Category: 3. Middle East

“It’s ironic that I left a country with no freedom of expression – only to find myself being silenced in the West – and in an event promoting dialogue between Israelis and Iranians,” Faeze Alavi commented.

Mohammed Hussein Mohammedie was just 19 when he left Iraq and attempted the perilous English Channel crossing in November 2021.

He died alongside 26 others when their dinghy sank.

His family were refugees from Iran and suffered financial hardship,…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday warned “the fate of free societies” was linked to their fight against anti-Semitism, at a conference in Jerusalem, where the attendance of far-right European politicians has divided the…

Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets across northern Gaza on Tuesday in rare public protests against Hamas, calling for an end to the war with Israel and expressing mounting frustration over worsening living conditions. 

Israel on Thursday kicked off a conference on fighting anti-Semitism, with the attendance of politicians from Europe’s far right driving division within the international Jewish community.

Among those invited to the symposium are a member of…

Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel.

The moves came after police…

Sudan’s gold industry has become the lifeblood of its war, with nearly all of the trade channelled through the United Arab Emirates, enriching both the army and paramilitaries, according to official and NGO sources.

The two-year conflict has…