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Sudanese migrants in Israel fear deportation after coup

JERUSALEM (AP) — For nearly 10 years, Monim Haroon has only known one home: Israel. Like thousands of Sudanese migrants, he lives and works without legal status, fearing that a return to his native land would be a death sentence. Israel's normalization of ties with Sudan, announced last...

Turkey offers to help Lebanon with crisis with Gulf nations

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday his country is ready to offer whatever support it can to help mend relations between Lebanon and Gulf Arab nations, embroiled in an unprecedented diplomatic rift. The spat with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states unraveled late last...

Germany: Islamic extremist motive possible in train attack

 German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been found on the suspect and that material...

EU imposes sanctions on 4 new Syria regime ministers

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four ministers recently appointed to the Syrian government, blaming them for playing a role in the continued repression on civilians in the war-torn country. Asset freezes and travel bans in Europe were imposed on the four, who include the...

UAE bans some Mideast travelers from flights to Belarus

 The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from boarding flights to Belarus, cutting off one of the last major air routes for would-be migrants to a nation on the European Union’s eastern border. The decision reported by travel agencies in Iraq...

Five soldiers killed in Deir Ezzor attack: monitor

A general and four soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack in eastern Syria, a where jihadist groups are active, a war monitor said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a bomb exploded close to the vehicle carrying the five troops in Deir Ezzor province. The...

China donates 500,000 more vaccine doses to Syria

Damascus (AFP) – China donated 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday to war-torn Syria, which has one of the world's lowest inoculation rates and what the UN called an alarming rise in cases. The latest shipment raises to almost two million the number of such deliveries to Syria in a...

Polish Muslim leader helps feed migrants and soldiers

 Maciej Szczęsnowicz cried when he saw migrants at the border for the first time, hungry and exhausted from the ordeal of being stuck while trying to enter from Belarus. The chairman of the local Muslim community in the eastern Polish village of Bohoniki, Szczęsnowicz saw people so...

Fire rips through forest in Homs, 10 hectares destroyed

  A fire raged through forest areas in central Homs province destroying dozen of hectares, local media outlets reported Sunday.   Civil Defense workers have put out the blaze as thick clouds of smoke covered much of the western countryside of Homs province late on Saturday.  ...

Syria rebels shoot down Russian drone near Raqqa

  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels on Saturday shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone in the northeastern Ras al-Ayn region at the fire line with the Kurdish-led forces.   Rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the Ahrar al-Sharqiya Division, key rebel faction in the National...

Drought forces Iraqi farmers to leave their land

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment. Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in...

Syrian airline suspends Belarus flights over migrant crisis

 Syria’s private Cham Wings Airlines on Saturday suspended flights between Damascus and the Belarus capital of Minsk because of the “critical circumstances” along the Belarus-Poland border where thousands of migrants have been trying to cross into the European Union. The company said...