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Iraq’s parliament has officially designated Halabja as the country’s 19th province, granting full administrative status to a region long defined by the trauma of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attack in 1988. The vote, passed on Monday with support from 178 lawmakers across political blocs, ends over a decade of political deadlock.

“This is a legal and moral obligation,” said Second Deputy Speaker Shakhawan Abdullah. “The fall of the tyrant began with the…

Israel announced Wednesday it had converted 30 percent of Gaza into a buffer zone as it pressed its unrelenting military offensive, vowing to maintain its blockade on humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also ordered security chiefs and negotiators to keep pressing for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, where Israel resumed air and ground attacks on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire.

The United Nations said an estimated 500,000…

Israel said Wednesday it would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where a relentless military offensive has turned the Palestinian territory into a “mass grave”, a medical charity reported.

Air and ground attacks resumed across the Gaza Strip from March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas that had largely halted hostilities in the territory.

However, Israel has halted the entry of aid into Gaza since March 2, as the humanitarian crisis continues to grow amid ongoing…

The Senegal Alliance for the Palestinian Cause announced yesterday that it will continue organising Senegalese protests this week against the genocidal war waged by Israel for over 560 consecutive days against the indigenous Palestinian people.

This announcement comes as a result of the recent expression of anger in Dakar, as thousands of Senegalese broke their silence, carrying slogans of anger and solidarity with the Palestinian people, and denouncing what they…

Anger has mounted in Tel Aviv as the United States informed Israel of its decision to begin a gradual withdrawal from Syria in the coming period, according to Israeli media reports yesterday.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that American security officials notified the Israeli occupation army that the withdrawal is set to commence within two months.

Israeli officials quoted by the paper said that Tel Aviv is still pressing Washington to delay the…