. “It’s almost five years since the most inhuman militar...
ANKARA (AA) – Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the US announced Saturday that they would provide $11 billion to address regional and international food security challenges. The US welcomed the “decision by the Arab Coordination Group (ACG), which includes 10 Arab and national specialized financial developmental ins...
BETHLEHEM CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that he is ready to extend his hand to Israel to restart peace negotiations. “The opportunity for a two-state solution on the 1967 borders may only be available today, we don’t know what will happen in the future,” Abbas said in a press conferenc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinians staged a rally in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday to demand justice for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American journalist working for the Doha-based Al Jazeera network, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied [...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina is set to bid farewell on July 20 to 16 more victims of the Prijedor massacre who have recently been identified. The Institute for Missing Persons said the identifications of the 1992 massacre victims are 30 years late. Getting proper identifications involves unearthing bodies from mass grav...
Rabat, Morocco – (AFP) At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely “suffocated”, Morocco’s state-backed CNDH rights group said on Wednesday. The death toll after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier on June 24 was the worst ...
PARIS (AA) – The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commission has called on Spain to ensure that humane border control measures are conducted which do not lead to rights violations after dozens of migrants died last month while trying to scale a border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. In the aftermath […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers chopped down hundreds of olive trees in the occupied West Bank, a local Palestinian official said on Monday. “Settlers destroyed 200 olive trees and 250 fruit trees in the towns of Al-Mughayer and Turmus Aya near Ramallah,” Mohamed Elwan, coordinator of the Palestinian Farmers Association, told the s...
