Israeli use of excessive force unlikely to decline in months ahead, a Ramallah-based rights organisation says. At least six people have been killed in the occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of the year 2018, according to a rights organisation. On Tuesday, 16-year-old Laith Abu Naim succumbed to his wounds hours after being shot by […]

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s centre-left opposition dramatically split on Tuesday (Jan 1) ahead of an April 9 election, with leader Avi Gabbay announcing he would no longer partner with veteran politician Tzipi Livni as she sat stone-faced next to him. The announcement means the end of their Zionist Union alliance, which secured the second most […]

UN panel found that a night market and five residential buildings were among the targets of the Saudi-led coalition. A UN report on human rights abuses related to foreign intervention in Yemen details the extensive civilian casualties inflicted by the Saudi-led coalition’s air attacks.  The United Nations panel examined 10 air attacks in 2017 that […]

Khamenei accuses Riyadh of betrayal by aligning with Washington despite its recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital. Iran’s supreme leader has said Saudi Arabia’s alignment with the United States and Israel is “certainly a betrayal” of the Muslims. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remark at a conference attended by parliamentary representatives from Islamic countries on […]

Two Shia Muslims sentenced to death and 56 others jailed on charges of ‘terrorism’, prosecutors say. A Bahraini court has sentenced two Shia Muslims to death and jailed 56 others on charges of “terrorism”, prosecutors in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom have said. The supreme criminal court also stripped 47 of the defendants of their Bahraini citizenship […]

Fearing the formation of a Kurdish corridor along its border, Ankara mobilises fighters to push out Kurds from Afrin. Turkey has mobilised thousands of Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels to a border province with Syria, as part of a planned offensive against Kurdish fighters, according to Turkish media. Anadolu news agency reported that the Ankara-backed […]

Cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by Israel’s separation wall, the densely populated area suffers from severe neglect. Kufr Aqab, occupied East Jerusalem – Construction never ends in Kufr Aqab. Cranes and bulldozers are perpetually growling, sifting through concrete and dirt to make room for thousands of Palestinians moving into this densely populated Jerusalem […]

Foreign Minister Cavusoglu warns US counterpart Tillerson over moves to form a 30,000-strong army in the north of Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said relations between Turkey and the United States would be “irreversibly harmed” if Washington moves to form a 30,000-strong army in the north of Syria. According to media reports, Washington is […]

Although declared a de-escalation zone last year, there has been no let-up in fighting in rebel-held western province. Beirut, Lebanon – Nahar al-Raheel has been through this before. The Syrian man has been displaced for the past seven years, “running from one place to the other”. “If God doesn’t help us, no one can,” he says […]

Parents of teenager shot dead by Israeli soldier four years ago continue to wait for sentencing while killer walks free. Ramallah, West Bank – Nearly four years after Nadeem Nawarah, 17, was killed by a single live round fired into his chest by an Israeli police officer, his family is still relentlessly pursuing justice. At […]