Middle East

A team of Saudi and British academics has begun preparations to include philosophy in the Saudi secondary school syllabus. The team also began a training programme for more than 200 teachers to begin teaching philosophy after the subject was banned for decades, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Friday. The plan was announced by Saudi Education Minister […]

Kurds

Erdogan warns Trump: Drive YPG Kurds from Manbij or Turkey will Invade

AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed Friday to “more effective coordination” between their countries’ operations in Syria, after Ankara threatened to launch a new offensive in the war-torn nation. The two leaders spoke after Erdogan warned of a fresh Turkish operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia that risks aggravating […]

Israel/ Palestine

Mob of Israeli Squatters attack Ambulance, Palestinian Cars throughout Hebron

Maan News Agency

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance and several other Palestinian vehicles, on Thursday night, in across the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron. PRCS sources confirmed that one of their ambulances, which was transporting a Palestinian patient to a hospital in Hebron City, was attacked by a […]

Yemen

Why you Need to Understand Yemen’s Houthi Rebels

The Conversation

By Myriam Renaud | – Chicago (The Conversation) – Fully half of Yemen’s population – 14 million people – are on the brink of starvation. Some analysts blame their inability to access basic foodstuff on escalating conflict between two religious factions: the country’s Sunni Muslims and its Houthis. The Houthis belong to the Shiite branch […]

Featured

Senate Fingers Saudi Bin Salman as Murderer, Demands End of Yemen War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Seven Republicans joined the Democrats in the Senate in voting for resolutions that 1) assigned the blame for the murder of the dissident Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman and 2) invoked the War Powers Act of 1973 in calling for […]

Yemen

Yemeni Mothers forced to Choose Which Child Starves: Aid Group

Middle East Monitor

(Middle East Monitor) – Mothers are being forced to leave their children to starve as they face a “catastrophic” shortage of food in war-torn Yemen, a humanitarian group said on Thursday, reports Reuters. As the warring parties pledged a ceasefire over a key entry port for supplies, Action Against Hunger said many civilians were struggling […]

Yemen

Yemen’s Warring Parties agree to Ceasefire at Key Port in UN Talks

Natacha Yazbeck

Rimbo, Sweden | AFP | – Yemen’s warring parties on Thursday agreed to a ceasefire on a vital port in a series of breakthroughs in UN-brokered peace talks that could mark a major turning point after four years of devastating conflict. If implemented, the deal on the Hodeida port, a key gateway for aid and […]

Israel/ Palestine

Natalie Portman: Israel’s ‘Nation-State Law’ is ‘Racist’ and ‘a Mistake”

TeleSur

Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman said in an interview to London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Israel’s nation-state law is “racist” and a “mistake.” During the interview published Thursday, Portman said that the nation-state law is a decision that impacts the lives of many people. The nation-state law passed in July states that “Israel is the […]

Saudi Arabia

When Bin Salman Killed Khashoggi, he Killed his Futuristic Megacity, ‘Neom,’ Too

Middle East Monitor

Doubts have grown over the future of one of Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious projects in the aftermath of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s Consulate in Istanbul. Already reeling from the cancellation the $100 billion initial public offering of state energy giant Saudi Aramco, the Kingdom may now have to part with […]