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Palestinians hurt in West Bank settler clashes: medics
At least five Palestinians were wounded on Saturday after residents of a hardline Israeli settlement attacked villages in the occupied West Bank south of Nablus, medical sources said. The army confirmed the clashes and said when soldiers arrived to separate the two sides they were attacked by Palestinians and used anti-riot measures to disperse them. Four.. More -
Human Rights Watch calls for end to Egypt military aid
Human Rights Watch has appealed to the US and other countries to halt all military aid to Egypt after a video of security forces apparently carrying out summary executions surfaced. HRW said the Egyptian soldiers executed at least two people and as many as eight unarmed detainees in the country's Sinai region. The group also said the soldiers appeared.. More -
Rex Tillerson accuses Iran of 'alarming provocations'
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" to destabilize countries in the Middle East as the Trump administration launched a review of its policy towards Tehran. Tillerson told reporters the review, which he announced on Tuesday, would not only look at Tehran's compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal.. More -
Dozens killed in separate air raids across Syria
Dozens of civilians have been killed in separate air raids across Syria over the past 24 hours, blamed by rescue workers and a monitor on Russian, US-led coalition and Syrian regime fighter jets. At least 10 people, including nine children, were killed on Tuesday in suspected Russian air raids on Maaret Harmeh village in Idlib province, an official.. More -
Turkey to extend state of emergency by three months
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Monday said the National Security Council had recommended extending the state of emergency, set to expire on April 19, "to provide the continuance of measures aimed at securing the rights and freedoms of citizens." Parliament is to meet on Tuesday to vote on the recommendation. It will be the third.. More -
British prime minister calls for snap election
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a snap general election to be held on June 8, 2017. May made the surprise announcement on Tuesday in front of 10 Downing Street. "I have concluded that the only way to guarantee certainty and stability for the years ahead is to hold this election," she said. May added that Britain needed.. More -
'Deadly US air strike in Syria hit peaceful mosque'
US forces failed to take necessary precautions before launching a lethal drone strike in northern Syria last month that hit a mosque full of worshipers, three separate investigations have revealed. Research by Human Rights Watch (HRW), London-based Forensic Architecture and open-source investigative unit Bellingcat reveal that US air strikes hit a.. More -
Palestinian prisoners launch mass hunger strike
Some 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel launched a mass hunger strike on Monday to press for basic rights and shed light on the difficult humanitarian conditions inside Israeli prisons. The open-ended hunger strike, one of the largest in recent years, coincides with Palestinian Prisoners Day, annually commemorated on April 17. Led.. More -
Gaza's only power plant runs out of fuel
The Gaza Strip's only functioning power plant has shut down after running out of fuel, leaving two million people in the Palestinian territory with only six hours of electricity a day. Samir Metir, head of Gaza's electricity provider, told AFP news agency that all the plant's fuel, purchased with funding from Qatar and Turkey, had been used up. He.. More -
Kashmir: India forces seek to quash rights abuse videos
Indian authorities in Jammu and Kashmir are scrambling to quash a rash of viral videos of alleged human rights abuses, blaming them for fueling the violence in the Indian-held part of the disputed Kashmir region. Indian Army chief Gen. Bipin Rawat late Saturday met with Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir’s chief minister, reportedly to discuss.. More -
Turkish referendum ends in victory for Yes
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the "Yes" vote in the referendum to amend Turkey's constitution and grant the country's presidential office new executive powers. "We have been attacked by other nations of the world. You have seen how the West attacked us," Erdogan told cheering supporters in Istanbul on Sunday. "We.. More -
Thousands of Syrians face eviction from Lebanon camps
Thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley face displacement as a deadline to evacuate their informal tent camps expired on Saturday. Camp residents within a seven-kilometer radius of the Rayak airbase were given five days to remove their homes following an eviction order delivered orally earlier this week by the army. The move, reportedly.. More -
Turkey votes in key constitutional referendum
Turkish citizens have begun voting in a key referendum on whether to adopt a presidential system with extended executive powers. The constitutional changes proposed in Sunday's vote seek to transform Turkey's governance from a parliamentary system to an executive presidency, significantly expanding the powers of the top office. People started casting.. More -
Houthi court sentences Yemeni journalist to death
A Yemeni journalist has been sentenced to death by a Houthi court, which accused him of “collaborating with enemy states”, activists have said. Yahya Abduraqeeb al-Jubaihi was kidnapped by Yemen's Houthi rebels from his home in September 2016 and was forcibly disappeared. This is the first time a journalist has been sentenced to death.. More -
Russia slammed for vetoing yet another Syria resolution
Western powers have lashed out at Russia after it vetoed a United Nations resolution that would have condemned the suspected use of chemical weapons in northern Syria and demanded a speedy investigation. The vote on the Security Council resolution drafted by Britain, France and the United States was 10 in favor, Russia and Bolivia against, and China,.. More
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