Tag: Middle East
Turkish President in the United Arab Emirates to consecrate the warming between the two countries
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting the United Arab Emirates this Monday, February 14. The two countries, cold for years, want to strengthen their exchanges. Turkey is going through a major…
Lebanon returns over 330 antiquities to Baghdad
These pieces are said to have been looted during the years of war in Iraq. They were finally spotted in a private Lebanese museum after it opened in 2018, then…
a year after his assassination, Lokman Slim’s killers are still on the run
On February 4, 2021, Lebanon lost one of its greatest intellectuals: Lokman Slim, 58, was found dead in the early morning, shot dead in his car. This director, publisher and…
Yemen rebels fire missiles at UAE and Saudi who retaliate
New outbreak of fever in recent hours between the Houthi rebels in Yemen and several Gulf countries. Ballistic missiles have been fired at the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia,…
Mikati government meets for the first time in three months
In Lebanon, the Council of Ministers is meeting on the morning of Monday January 24 after more than three months of blockage due to political differences concerning the investigation into…
In the occupied West Bank, Jewish settlers attack Palestinians and Israeli left-wing activists
New attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank occurred on Friday January 21 in Burin, near Nablus. Jewish settlers, masked, attacked Palestinians and a group of left-wing Israeli activists,…
coalition strike causes nationwide internet blackout
The Saudi-led coalition bombed Hodeidah, a town in western Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, on the night of Thursday January 20 to Friday January 21, destroying a telecommunications center and…
Sheikh Jarrah’s Salhiya family in East Jerusalem expelled
In Jerusalem, at dawn on Wednesday January 19, the Israeli police took everyone by surprise and evicted a Palestinian family from the ultra-sensitive neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The Salhiya family…
In East Jerusalem, mobilization against a new eviction in Sheikh Jarrah
Tension rose a notch on Monday in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the city annexed by the Jewish state. The Israeli municipality and police attempted to evict a Palestinian…
aid workers in al-Hol camp under threat from the IS group
An official of the Kurdish autonomous administration which manages the al-Hol camp, in northeastern Syria, sounded the alarm on Sunday in a statement to AFP: a ” unprecedented threat against…