Abdulwahid was arrested on August 12 at his home in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan’s second-largest city and a PUK stronghold, on a defamation charge filed by a former member of parliament. SULAYMANIYAH: A court in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader…
“According to preliminary information, all the villagers, estimated at more than 1,000 people, were killed, and only one survived,” the faction led by Abdulwahid al-Nur said. “The disaster is much bigger than our available resources” KHARTOUM: Rescue teams struggled to…
The hearing began with unruly scenes, with hecklers forcing the judges to halt the proceedings and then resume them without a public audience. The government was given a deadline to find a compromise. Israel’s top court on Tuesday gave Prime…
news analysis On the issue of war, President Trump, to a greater extent than his predecessor, shares the goals of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition. There was a time not long ago when Israel’s renewed war…
Many Israelis were surprised when President Trump announced that the United States would enter into “direct” talks with Tehran in an attempt to curb its nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the past listed the three main threats…
Israeli military officials, confronted with video evidence that contradicts their initial account, now say they were “wrong.” The Israeli military has acknowledged flaws in its initial accounts of its troops’ involvement in the killing last month of 15 people in…
While on a family hike, a child stumbled upon a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will be featured in an upcoming exhibition. Recently, a three-year-old child from Israel made an important archaeological discovery. The child, Ziv Nitzan, was walking with her…
For months, Israelis put aside their deep differences to fight a common enemy. Now, amid renewed government pressure on the government, they are fighting each other. A year and a half ago, after Hamas attacked Israel, Israelis put their internal…
Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked men in his home village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. The Israeli military said he was being held for questioning. Read in Spanish The Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other…
The United Nations is pulling about a third of its international staff out of Gaza, a reduction that comes after an Israeli tank shell hit a UN compound. The United Nations announced on Monday it would reduce its presence in…
Supporters of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said the corruption charges against him were a ploy to thwart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival. Istanbul’s mayor was jailed pending trial on corruption charges and removed from office on Sunday, threatening a…
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the death toll in the enclave since the war began had exceeded 50,000. Israeli forces expanded their offensive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking control of new areas and issuing new evacuation orders for residents…