A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn today during the Jewish high holiday of Simchat Torah, AFP reports. The attack came 50 years and a day after Egyptian and Syrian forces launched an assault during the Jewish […]Continue Reading
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With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world’s eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark US-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, AFP reports. The Iranian-backed Islamist militants who run the impoverished, blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday fired thousands of rockets and […]Continue Reading
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas took Israel by surprise today (Oct 7) with the biggest attack for decades, a sudden assault by gunmen who crossed into Israeli villages, killed dozens of people and brought hostages back into the Gaza Strip, global news agencies report. Israel responded with massive air strikes deep inside the coastal enclave, killing […]Continue Reading
Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic’s condemnation, Reuters reports. The award-making committee said the prize honoured those behind recent unprecedented demonstrations in Iran and Continue Reading
Myanmar’s cash-starved military regime is again preying on householders and businesses in a desperate bid to prop up its coffers, The Irrawaddy reports. In its latest moves, the regime has increased utility bills while announcing that license fees for jade and gems dealers will be hiked sixfold next year. The state-owned Myanmar Gems Enterprise issued […]Continue Reading
The ethnic Rakhine armed group, the Arakan Army (AA), has been searching Muslim villages near the Bangladesh border in Rakhine State, searching for Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) alleged criminals, The Irrawaddy reports. Large numbers of AA troops have been searching at least nine Muslim villages in northern Buthidaung Township since last week, said residents. […]Continue Reading
The United Kingdom and Canada have joined the United States in condemning plans by Myanmar’s coup leaders to hold tightly controlled elections, as Taiwan voiced strong criticism of the regime’s atrocities and crackdown on its opponents, Al Jazeera reports. Their condemnation is an indication of the hardening divisions between China and Russia on one side, […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, is calling for international action to bring an end to the increasingly brutal, repressive regime of Myanmar’s military, which toppled the country’s democratically elected government February 1, 2021, VOA reports. In a report submitted Tuesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.N. rights […]Continue Reading
Myanmar’s junta killed 24 Sagaing Region resistance fighters and two civilian administrators on Friday evening, according to rebel groups, The Irrawaddy reports. Troops stationed at the entrance of Myaung Township reportedly surrounded resistance fighters from the Chay Yar Taw People’s Defense Force (PDF) and other PDFs under the civilian National Unity Government. “They Continue Reading
Dr Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, advisor to the Royal Court and general supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), said that Saudi Arabia has hosted more than 260,000 Rohingya refugees ever since the beginning of the conflict in Myanmar, Saudi Gazette reports. “The Kingdom has so far spent $2.25 billion to render them […]Continue Reading
