Cairo, July 15 – Israel’s cabinet voted to accept an Egyptian-mediated cease-fire with Hamas this morning, but the Gaza-based militant organization has yet to endorse the agreement, protesting that the terms of the truce should only apply to Israel. Since ...
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Rafah, Gaza Strip – Greenpeace International has issued a statement lauding the Islamist movement Hamas for using old photos of the civil war in Syria as part of its anti-Israel propaganda effort. “This is not the first time images have ...
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Geneva, July 2 – The United Nations General Assembly voted today to add the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the UN Human Rights Council. The council is the world’s foremost international forum for the advocacy and protection ...
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June 27 – Topographers at the Palestine Institute of Geography (PIG) have published a study indicating that the altitude of Palestinian societal thoroughfares locally considered morally elevated are nevertheless less elevated than the lower routes of other societies. A PIG ...
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New York, June 20 – One week after issuing an announcement calling for the return of three teenage Israeli abductees, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is still not officially sure the three were actually kidnapped, despite boasts to that effect ...
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Mosul, Iraq, June 13 – Islamist militants stormed into the second-largest city in Iraq this week, sending the government’s troops fleeing or into hiding and surprising the West with the discovery that national borders imposed by European diplomats in 1920 ...
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Damascus, Syria, June 6 – The referees tasked with officiating at various soccer matches around the world endorsed the outcome of Syria’s national elections today, in which serving President Basher Assad was reelected to a third term. The referees, widely ...
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Ramallah, May 31 – On the eve of an anticipated announcement that the Palestinians have officially established a unity government between the Fatah and Hamas factions, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shifted the focus to Israel, accusing the Jewish state ...
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Jerusalem, May 26 – Three days into his historic journey to Israel and the Palestinian territories, aides to Pope Francis report that the pontiff is at or ahead of schedule on his mission to offend as many individuals, groups, and ...
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Istanbul, May 21 – Armenians mass-murdered by Turks during and immediately following the First World War are expressing disgust and shock at Palestinian claims that Israel targets them for genocide, and wonder what controlled substances the Palestinians have been ingesting ...
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