Category: 2. Palestine

After seismic changes in the region, Iraq’s dominant Shia political bloc has nominated the former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, as its candidate. Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi explains what his return would mean for the…

Dhaka, Bangladesh — When Kazi Shawon Alam learned that Azizur Rahman Musabbir, a fellow Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activist, had been shot dead on January 7, it confirmed to him what many political organisers already felt ahead of…

A Lebanese minister condemns the latest Israeli killing and calls on the international community to ‘take action’.

A television presenter who worked for Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV station has been killed in an Israeli attack on the southern…

Comment by US official on amnesty for Hamas members is seen as a ‘significant step’, as focus moves to next stage of Gaza ceasefire.

Disarmament by Hamas in Gaza will be accompanied by “some sort of amnesty” for the Palestinian group, a…