Palestinian prisoners demand to be treated with dignity
DAOUD KUTTAB August 29, 2022 Short Url The images of Khalil Awawdeh released last week were jarring. After 178 days of abstaining from food, the body of this protesting Palestinian […]
Iraq on verge of civil war: protestors killed as Sadr quits politics
UPDATE Iraq’s powerful Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation from politics permanently. (File/AFP) Short Url Updated 13 sec ago ARAB NEWS August 29, 2022 Witnesses said earlier that Sadr […]
After Intolerance Comes Peace
28 August 2022 By: Eka Rizkia Larasati The declaration of 2022 as the year of tolerance by the Ministry of Religion is a breath of fresh air for the Indonesian […]
Evidence-gathering boosts justice chances for Myanmar’s Rohingya
Five years after the Myanmar army crackdown that drove one million Rohingya refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh, they have not been able to return home and have not seen justice. But […]
The (long) wait continues for the UN’s human rights report on Xinjiang
International Geneva Over a year ago the United Nations Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet promised a report on the treatment of China’s Uyghur minority. As she is about to leave […]
Flood fate of thousands lies with colonial-era Pakistan barrage
By AFP – Aug 29,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced people take refuge along a highway after fleeing from their flood hit homes following heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday (AFP photo) SUKKUR, Pakistan — The fate of hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province […]
Pakistan flood victims throw note pleading for help
By Farhat JavedBBC Urdu, Manoor valley Hundreds of people are stranded across the river in the Manoor valley of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a flash flood hit the region […]
Pakistan floods: A thousand dead, millions affected by ‘horrors of climate change’
COMMENTS By Euronews with AP • Updated: 28/08/2022 – 20:47 A family sits near their tent surrounded by water, in Sohbat Pur city of Jaffarabad, Sunday 24 August 2022 – Copyright AP Photo/Zahid Hussain Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan […]
Afghanistan, the US and Taliban: A story of injustice, terror and vested interests
26th August 2022 Ata-ul-Haye Nasir, Al Hakam 9/11 and its background 11 September 2001, a day that brought a drastic change on the world stage, as it shook the world in […]
Iraq gets deeper and deeper into a political quagmire
HAFED AL-GHWELL August 27, 2022 Short Url Ten months ago, Iraq was on the verge of pulling off a remarkable, albeit improbable, feat after the conclusion of national parliamentary elections. […]
Salman Rushdie attack ‘unacceptable’ to Islam, says MWL chief Al-Issa
Updated 21 August 2022 BY FRANCESCO BONGARRÀ Al-Issa was speaking at the 43rd “Meeting of Friendship Between People” in Rimini, Italy In an interview with Arab News on the side […]
Did the Afghan failure lead to the Ukraine war?
Aug 27,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM — Why did the West’s Afghanistan policy fail so spectacularly? Was it doomed from the very beginning, and have any lessons been learned? More to the point, did the end of one 20-year war pave the way for another? One year […]
Quakers call for Afghan resettlement scheme to be overhauled
One year after Kabul fell to the Taliban, Quakers in Britain have joined calls on the UK Government to fix the broken Afghan resettlement scheme. Despite promising “one of the […]
Muslim World Asked to Voice for Afghan Women’s Rights
Saturday 27 Aug 2022 05:00 WIB Rep: Umar Mukhtar/ Red: Agung Sasongko X Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, […]
Brunei Imam Asks Muslims not to Disgrace People
Saturday 27 Aug 2022 Rep: Ratna Ajeng Tejomukti/ Red: Ani Nursalikah Friday prayer worshipers at Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque in Brunei Darussalam are inspected before entering the mosque, Friday […]
Turkey striking a delicate balance between Palestine and Israel
SINEM CENGIZ August 26, 2022 Short Url In recent months Turkey has managed to strike a balance between several conflicting actors, such as Russia and Ukraine, Iran and the US, […]
Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’
By Rajini VaidyanathanBBC South Asia Correspondent In her four fragile years, Yasmin has lived a life of uncertainty, unsure where she belongs. Born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, she […]
Syria, the forgotten crisis?
Mid-August, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that it faced a record funding gap for its emergency response budget in 2022. Last December, OCHA appealed […]
Evidence-gathering boosts justice chances for Myanmar’s Rohingya
Five years after the Myanmar army crackdown that drove one million Rohingya refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh, they have not been able to return home and have not seen justice. But […]
84% of Lebanese families lack money for basics, UN report reveals
SPECIAL A child peeks from behind the corner of a building in Beirut’s Karantina district, Lebanon, Nov. 22, 2021. (Reuters) Short Url Updated 25 August 2022 NAJIA HOUSSARI August 25, […]