Category: 2. Middle East

Human Rights Watch said in a report on Tuesday that the UAE has designated dissidents and their relatives as “terrorists” and called on Abu Dhabi to reverse this decision immediately.

The official Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on 8 January a cabinet decision to add 11 dissidents and their relatives, as well as eight companies, to its “terrorist” list for their alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is classified as a “terrorist…

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday urged Hamas to free all hostages in Gaza, saying their captivity provided Israel with “excuses” to attack the territory, as rescuers recovered charred bodies from an Israeli strike.

At least 18 people were killed across the Gaza Strip by Israeli strikes, while Germany, France and Britain urged Israel to end its blockade on aid entering the besieged territory.

Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18, bringing an end to the…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Wednesday said its crew recovered charred bodies from a school-turned-shelter for displaced people, as Israeli strikes killed 17 people in the Hamas-run territory since dawn.

Germany, France and Britain urged Israel to lift its blockade on humanitarian aid entering the besieged territory, which it imposed on March 2.

Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18, bringing an end to the ceasefire that had largely paused hostilities and resulted in the…

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday urged Hamas to free all hostages, saying their captivity provided Israel with “excuses” to attack Gaza, as rescuers recovered charred bodies from an Israeli strike.

Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people across the besieged territory, while Germany, France and Britain urged Israel to end its blockade on aid entering.

Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18, ending the ceasefire that had largely paused hostilities and resulted…

Two million Palestinians, a majority of whom are women and children, are undergoing collective punishment, the commissioner-general of UNRWA has pointed out.

“Hunger is spreading and deepening, deliberate and manmade,” Philippe Lazzarini told the media on Tuesday. “Humanitarian aid is being used as a bargaining chip and a weapon of war [by Israel in the Gaza Strip].”

Lazzarini insisted that Israel’s “siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the…

Dozens of Tunisian lawyers and legal experts have categorically rejected the hefty sentences handed down to opposition figures in the “conspiracy trial” and called for an end to the exceptional measure imposed by President Kais Saied since mid-2021.

A court in Tunis in the early hours of Saturday handed down jail terms of up to 66 years to around 40 defendants, including vocal critics of Saied.

On Tuesday, over fifty professors in the fields of law and…

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday the arrest of a senior Air Force Intelligence officer involved in committing war crimes against civilians.

“The Latakia Security Directorate arrested the criminal Brigadier General Sultan al-Tinawi, one of key Air Force Intelligence officers involved in committing war crimes against civilians, including a massacre in the Jairud area of ​​the Damascus countryside in July 2016” the ministry said in a…

The Israeli army estimated that it needs an additional 10 billion shekels ($2.7 billion) to resume the war on the besieged Gaza Strip and to expand it with large scale ground operations, Israeli media outlets reported on Tuesday.

The Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said “The renewal of the war in Gaza over a month ago, after the ceasefire, and the plan to expand it …. is incurring significant costs”, adding that the Israeli occupation army is already…

Qatar and Russia have signed an agreement to each invest 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) into a joint investment fund, strengthening the two countries’ bilateral and trade relations.

According to Reuters news agency, Qatar and Russia signed the agreement to jointly invest the amount in each others’ sovereign wealth funds during a meeting in the Russian capital Moscow between president Vladimir Putin and Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Thursday…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to use artificial intelligence (AI) to write and regulate laws in the Gulf state, in the first such decision to be taken by a nation in the international community.

Last week, ministers in the UAE approved the creation of the Office of Regulatory Intelligence, a new cabinet body intended to oversee the use of AI in the creation of new legislation and the reformation of current legislation.

According to state media, Emirati…