Al-Jazeera 21 December 2017 Libyan general Khalifa Haftar has said the mandate for a UN-backed government in Tripoli has expired, plunging the North African country deeper into political turmoil. Haftar declared the UN-brokered Libyan political agreement and its institutions “void” in a televised speech earlier this week. “The 17th of December has arrived and brought with it the […]
Citizens International condemns in its strongest term on the deplorable decision made by the Zionist Regime Israel to detain Miss Ahed Tamimi a 16-year-old Palestinian activist last 19 December 2017. As at 28 December, we were made to know that her detention orders have been extended. Bassem who is Ahed’s father posted on Facebook
Now, Middle East Eye reports that one of MBS’s guests has reportedly died under torture rather than fork over his money and assets to his domineering relative. He was reportedly beaten and tortured so bad his family members had difficulty recognizing his body. Major general Ali Alqahtani, who was detained in early November as part
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In a story that did the rounds last week, the United Arab Emirates representative to the UN, Ahmed Awad, stormed out of a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-session in Geneva after refusing to directly address criticisms made by civil society groups concerning the deteriorating human rights situation in the country. Introduced by the United Nations
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Al-Monitor December 12, 2017 One of Washington’s most powerful Middle East operators is fast becoming one of its most over-exposed. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has developed a sophisticated lobbying and public relations enterprise over the past decade that has helped position the oil-rich country as a key economic and counterterrorism partner for the
On 23 December 2016, the last UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine and Israel was passed. The resolution reaffirmed the illegality of Israeli settlement activities stating that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law”.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Middle East Eye 17 December 2017 Mohammed bin Salman has been named in reports as the new owner of a $300m French chateau described by Fortune magazine as the world’s most expensive home. The vast property west of Paris would be the latest in a string of extravagant purchases by the Saudi crown prince,
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, was summoned at 8:30 a.m. to the Saudi royal offices — unseemly early, by the kingdom’s standards — on the second day of a visit that was already far from what he had expected. Mr. Hariri, long an ally of the Saudis, dressed that morning in jeans
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Now that he’s ripped the mask off the farce of a two-state solution, perhaps the U.S. president can help establish the first genuine democracy in the Middle East By Gideon Levy December 11, 2017 “Information Clearing House” -Theodor Trump, the visionary of the single state. Without Herzl’s beard or Basel, the site of the First
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Newsweek 12 December 2017 News of a covert agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces and ISIS was first leaked last month after a BBC News investigation. The U.S.-led coalition denied being a party to any agreements, telling Newsweek it does not “make deals with terrorists,” but acknowledging that its partner had let convoys depart the
