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Gaza demonstrations continue for 45th consecutive week

For the 45th week in a row, Palestinians on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s...

Daesh exploiting Baghdad-Erbil disputes: Kurd region PM

The Daesh terrorist group is seeking to exploit differences between Baghdad and northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said Friday. Speaking to reporters in Erbil, the KRG’s administrative capital, Barzani stressed the “positive...

Dutch national from Gaza sues Israeli officials at ICC

Benny Gantz, a former Israeli army chief and founder of the Israel Resilience Party, is facing a civil suit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the death of six Gazan civilians in 2014, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. According to the newspaper, the plaintiff is...

197 Syrian civilians killed last month: UK-based NGO

At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January, according to a monthly report released Friday by a London-based rights watchdog. In its report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that 57 children and 27 women had been among those killed during the first...