Regional and international efforts to revive the UN-sponsored truce in Yemen have not paid off. Since the ceasefire broke down on the 2nd of October, the attitudes of the warring sides have been discouraging, and their actions are leading the country t…
Divisions dominate ‘reunion’ Arab Summit in Algeria
Regional tensions and crises underpinned the first day of the Arab summit, as Algeria, the host country, attempts to unite the twenty-two members of the league under the summit’s slogan, “reunion.” “The regional and international contexts (are) marked …
Israeli troops kill Palestinian who rammed car into soldier
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man on Wednesday after a suspected car-ramming attack at a checkpoint west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank that left a soldier severely injured, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The Israeli military s…
Most murders of journalists go unpunished: UNESCO
An overwhelming majority of killings of journalists across the world go unpunished, a United Nations agency reported on Wednesday. “Impunity for killings of journalists remains unacceptably high at 86 percent,” said UNESCO, the United Nations cultural …
US woman who led female IS battalion gets 20 years in prison
An American woman who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, leading an all-female military battalion, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court Tuesday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who grew up as a Christian on a farm in Kansas…
Netanyahu poised for comeback in Israeli election
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears well placed to return to power after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed his right-wing Israeli nationalist bloc heading for a narrow majority, lifted by a strong showing from his alli…
A populist’s memoirs: Will Netanyahu be Israel’s Bolsonaro?
As Israel and the world await the outcome of Israel’s election in the coming hours, the main question the result will answer is whether former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s populist comeback pitch has succeeded. Or whether he will meet the fate o…
Egypt arrest dozens over protest calls ahead of COP27
Egyptian security forces have arrested nearly 70 people in connection with calls for protests to coincide with the COP27 climate summit, a rights group said. They also briefly detained an Indian activist after he set off on a protest march from Cairo. …
Syria: Child among 3 killed in attacks, fighting in Daraa
An 11-year-old child was among three people killed in fighting in Syria’s southern province of Daraa. The boy’s death came as local groups previously part of the opposition’s Free Syrian Army, as well as the Assad regime’s Eighth Brigade forces fought …
Libya aims to nearly double oil output by 2027
Libya is aiming to nearly double its oil output to two million barrels per day by 2027, the head of its National Oil Company has said. “We’re working on raising production to two million barrels per day in the next three to five years,” Farhat Bengdara…