The African continent is an environment conducive to the spread of extremist groups. Sixty-four terrorist organisations are based in the continent, five of the most dangerous of which are based in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region with ties to (...)
بعد طول انتظار نجح البرلمان العراقي في انتخاب النائب محمد الحلبوسي رئيساً له، بعد مرور أربعة أشهر على الانتخابات التشريعية التي أجريت في مايو الماضي التي شهدت الكثير من التشكيك التي رافقت نتائج الإنتخابات.
فقد صوت غالبية أعضاء مجلس النواب العراقي (...)
تتصاعد وتيرة الاحتجاجات المشتعلة فى مدينة البصرة العراقية، في ظل سقوط عدد من القتلى والجرحى، وإحراق عدد من المبانى الحكومية، وبدت الأوضاع فى تلك المدينة التى تعتبر أغنى المدن العراقية باحتياطى النفط على صفيح ساخن مع استمرار التظاهرات الغاضبة.
فهناك (...)
كتبت - وفاء بسيوني
في الوقت الذي تعتبر اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر باب أمل يُفتح في وجه أولئك الناس الذين دمرت الحرب حياتهم ، إلا أن هذه المؤسسة التي لا تقف أمامها المسافات لإنقاذ أرواح المدنيين وتساعد الناس على إعادة بناء حياتهم ، لم تسلم من (...)
Deputy Prime Ministers of Belgium, Alexander De Croo and Didier Reynders, Wednesday condemned the Israeli authorities' demolition of a Belgium-funded children's playground in Zaatara, in the West Bank governorate of Nablus.
The Belgium officials (...)
Israeli police imposed on Wednesday several restrictions on the entry and exit of Palestinians to and from al-Issawiya, a town on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem.
Local sources told WAFA that Israeli policemen set up checkpoints at the entrances (...)
President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Sunday ahead of his expected participation in the fifth extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Palestine and Jerusalem.
During the Official (...)
Hunger striking Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails Mohammad al-Qiq rejected an offer by the Israeli military prosecution to release him on May 1, Sunday reported the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission.
According to the commission, al-Qiq (...)
Israeli authorities issued administrative detention orders against 17 Palestinians, placing them in jail without charge or trial, Sunday reported the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS).
While four out the17 detainees received renewed (...)
Israeli forces Sunday detained four Palestinians, including a young woman, from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, reported security sources.
Forces launched a raid and search campaign across Hebron city, and the town of Dura to the north, (...)
Israeli authorities Sunday blocked the roads leading to Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin congregation of about 19 small villages south of Hebron, with earth mounds, according to local sources.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Anti-Settlement Commission, (...)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message delivered on his behalf to a conference on the "Rights of the Palestinian people", that the recent attacks by Palestinians against Israelis are "bred from nearly five decades of Israeli (...)
Israeli settlers Thursday shut down the Gush Etzion road junction, south of Bethlehem, obstructing Palestinian traffic movement, security sources told WAFA.
A group of Jewish settlers gathered at Gush Etzion junction and closed the main road that (...)
President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday received US Secretary of State John Kerry in the presidential headquarter in the city of Ramallah and discussed efforts to restore trust in the two-state solution.
Presidency Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudaina said the (...)
The United Nations' Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory, Robert Riper, contended that Israel's punitive home demolition policy taken against Palestinians suspected of carrying attacks (...)
Israeli army Tuesday opened gunfire toward Palestinian homes and agricultural land situated near the borderline to the east of Gaza city, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said Israeli armored tanks opened a barrage of gunfire as well as fired (...)
Israeli settler guards, protected by Israeli army forces, Sunday attacked and chased Palestinian olive pickers off their land, located near the town of Beit Ummar to the north of Hebron, according to local sources.
Mohammad Awad, spokesman of the (...)
Israeli police forces Sunday blocked the eastern entrance of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiyeh with cement blocks, preventing Palestinians movement in and out of the area.
WAFA correspondent reported on local sources as saying that (...)
Israeli forces Tuesday morning installed a steel gate at the main northeastern entrance of Ein Yabrood village, east of Ramallah, following clashes that erupted there on Monday.
This came a day after clashes that erupted between army soldiers and (...)
Israeli forces Monday forced 13 Palestinian Bedouin families in northern Jordan Valley to leave their homes to make way for Israeli military training in the area, according to local sources.
Aref Daraghmeh, head of al-Maleh local council in northern (...)
President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday offered his condolences to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and to the families of 224 people who lost their lives after a Russian airliner crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula earlier (...)
President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday offered his condolences to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and to the families of 224 people who lost their lives after a Russian airliner crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula earlier (...)
The European Union made its third contribution in 2015, amounting to €12.6 million, to the Palestinian Authority's quarterly payment of social allowances to poor Palestinian families living in the West Bank and Gaza, said a statement issued Friday (...)
A total of 16 Palestinians were shot and injured, including one with a banned bullet, in renewed clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces at the northern entrance of Al-Bireh in the central West Bank.
Israeli forces cracked down on a (...)
Israeli forces late Monday and early Tuesday detained 28 Palestinians, including minors, from across the West Bank districts, including Jerusalem, according to local and security sources.
Forces detained nine Palestinians during a raid and search (...)