A fuel depot near Tripoli airport continued to burn for the third consecutive day on Tuesday while a paramilitary warplane crashed in the city of Benghazi during clashes with militants. General Sagr al-Jerouchi, chief of air operations for rebel ex-general Khalifa Haftar, said that it is not immediately clear if the fighter jet suffered a malfunction or was hit by …

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed bids to bring peace in Gaza coupled with the waning influence of the United States in global affairs seem to be hampering a ceasefire bid in Gaza, but the US still remains the single global power capable of mediating a peace deal right now. According to analysts, an unfortunate power vacuum in the …

Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused Israel of “genocide” and called on the Muslim world to arm Palestinians battling “the Zionist regime”. In a speech that marked the festival of Eid al-Fitr, Iran’s supreme leader said that Israel was behaving like a “rabid dog” and a “wild wolf” in acts which are causing a humanitarian crisis …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said that he would be “glad” to return the Profile of Courage award given to him in 2004 by the American Jewish Congress, Turkey’s embassy in the US said on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over Erdogan’s remarks on Israel. It is not clear when and how the award will be returned. The …

Syrian rebels on continued their advance in the province of Hama and tried to destroy the regime’s military airport in the region, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. “The rebels are now nine kilometers (six miles) away from Hama military airport, which they want to put out of action”, the monitor’s director Rami Abdel Rahman said. Yusef …

Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur said that Israel has carried out a “systematic and continued effort to change the ethnic composition of East Jerusalem”. 82-year-old Falk said that in the past few years, Israel has made it difficult for Palestinians to live in Jerusalem and has encouraged the construction of new …

Several children were among those killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza on Monday, bringing the Palestinian death toll due to Israel’s military operation in the Palestinian enclave over the past 21 days to 1,060. Three children and seven others were killed by Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. The children, and two others, were …

The Iraqi army raided several insurgent targets on Monday in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, some 60 kilometers to the southwest of Baghdad, on Monday, killing 17 people, including 3 civilians, during the raids. According to local tribal sources, the raid targeted that Fadhiyya district at 01:00 a.m. local time, and a child and two women were among those killed …

US President Barack Obama’s call for an “immediate, unconditional” humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza has strained Israeli-US ties and put Israeli Prime Minister in a spot of bother among hardliners in his government. According to analysts, Obama’s call for a ceasefire on Sunday was seen as an ultimatum to Netanyahu, as the death toll due to the Israeli violence in Gaza …

On Monday, several thousands of Palestinians gathered at that Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to pray and stand in support of Gaza as the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr began. Police reports suggest that over 45,000 people were at the mosque, with many dressed in black T-shirts with “Gaza, supporting you is our Eid” and “We are all Gaza” written …