Month: September 2016

Nearly 50 civilians have been killed and scores more injured in a Saudi airstrike on Yemen’s western Hudaydah province. The strikes were carried out against a busy marketplace in the province’s Hawak district late on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Saudi warplanes targeted residential areas […]

Syria’s envoy to the UN has blasted deadly airstrikes on an airbase, saying the raids show the US, along with Turkey and Israel, have moved from a proxy war to a “personal” one on the Arab state. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting in […]

The Syrian military has announced a new offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are living under siege. Jets pounded rebel positions in the city on Wednesday night as a week-old truce collapsed, reportedly killing at least 13 people. It […]

A rocket launched by Islamic State militants at American troops based in Iraq did contain a mustard agent, the US military has confirmed. No-one was hurt in Tuesday’s attack on the Qayyarah air base near the IS stronghold of Mosul. Marine Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman […]

Britain should apologize for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly […]

Al margen de su participación en Nueva York, en la cumbre de la ONU para los refugiados y los emigrantes, el Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Gebran Bassil, llamó ayer a “poner fin al proyecto totalitario de ISIS y a destruir su ideología que no cesa […]

Mueren unos 30 agentes extranjeros en un ataque de misiles de crucero lanzados por buques de guerra rusos contra una zona en Alepo, en Siria. Los misiles de crucero tipo Kaliber impactaron sobre la sala de coordinación de operaciones de agentes extranjeros, reportó Sputnik. Esta […]

El Ejército libanés arrestó a un cabecilla de ISIS, identificado como Imad Yasseen, en el campamento de refugiados palestinos de Ain El-Hilweh, donde se registran intensos y esporádicos combates desde la noche del miércoles. Efectivos de la Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas capturaron esta mañana […]

Non ci ha pensato neanche un minuto prima di accettare di rappresentare davanti al Tribunale Internazionale dell’Aia Nadia Mural, la ragazza irachena di religione yazida che è stata rapita e torturata dall’Isis nell’agosto del 2014. Amal Alamuddin, la consorte dell’attore George Clooney, ha infatti anteposto l’amore […]