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Mintpress News (blog)
November 22, 2017
In fact, according to Al Jazeera's op-ed, none other than Dahlan himself “happened” to have been invited to Riyadh at the same time Abbas was there. The Saudi message to Abbas was clear: If we can't get you to do what we say, we'll find someone who will. Considering that they'd just successfully forcedÃÂ ...
The Hill
September 16, 2017
There is a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians who have now resigned themselves to the view that peace based on a two-state solution is no longer possible and the current precarious conditions on the ground will become the norm. Others cling to the notion that a two-state solution remains theÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
February 14, 2017
In September 1976, the Israeli Al Hamishmar newspaper published a memorandum which made recommendations as to how to deal with Palestinians living inside the state of Israel, who are considered citizens according to Israeli law. Why this secret document was published then, and who wrote it, wasÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
January 16, 2017
“I was at my cousin's house, heading home, [when] a big white van came by,” Fadi-al-Issawi, a former Palestinian child prisoner, said in the video. “I didn't know what was happening,” he added. “Masked men suddenly opened the doors, and one guy charged at me [and] grabbed me.” When the man fell onÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
January 4, 2017
According to Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from the court, the 2.5 hour-long reading of the verdict revealed that Azaria's claims about how the incident unfolded repeatedly contradicted themselves. The conviction comes as a sigh of relief for advocates of Palestinian rights that have repeatedlyÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 15, 2016
PCC member Bassm Al-Salhe said the decision, which demanded that Israel “should shoulder all its responsibilities toward the Palestinian people in the occupied state of Palestine as an occupation authority according to international law,” was final. “This is a decision that was taken and the PLO executiveÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
June 29, 2015
Gunman Seifeddine Rezgui can be seen wandering away from a group of local men who have formed a human chain to protect tourists on a neighboring beach. A survivor of the massacre in Tunisia has revealed local hotel staff members formed a human shield on the beach in a heroic bid to protectÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
June 4, 2015
Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre Ain Al-Hilweh Massacre Oyoun Qara Massacre Siddiqine Massacre A-Aqsa Mosqie Massacre The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre The Jabalia Massacre Aramta Massacre Eretz Checkpoint Massacre Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre Mnsuriah Massacre
Mintpress News (blog)
May 22, 2015
VALLETTA, Malta — In the course of a joint endeavor between the Maltese Foreign Ministry and the University of Malta, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki gave a public lecture at the Old University in Valletta, Malta, on May 8, in which he discussed the two-state paradigm and Palestine's recentÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 13, 2007
It's not something you'd expect to hear from a 17-year-old high-school student from Deir al-Zahrani, Lebanon, a poor village in the Hizbullah-dominated south—nor, for that matter, anywhere else in the Arab world. Hodeib says he caught the business bug from a school project run by Injaz al-Arab, anÃÂ ...
Just Security
October 24, 2017
The final phase of the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria is in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) and Russia- and Iran-backed Syrian government forces are fighting based on competing agendas and civilians are fleeing the city of Deir ...
Just Security
October 23, 2017
The U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) seized Syria's largest oil field from Islamic State militants yesterday, taking al-Omar – a key source of revenue for the terrorist group – in the Deir al-Zour province, where the S.D.F. and the pro-Syrian government forces are both competing to ...
Just Security
October 19, 2017
A senior Syrian army commander has been killed in the near the eastern city of Deir al-Zour in an operation against Islamic State militants, Brig. Gen Issam Zahreddine led government offences in the Homs province and maintained a government presence in Deir al-Zour despite the almost three year long ...
Just Security
October 5, 2017
Russian airstrikes targeted civilians trying to flee fighting in the Deir al-Zour province, killing at least 60 civilians, according to opposition activists, former residents and the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Suleiman Al-Khalidi reports at Reuters. The reports that Russian soldiers were ...
Just Security
October 3, 2017
Philip Issa reports at the AP. The Russian military claimed that it had killed more than 300 Islamic State militants in airstrikes over the past week outside the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, according to a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry today. The AP reports. Red Cross officials met with a U.S. citizen ...
