AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II met with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in the capital Amman on Wednesday. The meeting was the first between the Jordanian monarch and Lapid since the latter assumed his post last month. Talks between the two sides focused on the stalled peace process between Israel and the […]
Mosul, Iraq – (AFP): Rockets hit the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Iraq’s main northern city of Mosul causing damage. However, no casualties have been reported. The overnight fire came after deadly shelling allegedly by the Turkish army which killed nine civilians last week, prompting anti-Turkish protests in cities across I...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Lebanon’s parliament has approved a $150 million World Bank loan to import wheat, as shortages of subsidised bread intensify in the cash-strapped country. Long lines have formed in front of bakeries and supermarkets where people wait hours for a bag of subsidised Arabic bread — in short supply as a lo...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port are at risk of collapsing after a fire this month, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has revealed a week before the explosion’s second anniversary. “The northern group of silos are now in danger of falling,” Najib Mikati announced in a statemen...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest over a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates ...
Lake Dukan, Iraq – (AFP): Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan seeking to irrigate crops face seeing their economic lifeline slip away as the waters of Lake Dukan recede and dams upstream in Iran stem the flow. The large artificial lake was created in the 1950s following construction of the Dukan dam, to supply irrigation and drinking […]
SALFIT, Palestine (AA) – Five Palestinians were injured while protesting against the Israeli army’s recent demolition of the homes of two Palestinian prisoners in West Bank. The Palestinian prisoners, Youssef Assi and Yahya Marei, were accused by Israeli authorities of killing a security guard in the Ariel settlement on April 29. Their h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has revealed that Russian batteries were fired at Israeli warplanes during an airstrike in Syria in May. Gantz told reporters at a conference organized by Israeli Channel 13 that a Russian S-300 battery fired at Israeli warplanes in Syria for the first time. He described it as [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – If the status quo in Palestine remains and prospects for a two-state solution are not revived, the Palestinian people will face a future of “fear, harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest and detention, injury and death,” Ramallah’s UN envoy has warned. Peace talks aimed at brokering a negotiated set...
Manbij, Syria – (AFP) Ghazwan al-Atman thought he had found refuge in Manbij after years of displacement, but he now fears his family will be uprooted once again as a threatened Turkish onslaught looms over the Syrian town. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has repeatedly vowed to launch a new offensive in northern Syria […...
