Israeli forces have shot dead forty-two Palestinians, including nine children, since the beginning of the year, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Around 20,000 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem are reportedly slated for demolition, according to watchdogs, with residents forced to pay up to $20,000 if they do not comply and evacuate their homes.
A leading United Nations official has called for the facilitation of aid access to rebel-held areas in Syria’s northwest, warning that relief stocks will soon be depleted.
The NetBlocks internet observatory says Twitter has been restricted in Turkey since Wednesday as online criticism mounted of the government’s response to the devastating quake.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited southern Turkey to inspect the areas badly affected by the magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes that hit the country earlier this week. Anger grew among local people over what they say was a slow Ankara's response to the rescue and relief effort.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has highlighted the country’s need for humanitarian assistance after the recent devastating earthquake. He warned that the US sanctions have worsened the circumstances as the illegal bans are preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the war-torn country.
A controversial Israeli minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extreme-right cabinet has vowed that Tel Aviv's settlement activities in the occupied West Bank will continue unabated. This is while many countries including Israel’s allies, have condemned such plans, illegal under international law.
As desperate search operations continue for possible survivors in quake-hit areas of Turkey and Syria, the death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the two countries has surpassed 7,900, authorities have confirmed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three month state of emergency in the country after Monday’s devastating quake and its aftershocks.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of national mourning, and Syria has appealed to the United Nations for help following devastating earthquakes that killed more than 4,000 people and toppled buildings across southeast Turkey and northern Syria.
Turkey’s lira hit a fresh record low and its stock markets tumbled in the wake of the major earthquake, adding to pre-existing pressures from a strong dollar, geopolitical risks and surprise inflation.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has lashed out at the United States over its hostile policies against the war-torn country. He stated that Washington and its European allies are reusing the same flimsy pretexts they used for the 2003 invasion of Iraq against his country.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and northern Syria. Hundreds of people were killed and hundreds more injured in both Turkey and Syria.
The Saudi war on Yemen as well as the crippling siege of the impoverished Arab country could result in the deaths of thousands of children suffering from cancer, according to a report.
For the fifth straight week, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in 20 Israeli cities including Tel Aviv, chanting slogans against Israel's extreme-right cabinet and its menacing agenda.
Senior officials in US President Joe Biden's administration have offered the Israeli government a package deal to cooperate with the US if they wanted to move ahead with issues such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Israeli forces have shot dead an unarmed Palestinian man in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has confirmed. The shooting incident brought the number of Palestinian fatalities from the Israeli violence this year to 36.
The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has surpassed half a million as Israel's far-right cabinet is poised to build more settler units, according to the latest figures.
Israeli authorities have approved plans for the construction of more than a thousand new settler units in al-Quds in flagrant defiance of the international outcry against Tel Aviv’s illegal settlement expansion and land grab policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
