Category archives for: Middle East

Saudi Arabia keeps reduced Haj quota in 2015

Haj quota

Saudi Arabia will keep the quota of Haj for Muslims from around the globe at a level that is 50% lower than the normal quota in 2015 due to the ongoing construction and renovation of the Grand Mosque in Makkah to expand it to hold 2.2 million pilgrims at a time. The $2.2 billion expansion […]

Israel orders Gaza 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate their homes

israel shelling on gaza

Israel on Tuesday night continued their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where authorities reported that the number of Palestinians killed in one week already exceeded 200. Several attacks targeted private homes for at least five Hamas leaders, including  the former Foreign Minister of the government of Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar. By Wednesday morning, Palestinians in the […]

World must stop Palestinians genocide by Israel – Nawaz

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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called the Israeli brutal atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza Strip as genocide asking the world to urgently stop the Israel’s naked aggression. Nawaz Sharif in a statement that these crimes against innocent civilians, women children and elderly, were unparalleled in the recent history of the world. “I am […]

Netanyahu pledges to intensify Israeli offensive against Gaza

gaza strip shelling by israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said on Tuesday that Hamas has left us no choice but to intensify the military offensive in Gaza after truce plan offered by Egypt did not work out.  Almost 200 people had died in Gaza as result of Israeli shelling during the past 8 days whereas one Israeli citizen […]

Israel resumes Gaza offensive after several hours of break

israel shelling on gaza

Israel resumed Tuesday the air offensive against the Gaza Strip  six hours after accepting unilaterally the ceasefire proposal presented Monday night by Egypt. The Israeli security cabinet, which met earlier in the day, had voted in favor of accepting the draft that proposes a reduction process of hostilities starting at 9am, which would lead to […]

Libyan factions are fighting for control of Tripoli airport

libya airport closed after clashes

An alliance of Islamist militias tried Sunday to take Tripoli airport form Zintan militia who control facilities. The attack has left groups of passengers trapped in the terminal of the airport at the Libyan capital early in the morning. After several flights suspended, the International Airport has decided to close the facility over the next […]

Corruption destroys Sarkozy’s political comeback dream

Sarkozy

The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the main opposition party in France, is going through an unprecedented crisis that threatens its very survival twelve years after it foundation.  Outrageous new data on the alleged involvement of  Nicolas Sarkozy in corruption has made it worse for UMP survival.  Phone recordings of the former leader of […]

Militias impose terror in Iraq

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Abubaker Asij, a 42 year old lawyer, a graduate of the University of Baghdad, was arrested by the intelligence services of Saddam Hussein in 1997. Suffered torture and spent a long sentence in a slum of more than two meters long and one meter wide. They wanted to execute him, but the amnesty of 2002 […]

Kurdish soldiers take control of two oil fields in northern Iraq

kurdistan take control of oil production facilities

The peshmerga, the security forces of Iraqi Kurdistan, have taken on Friday the control of production facilities at two oil fields in Kirkuk and Bai Hassan in the north of the country. As reported by the oil minister quoted by Reuters, Kurdish soldiers have thrown the entire Arab staff of both plants and have been […]

100 dead in four days of Israeli attacks on Gaza

israel shelling on gaza

Gaza health officials confirmed Friday that the dead are already hundred, 23 of them children, by more than 1,110 Israeli military attacks against Gaza, as part of the operation margin Protector. The last 11 deaths have occurred since last midnight. Among them are four members of the same family of Rafah (border town between Gaza […]

U.S. offers to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Obama and Natenyahu

On the fourth day of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, offered Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. mediation to achieve a truce between Israel and Hamas. In a telephone conversation, Obama told Netanyahu that Washington “is prepared to facilitate a ceasefire, including a return to the ceasefire […]

Israel intensifies bombing of Gaza

Israel launches offensive against Palestine

Israel has intensified during Wednesday night operation Margin Protector  on Gaza. The Hebrew army has fired 322 targets – in early on Wednesday were 150 – on the Strip, killing at least three people, bringing to 74 the death toll from the bombing, according to Reuters. Israel claims that Hamas fires on targets, the Palestinian […]

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