Middle East Experience

A founding member of the EU, Italy was once one of its most fervent advocates.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Italy's Salvini attacks Juncker, hopes for change in 2019

Thousands of women and children who lived with the group have been accused of being accomplices..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: ISIL fighters’ families held against their will in Iraq

City's mayor, Nir Barkat, says cut in US aid creates 'rare opportunity' to replace UNRWA with Jerusalem municipality..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Jerusalem to remove UNRWA to 'end lie of Palestine refugees'

Head of a UN-mandated team of investigators on Yemen says the UAE interfered in his panel's work..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Saudi-UAE alliance 'interfered' in UN panel's work in Yemen

A 14-year-old boy is among two Palestinians killed on Friday during weekly protests in Gaza..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Two Palestinians killed as Israeli army fires on Gaza protests

Responding to a European Parliament resolution condemning the harassment, persecution and detention of prominent human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, who was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in May 2018 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East research director, said:.
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: UAE: International community must step up pressure on the UAE authorities to release Ahmed Mansoor

Saudi Arabia has expressed considerable interest, through its sovereign wealth fund, in Elon Musk’s Tesla in recent months. But the Saudi Crown Prince is unlikely to be in a Tesla driving seat
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Would the Saudi Crown Prince ever drive a Tesla? ‘Maybe tomorrow, not today’

Houthi militiamen in Yemen on Saturday closed down the University of Sanaa, and deployed tanks and armored vehicles around the building to intimidate the students, according to an Al Arabiya
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Houthis barricade Yemen’s Sanaa university and kidnap 55 students

A Muslim girl was tied to a tree and flogged mercilessly by a group of villagers in India’s Bihar state earlier this week for eloping with a Hindu boy. The young girl, daughter of Mohammad
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Indian Muslim girl tied to tree, flogged ‘for falling in love with Hindu boy’

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman described the kingdom's ambitious mega project NEOM on the Red Sea as “a small country in a big country,” in an interview with
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Saudi Crown Prince: First town in NEOM will be ready by 2020