Israel cancelled a session of peace negotiations with the Palestinians scheduled for Wednesday after the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas pledged to form a joint government, an aide to Israel’s prime minister said. “Israel cancelled the negotiations…
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Wrapped in a purple shawl, Mirjan wanders downcast among the ruins of the Islamabad slum where she lived, newly demolished. The authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, affluent capital have declared war on the slums, largely populated by Christians and Afghan…
Syria has announced it will hold a June 3 presidential election, expected to return Bashar al-Assad to office, as fresh claims emerged of his regime’s use of chemical weapons. Syria’s first presidential election — after constitutional amendments scrapped…
Saudi Arabia dismissed its health minister on Monday just days after he visited a hospital at the centre of growing concerns about the kingdom’s handling of the MERS virus. Abdullah al-Rabiah was named adviser to King Abdullah and replaced by Labour…
19 April 2014 – Syria has, as of 19 April, removed or destroyed in-country approximately 80 per cent of its…
17 April 2014 – On his first official visit to the Gaza Strip, the new head of the United Nations…
17 April 2014 – Regretting the abrupt halt in talks between the Syrian authorities and the negotiating committee representing civilians…
Palestinian negotiators have warned they may pass responsiblity for their territory back to occupying power Israel if peace talks remain stalled, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday. The official said the Palestinians told US peace envoy Martin…
Weekend drone strikes in Yemen killed more than 40 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including 30 on Sunday, days after the jihadist network’s Arabian Peninsula offshoot vowed to fight against Western “crusaders”. The United States is the only country that…
Two people were killed Saturday when their car exploded in a Shiite village in Bahrain, the interior ministry said, although it was unclear whether the vehicle itself had been targeted. A third person was wounded in the blast and taken to hospital as…