CATEGORY: Middle East News
Middle East News
Huawei takes US to court, claims ban unconstitutional
Shenzhen, China - Huawei Technologies, China's telecommunications giant, said on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against the United States for banning government agencies, employees and contractors from using Huawei equipment as the company attempts
Middle East News
Syria students say militants waging war on their future
IDLIB: In Syria’s militant-controlled Idlib province, Mudar Darwish and fellow medical students clutched banners and chanted against the closure of their university. “Our future is being wasted because of unfair decisions against our university,” Darwish
Middle East News
‘Racist’ candidate should be barred from Israel polls: Attorney general
JERUSALEM: A candidate for an extreme-right party that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to boost ahead of April elections should be disqualified over “racist” remarks, the attorney general has said. Israel’s elections committee
Middle East News
Turkey-US relations remain fraught
ANKARA: Tensions between the US and Turkey will continue in the near future, with the latest developments “ringing the alarm bell,” experts warn. Since October 2018, when a Turkish court permitted Pastor Andrew Brunson to
Middle East News
US senators blast Saudi rights record, call MBS ‘full gangster’
Senators challenged US President Donald Trump's nominee to the post of United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia to take a tough line with the kingdom on human rights and other abuses. Senate Foreign Relations
Middle East News
Hundreds of ISIL fighters surrender in Syria’s Baghouz: SDF
US-backed Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria captured 400 ISIL fighters who were trying to escape the armed group's last enclave in eastern Syria. A senior commander for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also said on
Middle East News
Central Americans confront amnesty for war crimes
Guatemala City - For decades, Raul de Jesus Gomez fought for justice for his brother Ramiro, killed in a 1982 massacre in northern Guatemala. Now, he is fighting to keep the perpetrators behind bars.
Middle East News
Arizona senator says she was raped while in US Air Force
United States Senator Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said on Wednesday that she had been raped by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to
Middle East News
UN: “divisive policies” in India could hurt economic growth
The United Nations human rights chief has warned India that its "divisive policies" could undermine economic growth, saying that narrow political agendas were marginalising vulnerable people in an already unequal society. "We are receiving
Middle East News
Syria students say militants waging war on their future
IDLIB: In Syria’s militant-controlled Idlib province, Mudar Darwish and fellow medical students clutched banners and chanted against the closure of their university. “Our future is being wasted because of unfair decisions against our university,” Darwish


