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On Tuesday, several coal miners were reported to have died in an explosion at a coal mine in the Manisa province in Western Turkey. According to unconfirmed reports, over 300 coal miners and other workers are trapped underground in the privately owned mine in Soma district. The people trapped are about 4 km away from the mine’s exit, and 2 …

Ramallah-based rights group The Palestinian Prisoners Society accused Israeli authorities of cracking down on all Palestinian lawyers, following the indictments and arrests of several attorneys, charged on passing information between the Hamas and people inside and outside Israeli prisons. The organization said that the moves against the attorneys were “dangerous” and “unprecedented”. The groups’ head Qaddura Fares said that the …

The Syrian government and opposition rebels on Friday reportedly agreed to a deal which will allow opposition fighters besieged in the city of Homs to withdraw during a ceasefire. The deal means that all but one district in the city, once called the “capital of the revolution”, will be under government control again. Britain-based monitoring group The Syrian Observatory for …

On Wednesday, Syrian air forces killed over 20 people, including 17 children, in an air strike on the battered city of Aleppo, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the brutal civil war in the country. The air strikes come a day after a twin car bomb attack, claimed by the al-Nusra Front, on a pro-regime area in Homs …

UK has called on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to “urgently” carry out an investigation into the alleged use of Chlorine gas in Syria. The OPCW on Tuesday said that a mission would depart “soon”. However, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said “time is of the essence in establishing the full facts”. He added that claims …

UN officials on Wednesday vowed to do everything they can to stop conflict-wracked South Sudan from falling into genocide, and warned all the warring factions that they will be held responsible if famine breaks out in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay verbally attacked both rebel leader Riek Machar and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, …

Parliamentary speaker Mohamed al-Lahham on Tuesday said that four new candidates had submitted their applications to run for the Presidency in the upcoming elections next month, which President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. The speaker announced the names of four new candidates, with a Christian and a woman among them, in a parliamentary session in Damascus. With the …

طلبت شرطة مكافحة الإرهاب البريطانية دعم النساء المسلمات لمنع الشباب الصغار من السفر إلى سوريا للمشاركة في الصراع القائم في البلاد. تأتي هذه الخطوة عقب الزيادة الحادة في الإعتقلات التي تتعلق بالصراع السوري. كانت هناك زيادة في أعداد المواطنين البريطانين الذين اعتقلوا أثناء سفرهم أو رجوعهم من سوريا من 25 شخصا العام الماضي إلى 40 شخصا خلال الأشهر الثلاثة الأولى …

قال مسؤولون أنه يوم الخميس هاجمت طائرات مقاتلة  باكستانية عدة مخابئ لحركة طالبان في الحزام القبلي شمال غرب البلاد  اللتي ينعدم فيها القانون ، مما أسفر عن مقتل ما لا يقل عن اثني عشر من المتشددين المشتبه فيهم . وهذه هي المرة الأولى التي يشن الجيش غارات جوية على طالبان منذ اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار و محادثات السلام في 1 …

في تقرير يوم الأربعاء، قال الأمين العام لا يزال لا يوجد تحسن في وصول المساعدات لملايين السوريين اللذين في حاجة ماسة إليها  مما يخالف قراراً صدر في مجلس الأمن قبل شهرين و هو  أول قرار متعلق بالاوضاع الانساني في الحرب الأهلية السورية ،  وفيه طالب مجلس الأمن كلا من المعارضة المسلحة والحكومة بالسماح بوصول المساعدات الإنسانية إلى المدنيين. وكتب الامين …