It was through a call from her local mosque’s loudspeakers that Kasia El Selami learnt it was time to flee as floodwaters rose in her Moroccan village of Ouled Ameur.
Selami is among more than 150,000 people to have been evacuated over the past…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Hamas claims disarmament endangers Palestinians
Hamas’s political leader abroad, Khaled Meshaal, continued to assert that the terror group wouldn’t disarm, claiming on the second day of the Al Jazeera Forum in Qatar that handing over the weapons would leave Palestinians “an easy victim…
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Daily Briefing Feb. 8 – Netanyahu to urgently jet to DC to reset Iran talks agenda
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman weighs in on why the PM brought his planned White House visit forward a week and which new military head is flying with him
The post Daily Briefing Feb. 8 – Netanyahu to urgently jet to DC to reset Iran talks…
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White House peace plan faces Gaza militias, Hamas control
The White House is planning to host a meeting of its Board of Peace on February 19, Axios reported over the weekend. This is important because it continues to try to push forward the ceasefire in Gaza. However, as recent Israeli airstrikes have…
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Will Khamenei and his advisers sell out their nuclear ideology for the regime's survival?
Khamenei’s newly-appointed advisers appear to back a U.S. deal. While a nuclear agreement might bear a high ideological and strategic price, regime survival, backed by ballistic missiles and regional proxies, may prove a worthy compromise
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Hezbollah reshuffles leadership as Israel escalates strikes
Hezbollah is facing increasing airstrikes as Israel continues to target its operatives in Lebanon. The group is also cut off from easy rearmament due to the fact that Syria is now controlled by a government that opposes Hezbollah.As such,…
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Top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal rejects disarmament or ‘foreign rule’
DOHA, Qatar — A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist terror group would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands.
“Criminalizing the…
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Iran insists on right to enrichment, ready for confidence-building
DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium is key for nuclear talks with the U.S. to succeed, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday.
American and Iranian diplomats held indirect talks in Oman on Friday, aimed at…
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Iran defies US threats to insist on right to enrich uranium
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday ruled out Tehran ever giving up uranium enrichment in its negotiations with Washington, insisting it will not be intimidated by the threat of war with the United States.
The minister, Abbas…
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Syrian security officer arrested over killing of civilians in Druze-majority Sweida
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s authorities have arrested an internal security officer as a suspect in the killing of four civilians in the majority-Druze Sweida province, the local internal security chief said.
Four people were shot dead and…
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