Tag Archives: Middle East

Nous sommes entrés dans une ère nouvelle des relations internationales, dans laquelle les rapports de force entre les nations s’expriment de plus en plus brutalement et de façon décomplexée. Dans ce contexte de durcissement, perceptible dans son voisinage immédiat, l’Europe doit changer de posture.

For Ankara, rapprochement with Cairo is a must. With former US President Donald Trump gone the tougher policy towards Turkey Joe Biden has adopted will force Recep Tayyip Erdogan to revive relations with old hostile countries.

Iran’s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said, as the Foreign Office downplayed an Iranian state TV report saying Britain would pay a £400m debt to secure her release.

Une bousculade géante lors d'un pèlerinage juif orthodoxe dans le nord d'Israël a fait au moins 44 morts vendredi, ont annoncé les services de secours locaux. Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de personnes participaient à cet événement.

Hypocrisy. This is the first word that came to mind when I learned of the United Nation’s decision to appoint the Islamic Republic of Iran – a government with a proven history of discriminatiion against women and minorities – to its Commission on the Status of Women..

An annual Ramadan appeal to help displaced refugees receive lifesaving support and aid has seen people across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia make the highest number of donations in the region, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has told Al Arabiya English

La Turquie « rejette entièrement » la reconnaissance du génocide arménien par les Etats-Unis, a déclaré Mevlüt Çavusoglu, le ministre turc des affaires étrangères, quelques minutes après la déclaration du président Joe Biden, samedi 24 avril.

Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.

Les combats entre forces gouvernementales et rebelles à Marib au Yémen ont fait au moins 65 morts ces dernières 48 heures et les insurgés continuent de progresser dans cette province du nord du pays en guerre, ont indiqué des sources militaires gouvernementales dimanche.

Yemen is grappling with the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, and is on the brink of famine. About 80% of Yemen’s population – more than 24 million people – are in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children, according to Unicef. Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five will suffer acute malnutrition in 2021.