For months, employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have made weekly visits to a detention camp in northern Syria bearing a photograph of a petite woman in her early 60s. They show the image to camp officials, comparing it with pictures of tens of thousands of other people in the camp’s database. […]

Turkish president’s comments follow condemnation of Israeli army’s killing of 17 Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his comments targeting Turkey’s ongoing military operation in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin. His remarks on Sunday came in response to Netanyahu’s earlier comments rejecting Ankara’s […]

Non-violent protest tactics employed the demonstrators in Gaza are reminding many of the first Intifada in the late 1980s. In Gaza, Palestinian demonstrators did what they could to frustrate Israeli security forces by burning tyres to obscure the view of soldiers and using mirrors in an attempt to blind snipers. Tactics that reminded many of […]

Following talks in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian and Iranian counterparts issued a joint statement saying they were committed to achieving a ‘lasting ceasefire’ in Syria. Turkey, Russia and Iran have said they were committed to achieving a “lasting ceasefire” in Syria, in a joint statement issued following a summit in […]

Concern over rising debt as country seeks $16bn in loans and grants at Paris conference to kick-start economy. Beirut, Lebanon – Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s prime minister, has travelled to Paris to seek billions of dollars in loans at a major investment summit due to take place in France, hoping to drum up international support to kick-start its […]

Officials announce agreement over the establishment of up to 40 theatres over the next five years, state media reports. Saudi Arabia’s first cinema in decades will open in the capital later this month, officials have said, while also announcing an agreement over the opening of dozens of theatres by 2023. Saudi state media said on […]

The police killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, an aspiring Pashtun model, has generated demonstrations in Peshawar from the Pashtun community, who say they are targeted by the police and army. Thousands of people from Pakistan’s Pashtun community are attending a rally in Peshawar to demand rights and protection. The so-called “Pashtun Protection Movement” says the security […]

CAIRO — Sudan’s new ruling military council announced on Sunday that it would name a civilian prime minister and cabinet, but not a president, to help govern the country after the coup that removed the longtime leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir. An army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Shamseldin Kibashi, also said in televised remarks that the military […]

Shamima Begum was a member of the Isis morality police, a feared group which enforced the terror organisation’s strict interpretation of Islamic law, according to reports. The 19-year-old British citizen, who fled her home in Bethnal Green four years ago with two other schoolgirls, has claimed that she was only a “housewife” during her time […]

Watchdog alleges that burglars broke into house of editor of critical report on state of human rights in Pakistan. Activists have raised concern over the security of rights workers in Pakistan following a “burglary-style raid” on the house of the editor of an annual report on the country’s state of human rights. The Human Rights Commission […]