GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian medic warned Sunday of an “environmental catastrophe” in northern Gaza as corpses piled up across the area amid a deadly Israeli offensive. “There are large numbers of dead bodies in the streets that can’t be reached,” Mohammad Abu Afsh, the head of Gaza-based Medical Relief Organization, an NGO, said ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem says the Syrian people have the right to choose their government and constitution. Qassem said in a televised speech that “the regime in Syria has fallen at the hands of new forces that we cannot judge until they stabilize, take clear positions, and establish order.” “We h...
CAIRO (AA) – The Arab Parliament Saturday demanded international action to end Israel’s grab of Syrian territories. During a speech while presiding over a parliamentary session at the headquarters of the Arab League’s General Secretariat in Cairo, Muhammad Al-Yamahi, the president of the Arab Parliament, urged all Syrian parties to...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has strongly condemned the GOP’s decision to appoint Rep. Brian Mast as the next chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. CAIR labeled Mast as “genocidal and anti-Palestinian” due to past controversial remarks. Mast faced criticism last year for a speech likening Palestinian civ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Thousands of Moroccans staged solidarity protests in support of Gaza which has been enduring genocide and ethnic cleansing by Israel for over a year. The demonstrations, organized by the Moroccan Commission for Advocating the Nation’s Causes, a non-governmental group, were held after Friday prayers in multiple...
Hundreds of Syrians took part in the funeral procession of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada, whose body was found in Sednaya prison. The prison is known as a torture center of the ousted Assad regime. Hamada, a prominent activist during the Syrian revolution, was re-arrested after speaking to international investigators about the torture he end...
At least 40 Palestinians were killed and 98 injured on Friday as Israeli airstrikes continued to target Gaza. A strike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood near Gaza City killed two people and injured several others, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. In central Gaza, 15 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home […]
ANKARA (AA) – Following the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, families who identified their loved ones in photographs taken by a whistleblower codenamed “Caesar” showing victims tortured to death by the regime hope that legal proceedings will ensure justice for the perpetrators. With the collapse of the tyrannical Ba’ath regi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Fadl Abdulghani, the director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), says the organization has documented over 6,000 regime officers involved in war crimes under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. In an interview, Abdulghani called for the prosecution of all those involved, urging Syria’s new government to swiftly establis...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency David Barnea held talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha to discuss a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap deal, Israeli media reported. Israeli news portal Walla said Barnea’s visit to Qatar was part of efforts to reach a deal with […]...
