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Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has been indicted by a French prosecutor after being taken in custody on rape charges. Two women filed rape charges against Ramadan at a French court. Read more
Turkey Friday rejected placement of Hamas Chief on the US blacklist of terrorists, calling the Islamist movement an ‘important reality of the Palestinian political life’. “It is obvious that this decision, which overlooks the fact that Hamas is an important Read more
The Iraqi army launched a combing operation in Anbar’s deserts towards the Saudi borders to clear the area of remaining ISIS elements. Iraq announced the end of IS in Iraq last December after a military offensive that ousted the terrorist Read more
Iranian authorities cracked down on anti-mandatory headscarves protests in Tehran and arrested 29 activists, media reports said. Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off their headscarves and waving them aloft on sticks. Iran’s Read more
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned the Syrian regime against the use of chemical weapons after reports of chlorine gas being used by Assad forces against civilians in Eastern Ghouta surfaced. Mattis did not rule out a military action Read more
Arab Foreign ministers have called for the setting up of a multilateral mechanism under the auspices of the United Nations to sponsor the peace process in the Middle East. This came in a resolution issued Thursday at the end of Read more
The Israeli army said Friday it hit a Hamas position in Gaza Strip after the Islamist movement allegedly launched a missile late on Thursday towards the Jewish state. An Israeli aircraft hit a position of Hamas in the enclave in Read more
The Saudi prominent business tycoon Prince Al-waleed bin Talal has resumed work at his Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) few days after his release from detention in the anti-corruption clean-up driven by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman. Online footage showed the Read more
South Africans in the city of Johannesburg have marked the 17th birthday of Ahed al-Tamimi, a Palestinian teenage girl who has become a global icon in Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation following her arrest late last year. Al-Tamimi marked her Read more
A group of British lawyers launched a campaign to remove Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council, arguing that Riyadh’s membership of the body is “contradictory and ironic”. Ken Macdonald and Rodney Dixon are due to submit their report Read more