Month: September 2016

Threatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives of the minority communities told VOA. Christian and Jews represent about two-tenths of one percent […]

With the abrupt collapse of a cease-fire in Syria last week, international migration officials expect no letup in a wave of migration out of the Middle East that has set off the worst global migrant crisis in 70 years. The five-year conflict in Syria has […]

The U.N. envoy for Libya said Tuesday that armed groups were carrying out “grave human rights abuses with impunity,” and he warned the international community against breaking the arms embargo. Martin Kobler said in Geneva that such abuses needed to be urgently addressed, and that […]

Syrian troops have seized a central neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo from rebel forces, according to reports on state television and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. After capturing the neighborhood of Farafra, government forces continued to engage rebel troops […]

The United States is calling for the immediate release any U.S. Citizen detained by the Houthi-controlled National Security Bureau in Yemen. Such detentions are “unacceptable” and put in jeopardy any Houthi efforts to establish that they are “credible and responsible interlocutors,” the U.S. State Department […]

LONDON — The West must step up its efforts to combat and counter the information war being waged by its opponents, according to NATO officials. They warn that countries like Russia are exploiting the freedom of the press in Western media to spread disinformation. The […]

ALGIERS — Saudi Arabia and Iran on Tuesday dashed hopes that OPEC oil producers could clinch an output-limiting deal in Algeria this week as sources within the exporter group said the differences between the kingdom and Tehran remained too wide. “This is a consultative meeting… […]

ANN-La embajadora de Venezuela para Líbano, Suad Karam, recibió este lunes en su despacho al embajador en situación de retiro, Hisham Hamdán, quien le informó sobre la creación de un “Centro Libanés al servicio de las relaciones con América Latina, debido a la importancia de […]

Arabia Saudita y Qatar apoyan y financian a los terroristas en Siria y si mantienen esa tendencia, no vemos ningún cambio en esa relación, afirmó la consejera presidencial Bouzeina Shaaban. La consejera política y de prensa en la Presidencia de la República, Bouzeina Shaaban, afirmó […]