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Syria: 90,000 civilians flee Idlib over last 4 days
Around 90,000 more civilians have left their homes in Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria over the last four days due to attacks by regime forces and their allies. ...
Iraq: Al-Sadr supporters shoot fire to disperse Karbala protesters
Eyewitnesses stated that the supporters of the Sadrist movement’s leader, Muqtada Al-Sadr, fired live bullets on Thursday to disperse protesters in the city of Karbala in southern Iraq. ...
Lebanon president to force displaced persons to return home
Lebanon’s new government today “unanimously” approved a new Policy Statement which is set to include a clause demanding displaced persons leave the country. ...
Resolving Israel-Palestinian conflict, ‘key to sustainable peace’ in the Middle East: Guterres
António Guterres told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, meeting in New York, that the Organization supports an end to the decades-long conflict on the basis of numerous “resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements” that have been made, with “recognized borders on the basis of the pre-1967 lines”. ...
Britain and the US condemn regime attack in Idlib
The British and US governments have condemned the Assad regime’s attack on Idlib, a de-escalation zone in Syria. ...
Japan destroyer heads to Middle East as Iran-US tension lingers
Japan sent a naval destroyer to the Middle East on Sunday for a rare overseas mission to ensure the safety of its ships amid lingering tension between Iran and the US. ...
Iraq: Populist cleric Sadr tells followers to clear sit-ins after PM appointed
Populist Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sit-in protests, calling for “day-to-day life” to resume following the appointment of a new prime minister, reported Reuters. ...
UN agency fears 'escalation in clashes' after Trump plan
Palestinians are in a "state of shock" over a US Middle East peace plan, the head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday, voicing fears of a surge in violence. ...
Iraq: attempts of assassination and kidnapping against activists
Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights revealed, on Wednesday, 121 cases and attempts of assassinations and kidnapping against the activists from the popular movement, since the start of the anti-government and political elite protests in early October 2019. ...
Human rights NGO slams Trump plan: ‘Control over movement means control over life’
Israeli human rights organisation Gisha described the newly-published US “peace plan” as “a plan for ongoing conflict”, in a press release issued yesterday. ...
The Elders warn that new US ‘peace’ plan for the Middle East is unworkable
The Elders warned today that the new US proposals announced by President Donald Trump cannot provide a workable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If implemented by Israel, they would make the two-state solution impossible, entrenching deep inequality along ethnic lines and moving the decades-old conflict into a new phase. ...
UN raises ‘serious concern’ over unfair trials of Daesh members in Iraq
The United Nations has raised “serious concern” over what it called “unfair trials” of former members of Daesh by the Iraqi judiciary. ...
Daesh threatens to attack Israel as US unveils peace plan
In an audio message released yesterday by Daesh’s new spokesman, the terrorist group threatened to make Israel the main target of its attacks and also called out Muslims worldwide to impede US President Donald Trump’s peace plan. ...
30 protesters injured in south Iraq as security forces open fire on protesters
Thirty Iraqi protesters were injured yesterday after security forces fired live rounds and tear gas in an effort to disperse demonstrators in the city of Nasiriyah, capital of Dhi Qar Governorate, an Iraqi medical source told Anadolu news agency. ...
Lebanon sees more protests in rejection of new government
Lebanese protesters gathered yesterday to air their rejection of the newly formed government of Prime Minister of Hassan Diab. ...
Iraq forces raid protest camps after Sadr supporters withdraw
Iraqi security forces fired bullets and tear gas yesterday in raids on protest camps in Baghdad and southern cities, killing four people and wounding dozens more, police and medical sources said, Reuters reports. ...
Lebanon: Security forces fire water cannons at protesters
Lebanese security forces fired water cannons and tear gas at anti-government protesters trying to breach a security barricade outside government headquarters in central Beirut, as reported by Reuters. ...
Iraqis security forces raid Baghdad protest site
Iraqi security forces have moved against the main anti-government protest site in central Baghdad. ...
Absent Iran faces detente calls from worried West and Middle East
Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif skipped this year’s Davos, but Tehran was still a hot topic for many Western and Middle Eastern powers hoping for detente less than three weeks after the United States killed Iran’s top general. ...
Hundreds of thousands protest US troop presence in Iraq
Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Baghdad on Friday calling for US troops to leave Iraq, heeding the call of powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who called for a "Million Man March." ...
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