Iceland’s capital passes motion to boycott Israeli products
Reykjavik — The city council in Iceland’s capital voted Tuesday to boycott Israeli imports.The Reykjavik municipality adopted the motion to ban Israeli products as long as Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories continues, according to Iceland Magazine. Council members said the boycott represents Iceland’s support for...Egypt killed 55 militants in Sinai, two soldiers also slain
CAIRO — Egyptian security forces killed 55 militants in Sinai on the ninth day of an operation against Islamists in the area, the military said in a statement on Tuesday. It was not possible to independently confirm the figure. The insurgency, mounted by ISIS' Egyptian affiliate, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has...Palestinians, Israeli police clash at al-Aqsa mosque
Israeli police detain a Palestinian protester in Jerusalem's Old City, Sept. 15JERUSALEM – Israeli police armed with stun grenades and tear gas clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian youths who barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday, police and witnesses said, in the third day of violence at the sacred...32 nations criticize Bahrain’s human rights record
A Bahraini anti-government protester, Aug. 13, 2013. Photo: APGENEVA — Thirty-two countries including the United States and Britain expressed concern on Monday about Bahrain's human rights record, urging the Western-allied kingdom to protect the right to peaceful assembly and address reports of torture.The letter, read out by...Egyptian security forces kill 8 Mexicans, 4 Egyptians “by accident”
The Egyptian western desert and the Bahariya Oasis, May 15 Photo: ReutersCAIRO — Egyptian security forces killed 12 people and wounded 10 "by accident" when they mistook a convoy of mostly Mexican tourists for a group of militants they were hunting in the desert, the interior ministry said on Monday.At least two...Sandstorm kills 12 in Lebanon and Syria
BEIRUT — An unseasonable sandstorm has hit Lebanon and Syria, leaving at least 12 people dead and sending hundreds to hospitals for breathing difficulties. At least three refugee women died in Lebanon on Tuesday where at least 750 others were hospitalized for asphyxiation or shortness of breath, the health ministry said. The...Egypt sends up to 800 ground troops to Yemen’s war
SANAA – As many as 800 Egyptian soldiers arrived in Yemen late on Tuesday, Egyptian security sources said, swelling the ranks of a Gulf Arab military contingent which aims to rout the Houthi group after a five-month civil war. It was the first reported deployment of ground troops there by Egypt, which has one of the Arab world's...Palestinians set to raise flag at UN
UNITED NATIONS — Palestine's flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian resolution, infuriating Israel with a move that Palestinians described as a step toward U.N. membership. There were 119 votes in favor out of 193 U.N. members. The United States and Israel...Russia raises stakes on Syriaa head of U.N. meeting
DAMASCUS – By refusing to clarify the scale of its military presence in Syria, Russia keeps the West fearing a considerable build-up to win a stronger bargaining position when world powers sit down to talks on the conflict, Western diplomats in Moscow said. Those discussions could take place as soon as this month, when Russian...
Mother of burned Palestinian baby dies of wounds
September 7th, 20150 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha pictured with his father Saad and mother Riham RAMALLAH — The mother of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby burned to death in an arson attack in the occupied West Bank, has herself died from injuries sustained during the attack.Reham Dawabsheh, 26, who died on Sunday night in an Israeli hospital, had...Palestinians push to fly their flag at the U.N.
RAMALLAH — Israel complained to the United Nations on Tuesday about a Palestinian initiative to fly the Palestinian flag alongside those of full member states at the world body's headquarters, calling it "another cynical misuse of the U.N. by the Palestinian Authority." Currently, only member states' flags fly at the U.N....Former ICC chief prosecutor pushes for Yazidi genocide case
The former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) is pushing for a case to be opened into the "ongoing genocide" against Iraq's Yazidi community at the hands of ISIS militants. Luis Moreno Ocampo said he was approached in the United States recently by Yazidi activists who are seeking justice for the systematic...ISIS attack kills 28 in Sanaa mosque
SANAA — ISIS's Yemen branch claimed responsibility for two bombings at a mosque in a northern district of the capital Sanaa that killed at least 28 people and wounded 75 on Wednesday. The al-Mo'ayyad mosque, in the al-Jarraf neighborhood of Sanaa, has previously been targeted by ISIS, who regard the Iran-allied Houthis as...