Just Security
September 26, 2017
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) yesterday accused Russian warplanes of targeting their fighters at three locations in the Deir al-Zour province, stating that one of the sites targeted was a gas field recently seized from Islamic State militants. Erin Cunningham and David Filipov report at the ...
Just Security
September 18, 2017
A stranded convoy containing Islamic State fighters was allowed to continue its journey to Deir al-Zour following a Russian request for the U.S. to stop monitoring the convoy in the desert as part of “deconfliction” efforts. Rod Nordland and Eric Schmitt explain the circumstances surrounding the request at the ...
Just Security
September 15, 2017
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) do not intend to enter the city of Deir al-Zour, the spokesperson for the U.S.-led coalition Col. Ryan Dillon said yesterday, stating that the battlefield was already crowded and the S.D.F. would plan to move down the middle Euphrates River Valley.
Just Security
September 11, 2017
The U.S.-backed Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) launched an offensive on the Islamic State stronghold of Deir al-Zour, the S.D.F. announced Saturday, coinciding with an offensive launched by the Russia and Iran-backed Syrian government forces last week which broke the Islamic ...
Just Security
September 5, 2017
The Syrian army and its allies have broken the Islamic State siege of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, according to Syrian state media, a military media unit run by the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militia group stating that the advancing forces reached an army garrison at the edge of the city. Reuters reports.
Mintpress News (blog)
August 17, 2017
Boycotting is a proven to be an effective tool to fight against the corporate state. But in a country like America, where we are so deeplyÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
March 28, 2017
Just days before a powerful Israeli lobbying organization began its annual conference in Washington, D.C., new legislation targeting Iran wasÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
March 25, 2017
In this second part of our ongoing “Syrians Speak Out” series, MintPress News contributor Sarah Abed puts us in touch with Yasmine, a youngÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
February 14, 2017
As the narrative of the Koenig document implies, the publication seemed to lay the groundwork for the implementation of an apartheid system.
Mintpress News (blog)
February 10, 2017
The bipartisan bill is the latest attack on the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in solidarity with civil society in Palestine.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 16, 2017
Israel's killings and detentions of Palestinian children, demolitions of their homes, and restrictions on their travel and economy all reachedÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
January 4, 2017
Israeli Sergeant Elor Azaria shot and killed Abdul Fatah Sharif in March in an act the verdict deemed revenge. by teleSUR. January 04th, 2017.
Mintpress News (blog)
December 12, 2016
In an interview on 60 Minutes, Netanyahu claimed there were several ways to sabotage the pact, and that he had “about five” different ideasÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 2, 2016
Donald Trump careened wildly between conflicting positions throughout his campaign, including his stance toward the pro-Israel establishmentÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 15, 2016
Recent gunfire against Palestinian protesters in Area C shows the Palestinian Authority's strange position more than two decades since theÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
July 11, 2016
The City University of New York (CUNY), one of the nation's largest public college systems, has proposed a policy to regulate freedom ofÃÂ ...
Naharnet
May 23, 2016
The party also managed to achieve partial wins in the towns of Srifa, Ansar, Deir al-Zahrani, Kfar Rumman, al-Zrariyeh, Adloun, Deir Siryan,ÃÂ ...
Ya Libnan
May 22, 2016
... (15 seats), backed by both the Amal Movement and Hezbollah, won in the Deir al-Zahrani town of Nabatiyyah after an opposing list withdrew.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 4, 2016
“Sheikh al-Nimr preached that we should support the oppressed against the oppressor, regardless of religion.” January 04th, 2016. By Medea BenjaminÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
June 4, 2015
The legacy of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is hotly debated within Iran's leadership. ReformistsÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
May 22, 2015
Malta's foreign minister tells MintPress: “If Israel continues to expand, there is going to be no land left for a two-state solution. There are volumesÃÂ ...
In These Times
December 29, 2014
On December 4, United Auto Workers Local 2865, a union of 13,000 teaching assistants and student-workers at the University of California,ÃÂ ...
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