Tag: Middle East
several arrests including abroad after a spectacular burglary
Iran experienced its biggest bank robbery on Sunday (June 5th), as thieves emptied 160 safes from a branch of Bank Melli of Iran (BMI), the country’s largest banking institution, in…
court upholds sale of Church real estate to Jewish settlers
It is the end of almost twenty years of legal battle for real estate in Jerusalem. The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled and validated the acquisition, by an organization of…
resolution urges Iran to cooperate with IAEA
According to diplomatic sources, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany filed on the night of Monday June 6 to Tuesday June 7 with the International Atomic Energy…
the truce renewed for two more months
The Houthi government and rebels have agreed to renew the truce that has been running since early April, for another two months. An agreement obtained in extremis, according to the…
In Iraq, 50 jihadists from the IS group repatriated from northeastern Syria
Iraqi authorities have announced that they have repatriated 50 jihadists from the Islamic State group. They were previously held by Kurdish forces in neighboring northeast Syria. Unlike Western countries, Iraq…
United Arab Emirates and Israel sign first free trade agreement
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, May 31. The first of its kind between the Jewish state and an Arab country. Two years…
the far right commemorates the conquest of East Jerusalem in a very tense climate
Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day this Sunday. Thousands of Israelis marched through the streets of the holy city. Called “the march of the flags”, this annual mobilization aims to commemorate the…
military complex targeted by Israeli drone attack according to the “New York Times”
In Parchin, a site of the Iranian Ministry of Defense would have been targeted by an attack? A young engineer was killed last Wednesday in what Tehran calls a ”…
the pound continues to fall, food security threatened
Fluctuations in the Lebanese pound and rises in the prices of basic necessities threaten the food security of the Lebanese, more than 80% of whom live below the poverty line.…
Iran seizes two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s elite army, announced on Friday that it had seized two Greek oil tankers, shortly after protesting Greece’s seizure of a ship carrying Iranian oil. With our…