Browsing: Middle-East News

8 January 2014 – Warning that the critical humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Anbar province is likely to worsen as fighting…

7 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the killing of more than 20 people,…

7 January 2014 – The process of removing Syria’s most critical chemical weapons material outside of the country for destruction…

7 January 2014 – The United Nations and its humanitarian partners today appealed for $1 billion to save millions of…

6 January 2014 – The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of…

6 January 2014 – Preparations for the long-sought international conference on Syria are moving ahead, with the United Nations reaching…

Afghanistan on Thursday said it would release scores of suspected Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men are “dangerous individuals” who could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw. A meeting chaired by Afghan President…

An Al-Qaeda-linked group called on Iraqi Sunnis fighting government forces not to lay down their weapons, saying the choice is between conflict and enslavement, in an audio recording released Tuesday. “Oh Sunni people, you were forced to take up the…

Thousands of African asylum seekers demonstrated outside Western embassies in Tel Aviv on Monday in a second day of mass protests against Israel’s immigration policies. The migrants, primarily from Eritrea and Sudan, marched from downtown Tel Aviv to…

A Saudi court has jailed five people for up to 30 years on charges including plotting to blow up an oil refinery on behalf of Al-Qaeda, state media reported Monday. The official SPA news agency gave no details of when the alleged plot against the refinery…