Category: 2. Middle East

In her home in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, Riham Waqqaf spent the night trying to distract her children from the sound of sectarian clashes that have terrified local residents.

“The gunfire didn’t stop throughout the night and intensified at dawn,” said the 33-year-old humanitarian worker.

She told AFP by telephone on Tuesday that she tried to shield her children, but “turning up the TV volume or giving them my phone to watch video clips… did not help”.

According to the Syrian…

Large-scale protests broke out yesterday as Haredi demonstrators clashed with Occupation forces outside two Israel Defence Forces (IDF) enlistment centres, voicing fierce opposition to the drafting of ultra-Orthodox men into the military’s newly formed Hasmonean Brigade.

According to The Times of Israel, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered outside the Jerusalem recruitment office in the Romema neighbourhood, while a separate group demonstrated at the…

The French Parliament observed a minute of silence, Tuesday, for Aboubakar Cisse, who was fatally stabbed at a mosque last week in the southern Gard region, according to broadcaster, BFMTV.

The tribute was announced earlier by National Assembly President, Yael Braun-Pivet, who described the killing as a “cowardly assassination” that “shocked the nation”, Anadolu Agency reports.

Braun-Pivet said the decision to hold the tribute was made following…

Turkiye and Italy will continue to strengthen cooperation in the defence industry with new projects while also boosting their reciprocal trade, the leaders of the two countries said after holding talks in Rome, Reuters has reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met in the 17th-century Villa Doria Pamphili for an intergovernmental summit which also involved ministers from both countries.

“We will continue to…

Israeli occupation authorities freed a Palestinian emergency responder who went missing in late March when 15 humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza as they were responding to an incident, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said today, according to Reuters.

PRCS staff member Asaad Al-Nsasrah went missing after the 15 paramedics and other rescue workers were shot dead on 23 March in three separate shootings at the same location near the…

French lawyer Rafik Chekkat said today that the charge of “terrorist propaganda” is being used in France to silence those who speak out about crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.

French political scientist Francois Burgat, known for his work on the Arab world, was detained on 9 July 2024, in Aix-en-Provence on charges of “terrorist propaganda.” His arrest followed a complaint by the European Jewish Organisation (OJE) over social media posts he shared in…

The Israeli army released 10 more Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a medical source has told Anadolu. The ten were detained during Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.

The source said that the 10 Palestinians were set free at the Israeli-controlled Kissufim crossing near the city of Deir Al-Balah and transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for medical check-ups. The freed Palestinians are in a “severe” health condition, the source…