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Arab League Chief said Thursday during an emergency meeting in Cairo over Israel’s position on the Golan Heights that a tribunal for the Palestinian cause should be set up to try Israel. Nabil al-Arabi told delegates that Israel was acting Read more
Members of the main coalition of Syrian opposition groups, the High Negotiations Committee (HNC,) are departing from Geneva where the third round of talks is ongoing in protest against the escalating violence in Syria where market places in rebel-held areas Read more
Lebanese banks could be preparing to freeze out Hezbollah after Governor Riad Salameh of the Central Bank said they are considering the implementation of the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act signed by President Obama in December 2015. There are concerns Read more
Results of the parliamentary elections held on Wednesday were announced late Saturday evening by the Higher Electoral Committee, Syria’s electoral body, and 200 of the 250 seats were won by the National Unity coalition. The UN said it won’t recognize Read more
Prime Minister Netanyahu has stated Sunday during a weekly cabinet meeting that the Golan Heights seized from Syria during the 1967 war known as the Six-Day War will never be returned. This week’s cabinet meeting was held in Golan and Read more
Syrians in government controlled areas went to the polls Wednesday to elect 250 lawmakers among more than 3500 candidates. Chairman of the Higher Judicial Committee for Elections (HJCE) Hisham Shaar had said that international observers and media would not be Read more
The US-Russia negotiated ceasefire is on the verge of collapsing as confrontations between government and rebel forces increase in Aleppo. Damascus intends to “liberate” Aleppo from “illegal armed groups,” said Syria’s Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki during talks with a delegation Read more
The implementation of the expulsion of failed asylum seekers and migrants reached between the EU and Turkey in March began over the weekend with Germany and Greece sending the first contingents. A spokesperson at the German interior ministry said most Read more
The leader of the Future Movement party and once prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss the situation in Lebanon and other regional matters of common interest. During the meeting in Moscow, Read more
A day after Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said in Pakistan that “the existing difference in opinions” between Tehran and Riyadh “must be solved through dialogue”, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir said renewing ties will require that Tehran changes its “behavior.” Read more