Middle East Experience

The call comes at a time of increasing tensions between the two countries over Turkey’s killing of two Iraqi officers..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: US calls for Turkey-Iraq cooperation to tackle PKK

Some 46 high schools in Israel achieved 100% matriculation eligibility. Most of these schools were state Jewish-religious schools. Five were religious-ecclesiastical schools in the Arab sector.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Jewish-religious, Druze schools lead national school rankings

Security forces used “lethal force” on Aug. 8, firing live ammunition, metal pellets and rubber balls at protesters, health care workers and journalists, states a report published Wednesday by Human Rights Watch..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: HRW condemns security forces' violence on Aug. 8

The leaders “noted a mutual interest in continuing coordination in the Syrian sector to counter international terrorism."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Netanyahu, Putin agree to continue coordination in Syria

The agreement was reached during IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi's visit to Iran and came one day after Iran's top nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi said meetings had been constructive.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Iran agrees to let UN nuclear watchdog visit two disputed nuclear sites

Shay Ohayon, 39, was named as the victim of the stabbing. The Shin Bet is interrogating the Palestinian suspect.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Man killed in stabbing attack in central Israel, Palestinian arrested

“There is something about this corona that makes a lot of people lose judgement,” coronavirus commissioner Prof. Ronni Gamzu told the Post.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Gamzu to ‘Post’: Coronavirus plagued by politicians’ illogical decisions

An activist has died while in pre-trial detention at a prison in Cairo, shedding light on the state of human rights in Egypt and the fate of thousands of political prisoners.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Suspicion mars death of Egyptian activist in custody

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas agreed with his Israeli counterpart Thursday that an effort must be made to extend a weapon embargo on Iran, while stressing Germany still sees the landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers as the best way to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon.With a current UN arms embargo on Iran due to expire on October 18, Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told reporters in Berlin an extension was needed to prevent Iran from getting “more advanced weapons systems and spreading them around the Middle East.”“We would like to see the European countries, not just Germany, preventing it,” he said. “It's not helpful for the stability of the region.”For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Ashkenazi was in Berlin to attend a two-day meeting of European foreign ministers at the invitation of Germany, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency.The United States wants a full extension of the embargo on Iran, which would almost certainly be vetoed by Russia and China in the U.N. Security Council, Maas said.Germany and others are currently trying to find some middle ground that would meet with Russian and Chinese approval - and not be vetoed by the US in the Security Council.“We are trying to reach a diplomatic solution so that there will be an arms embargo on Iran in the future,” Maas said.Read more:US resolution to extend Iran arms embargo rejected at UNSCIran’s Zarif claims US has no right reimpose UN sanctions, threatens consequencesUS disappointed by European allies on Iran sanctions: AmbassadorDifferent views on Iran nuclear dealAt the same time, he said Germany still sees the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed with Iran in 2015, promising the country economic incentives in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, the best deal to prevent the country from developing an atomic weapon.Israel is against the deal, and the US pulled out unilaterally in 2018, leaving the others involved - Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China - struggling to keep it alive.Maas said concerns outside the JCPOA, like Iran's ballistic missile program and influence in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, need to be addressed, but that “we want to preserve the JCPOA to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”“Iran must change its approach in the region, we are not naive about Iran,” he said. “We know that Iran plays a dangerous role.”The two ministers met at the House of the Wannsee Conference memorial, a villa in southwestern Berlin where senior Nazis and bureaucrats coordinated plans for the Holocaust in 1942.Ashkenazi said that as the son of a Holocaust survivor, it was particularly emotional for him to visit the place where the “evil and cruelness” of the genocide of 6 million Jews was plotted.Maas said anti-Semitism still exists in Germany today, and the memorial serves as a reminder that “we should fight it with available means.”Opinion: A new Iran nuclear deal? Not so fast
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Iran arms embargo: Germany, Israel voice support for extension

Amid the stalled negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egypt gives priority to winning over Sudan in the dam crisis.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egypt lends helping hand to Sudan amid Nile dam talks