Source: Los Angeles Times By Joshua Mitnick For nearly three decades, governments around the world have insisted that the best way to end the most intractable conflict in the Middle […]
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER JERUSALEM — The two front-page headlines told very different stories about Secretary of State John Kerry’s lengthy address about Middle East peace. […]
Source: Aljazeera The Syrian government and rebel groups have agreed a nationwide ceasefire from midnight (22:00 GMT) on Thursday. The deal was announced by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and confirmed […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — In a last-chance effort to shape the outlines of a Middle East peace deal, Secretary of State John Kerry […]
Source: Aljazeera BY Osama Bin Javaid Syrian refugee students now have the option to pursue their studies in Arabic while living in Turkey and resume classes from where they left […]
Source: Time By Suleiman Al-Khalidi / Reuters AMMAN (Reuters) – Christians in Aleppo celebrated under a giant Christmas tree lit up for the first time in five years, hailing what many […]
Source: Time BY Josef Federman / AP Israel has been at odds with outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama over its settlements in occupied territory. JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government’s furious […]
US abstains as Security Council passes resolution condemning Israeli settlements By AFP – Dec 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel scrambled Saturday to contain the fallout from a […]
Source: BBC The UN Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it, instead abstaining. The motion was passed […]
Riyadh: A senior Saudi cleric and a health ministry official said women should be allowed to work as paramedics and opticians, Saudi newspapers reported on Monday, part of a push to relax strict labour codes in the country. Source: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/more-professions-should-be-open-to-women-saudi-cleric-1.1948652
Source : BBC By Emma Jane Kirby BBC News, Istanbul As horrifying war reports are beamed out of Syria, a tiny radio station sends broadcasts in the other direction from […]
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises. Though enough voters appear to have liked what they heard to make Trump President, some of those pledges, like deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning Muslims from entering the country, are unlikely ever to be […]
Source: Associated Press By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — A leading Israeli think tank on Monday said it has found that Israelis are increasingly losing faith in their government and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Jacob Salem speaks six languages. Yet if he walked into a typical synagogue service in either of the countries where he grew up […]
Source: BBC Evacuation of the last rebel enclaves in eastern Aleppo surrounded by Syrian forces has restarted. Among those to have left is seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who had tweeted about […]
Source: Aljazeera With Russia’s support, unanimous vote to monitor evacuations from Syrian city marks rare agreement between world powers. Evacuees from east Aleppo arrived at rebel-held al-Rashideen [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters] With […]
Source: BBC Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts […]
Source: RT A number of Islamic religious groups from the Gulf States are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments, Suddeutsche Zeitung paper […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Source: Yahoo News By Mike Smith Amona Outpost (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave […]