Hundreds of angry men protested after Friday prayers in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province, online videos showed, six weeks after rights groups say dozens were killed during a crackdown in the region. Security forces shot dead more than 90 people at pr…
Killing of US aid worker in Iraq was ‘preplanned’
The killing of US national Stephen Edward Troell in Baghdad on Monday was “pre-planned”, three Iraqi security sources told The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The sources said the killers were intending to abduct him but kill…
‘An insult’: Azerbaijan memorial in Lebanon angers Armenians
A memorial for Azerbaijani victims of a recent war with Armenia in northern Lebanon has sparked outrage among the country’s large Armenian community. The “martyrs of the Republic of Azerbaijan” memorial in the village of Kouachra in the Akkar province …
Russia says completed retreat in Ukraine’s Kherson region
Russia said Friday it had finished pulling back its troops from Kherson in southern Ukraine, abandoning the only regional capital its forces had captured in nearly nine months of fighting. The Kremlin meanwhile insisted that the city was still part of …
Israel’s Netanyahu to receive mandate to form government
Right-wing former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will receive an official mandate Sunday to form a government that could be the most extreme in the country’s history, sparking concern at home and abroad. After a period of unprecedented polit…
Syrian composer Malek Jandali brings musical magic to Qatar
Malek Jandali believes that the Arab world deserves symphonies. These elaborate compositions are not historically part of the Arab musical tradition, but for the German-born Syrian-American composer, his latest work is an attempt to show the rest of th…
Israel detects cholera in northern reservoir
Israel has detected cholera in a reservoir in the north of the country, likely the result of an outbreak in neighbouring Syria spreading, the health ministry said on Friday. The bacteria’s detection does not pose a danger to the public at this point, t…
Fatah commemorates Arafat’s death in Hamas-ruled Gaza
Thousands of gathered in theGaza Strip on Thursday to commemorate 18 years since the passing of Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat. The commemoration in the Hamas-ruled besieged Palestinian enclave was organised by the Fatah Movement which Araf…
Ben-Gvir heckled after disavowing Palestinian expulsion
Israeli far-right leader Itamar Ben-Gvir, a likely senior partner in the next coalition government, was booed on Thursday at a memorial service for Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of a Jewish supremacist militant group, when he disavowed calls for mass …
At least 13 detained in West Bank, Gaza by Israeli forces
At least 13 Palestinians were arrested Thursday evening by Israeli forces at checkpoints at the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local media. Quoting local security sources, the Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli poli…