A report at Reuters on February 11 said that private contractors from a security firm that was previously involved in securing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites could be used in Gaza as the new phase of the US-backed ceasefire continues.This…
Category: 3. Middle East
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US-backed plan faces Gaza militia, contractor conflict
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At Damascus book fair, Islamist titles and Kurdish culture echo big shifts
DAMASCUS, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Owning a copy of Sayyid Qutb’s “Milestones” could land you in jail or worse in Syria when the Assads ruled. But at a Damascus book fair this month, the title by the radical Islamist ideologue was on prominent display…
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Pakistan PM to attend Trump peace board’s first meeting, says foreign office
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” next week in Washington, the country’s foreign office said on Thursday.
Under Trump’s Gaza plan,…
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An Israeli Woman Was Stuck in Gaza Throughout the War. Now Israel Won’t Grant Her Residency
On October 7, Leila (a pseudonym, as are the other names in this report), an Israeli woman in her 40s who was born in Jaffa, was in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. She had arrived there only a few days earlier, and was in the midst of…
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Movies can change the world, but not politically, says Berlin Film Festival juror Wim Wenders
By Miranda Murray
BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) – German director Wim Wenders said on Thursday filmmakers must stay out of politics and focus on changing how people think, at the start of the Berlin Film Festival.
Considered more politically minded than…
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Regional implications of the US withdrawal from Tanf
In 2018, the head of US Central Command made a surprise visit to a lonely outpost of America’s war against ISIS. General Joseph Votel visited the Tanf garrison in southern Syria. This was a base where several hundred American troops were…
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US military pulls out of Syria’s Al-Tanf garrison in major shift
WASHINGTON — US troops have completed their withdrawal from the strategic Al-Tanf garrison on Syria’s southern desert border with Jordan and Iraq amid a broader US military drawdown from the country.
The contingent of US soldiers previously…
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Majdal Shams families seek justice against Hezbollah
Eight families of Israeli-Druze children from Majdal Shams killed in Hezbollah’s July 2024 rocket attack filed a lawsuit Sunday in the Jerusalem District Court against the Lebanon-based terror group, seeking NIS 80 million in compensation.An…
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Iran’s FM berates Israeli daily over report of secret mass executions
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday derided a report by the Israel Hayom newspaper that the Islamic Republic had secretly executed thousands of people who participated in protests after telling Washington it would not do…
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Iran fortifies nuclear site amid fears of imminent strike
High-resolution satellite imagery of Iran’s largest and most crucial remaining nuclear facility shows a recent rush to protect it from potential American or Israeli aerial attack, according to the Institute for Science & International Security…
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