A knifeman has injured four foreign tourists and two other people in an attack in the Jordanian city of Jerash, security sources say. Three Mexicans and a Swiss national were hurt along with a tour guide and a security guard in the popular tourist destination. The suspected attacker was arrested nearby, police say. Jerash, home […]

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a senior official of the advocacy group Human Rights Watch must leave the country within 20 days, invoking a contentious law that bars entry to foreigners who have publicly called for a boycott of Israel or its settlements in the occupied West Bank. The ruling upheld […]

Supreme court rules to expel Omar Shakir over his alleged support for promoting boycotts of Israel. Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to expel a senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) official over his alleged support for promoting boycotts of the country. The unanimous three-judge decision supporting the Israeli government’s move against Omar Shakir, […]

BAGHDAD — It started quietly a month or so ago with scattered protests. Those steadily expanded until last week more than 200,000 Iraqis marched in Baghdad, raging against the Iraqi government and a foreign occupier — not the United States this time, but Iran. While the current leaders of the Iraqi government cower inside the […]

At least three people were reportedly shot dead when protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala on Sunday night. The protesters, who demanded that Iran stop interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs, climbed the consulate’s walls. There were reports that the security forces opened fire, but another account said unknown gunmen […]

American founder of the Free Burma Rangers blame the Free Syrian Army and Turkish troops for deadly shelling. Shelling by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed a medic from Myanmar and wounded another Iraqi member of the humanitarian team on Sunday in northeastern Syria, where fighting between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed gunmen continued, the humanitarian group said. […]

TEL AVIV (DPA) – The man who recorded Mr Yair Netanyahu, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister, making embarrassing comments that caused an uproar in Israel must pay compensation to him as well as apologise. As part of a settlement agreement in Tel Aviv’s Magistrate Court, Mr Roi Rozen agreed to pay Mr Netanyahu […]

WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – The Trump administration is refusing to take in thousands of Iraqis who risked their lives helping US forces during the Iraq War, cutting the number of high-priority refugees allowed into the United States this year and drastically slowing background checks they must undergo. Only 153 Iraqi refugees whose applications were given […]

Hezbollah leader calls for quick formation of new government which, he said, must listen to demands of people. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, has called for the quick formation of a new Lebanese government that must listen to the demands of protesters and work to restore confidence. In a televised speech on Friday, […]

BEIRUT (REUTERS) – A Lebanese court sentenced an Uber driver to death on Friday (Nov 1) for the murder of British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes in December 2017, state news agency NNA said. The driver, Tariq Houshieh, confessed to raping and strangling 30-year-old Dykes, who worked at the embassy in Lebanon for Britain’s Department for […]