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The Syrian Center for Policy Research, in co-operation with the UN Palestinian refugee agency and the UN Development Program, produced the report “Squandering Humanity”, which says that the Syrian civil war has had a disastrous effect on its economy, and has plunged half of its population into poverty. According to the report, the conflict is creating “economies of violence that …

Attacks in different parts of Iraq on Wednesday led to the deaths of 14 people. The strikes are the latest in a long wave of violence that has caused more than 4,000 deaths this year already. The bombings and shootings struck in Baghdad and parts of the West and the North, leaving dozens wounded, medical and security officials said. The …

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign affairs minister of the Russia, which leads the “axis of evil” in the world, said that it is inconceivable and illegal to hold elections in Ukraine while a faction of the Ukrainian people, i.e. the Russian-speaking minority, is under an armed threat. Bashar Al-Assad’s criminal regime has killed more than 200,000 Syrians, including 60,000 women and …

The Syrian branch of the al-Qaeda, the Al-Nusra Front, on Monday claimed responsibility for the two car bomb attacks in the city of Homs on Sunday. The Governor of Homs Talal al-Barazi said that the twin car bombs attacks claimed the lives of 12 people. According to the group’s Twitter account, “God generously made it possible for the jihadists of …

Domestic opposition in Syria has said that Presidential polls in the war-torn country scheduled to be held on June 3rd will only worsen the political divide in the country and boost the “arrogance” of the regime. President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win the poll, which the West and exiled rebels have called a “farce”. Opposition leader Louay Hussein …

Violence in parts of North Iraq on Friday led to the deaths of at least 24 people, as several Shiite pilgrims visited the capital city for their annual commemoration rituals. The bombings came amid tight security in Baghdad, as Iraq struggles to deal with drawn-out bloodshed in the country that has seen over 3,700 people in the country die so …

Syrian rebel forces in the city of Daraa shelled a rally for President Bashar Assad’s re-election campaign late on Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding 30 others. The strike comes after the Syrian army had cut off a key rebel supply route to the city of Aleppo. Bashar Assad faces two little-known other candidates in the upcoming poll on June …

On Wednesday, the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin defended the right of Palestinians to a “sovereign and independent” homeland, saying that he hoped that the Pope’s upcoming visit will lead to a “courageous decision” for peace. Cardinal Parolin’s role in the Vatican is equivalent to that of a country’s Prime Minister. “We know that the pope is going …

On Friday, Narendra Modi dominated the polls to win the general elections in India, utterly trouncing the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty from power in the center, in a major political shift in the country. Modi’s landslide victory, the largest margin of victory in general elections in India for the past thirty years, was welcomed by a blistering rally in Indian stock markets …

Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians in a Nakba day demonstration near Ramallah in West Bank. The Palestinians, twenty-year-old Musaab Nuwarah and seventeen-year-old Mohammed Udeh, died of their wounds in a Ramallah hospital on Thursday. The Palestinians were shot in the chest by Israeli Border Police forces during a demonstration held on Nakba, literally translating to catastrophe, remembering the day of …