The UN Relief and Works Agency will get continuous financial support, according to the French ambassador to Jordan. Alexis Le Cour Grandmaison emphasized the need of putting a stop to settlement violence in the West Bank and promoting a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at a meeting with the Senate’s
Israel and Hamas declared a four-day truce following seven weeks of fighting. 39 Palestinian women and children were freed during this ceasefire. What is known about individuals who have been freed and those who may be freed in the next few days is included below. Early in the evening, they
John T Bennet – White House officials and senior lawmakers are operating under the assumption that Israel will soon begin annexing areas of the West Bank, according to a Senate source familiar with recent conversations. Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, Donald Trump‘s son-in-law and top Middle East peace envoy, briefed senators on Wednesday behind
By Judy Dempsey For Carnegie Europe- When the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany and the European Union clinched a deal with Iran on its nuclear program in 2015, there were some hopes that the agreement would usher in a period of stability in the Middle East. But when
By Rusi – Tobias Borck– As Europe has become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, governments on the continent have closed borders and turned inwards, scrambling to curb the outbreak and minimise the economic fallout. The crisis is raising big questions about European solidarity, while pushing other matters such as
CAIRO — When Dr. Ismail al-Mansouri goes to work in Yemen’s capital, he puts on one of the hospital’s few pairs of medical gloves. Then he enters a cramped clinic teeming with listless patients, many malnourished, some vomiting, others with diarrhea. Al-Mansouri, a pediatrician, has been struggling for years to
From MEE – The United States built an entire infrastructure to counter terrorism and criminalise Muslim communities, spending nearly $6.4 trillion in wars that killed half a million people since 2001. In contrast, there has been little focus on preparing the country for the Covid-19 pandemic. This begs the question: what is the bigger threat? The world has
“I would like to hear a clear declaration,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a visit to Poland last week. “If you want to accept Turkey, just do it. If you don’t want to, just say that.” Erdogan was of course, speaking of Turkey’s bid to join the EU, a partnership
Donald Trump is trying to do something no U.S. president has dared to do in decades: Drive up the price of oil. For more than three decades, U.S. presidents proclaimed cheap fuel as an almost God-given right for American motorists and homeowners, shaping the country’s foreign policy in pursuit of