Photo of drowned Syrian toddler alert world to refugees’ suffering
September 3rd, 20150 ANKARA — The distraught father of two Syrian toddlers who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach Greece identified their bodies on Thursday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani. Abdullah Kurdi collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum...ISIS attack kills 28 in Sanaa mosque
SANAA — ISIS's Yemen branch claimed responsibility for two bombings at a mosque in a northern district of the capital Sanaa that killed at least 28 people and wounded 75 on Wednesday.The al-Mo'ayyad mosque, in the al-Jarraf neighborhood of Sanaa, has previously been targeted by ISIS, who regard the Iran-allied Houthis as......
Twelve Syrians drown heading from Turkey to Greek island
A Turkish police officer stands next to the body of the young boy. Photo: ReutersANKARA — An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey's prime tourist resorts swept across social media on Wednesday, after at least 12 presumed Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.The picture showed a...ISIS accused of launching chemical attack in Iraq
ERBIL, Iraq — Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a homemade rocket fired by ISIS at their peshmerga forces in northern Iraq contained chemical substances, accusing the terrorists of an increasing use of chemical weapons.The Kurdistan Region's Security Council (KRSC) said the attack had taken place along the front line......
ISIS shows images of ancient Syrian temple destruction
DAMASCUS — ISIS militants published photos on Tuesday purporting to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an act the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has called a war crime. Syria's antiquities chief, Maamoun Abdulkarim, told Reuters the images did appear to show the destruction of the ancient...Warring sides in Syria agree to local ceasefires
DAMASCUS — Warring sides in Syria have agreed to extend a ceasefire in a rebel-held town near the border with Lebanon and two Shi'a villages in the northwest, and to evacuate wounded, sources close to talks said. The truce is the second in a month in those areas between the Syrian army and its Hezbollah allies on one side and...Lebanon braced for more protests as crisis deepens
BEIRUT — Activists have promised to renew protest in downtown Beirut as the government continues to fail to solve the continuing garbage crisis. Protests against the government turned violent over the weekend, and Prime Minister Tammam Salam threatened to resign as public discontent brought thousands into the...Saudi Arabia holding main suspect in 1996 Khobar Towers bombing
RIYADH — The main suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia has been captured after nearly 20 years on the run, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. Asharq al-Awsat said Ahmed al-Mughassil, leader of the Hezbollah al-Hejaz who had been indicted by a U.S. court for......
ISIS attack kills two senior Iraqi commanders in Ramadi
BAGHDAD — Two senior Iraqi military commanders were killed on Thursday in suicide car bomb attacks claimed by ISIS in Anbar province where pro-government forces are battling the insurgents, a military spokesman and police sources said. The military and police, backed by Shi'a militias, Sunni tribal fighters and U.S.-led coalition air...Videos show Libyan officials abusing jailed Gaddafi son
TRIPOLI — New videos show Libyan security officials threatening Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi in an effort to force him to talk, two weeks after footage emerged showing guards beating him in the same Tripoli jail. The videos, posted on social media, are an apparent attempt to embarrass the government controlling Tripoli, one of the......
ISIS bomb wounds 30 at Cairo courthouse
CAIRO — ISIS's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 30 people, including eight policemen, near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai Province, said the bomb was a reprisal for the execution of six of its...Four Hamas militants abducted in Sinai
GAZA — Four members of Hamas' armed wing were abducted in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after the bus they were on was stopped by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the Palestinian group and Egyptian security officials said. Russian news agency Sputnik reported that the Egyptian branch of ISIS abducted the......