More than 63,000 people dead or missing while migrating over last decade, IOM says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters At least 63,285 people have perished or disappeared on migration routes around the world between 2014 and 2023, with most deaths caused by drowning, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. A report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on its Missing Migrants Project showed that the majority of deaths […]
Essay: Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?
GREG BARTON, professor of global Islamic politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute in Australia, looks at the context for the mass shooting at a Moscow concert on Friday night…
UN nuclear watchdog chief visits Syria to restart talks
Damascus, Syria Reuters UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said he visited Damascus on Tuesday to restart talks focused on fostering confidence in the peaceful use of atomic energy by Syria. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad meets with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi in Damascus, Syria, on 19th March, 2024. PICTURE: SANA/Handout […]
Chemical weapons watchdog blames Islamic State for 2015 Syria attack
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reuters The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Thursday identified Islamic State militants in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the likely perpetrator of a chemical weapons attack in Marea, Syria, on 1st September, 2015. There were “reasonable grounds to believe that on 1 September 2015, during sustained attacks aimed at capturing […]
Syria allows UN to keep delivering aid from Turkey
Washington DC, US Reuters Syria has extended permission for the United Nations to deliver aid to opposition-held areas in the north-west of the country via two Turkish border crossings for another three months, said Syria’s UN envoy. Humanitarian aid is prepared to be delivered to Syria, in the town of Ramtha, Jordan, on 2nd July, […]
One year on: Turkey earthquake survivors struggle to rebuild their lives
BURCU KARAKAS and CEYDA CAGLAYAN, of Reuters, report from Hatay in Turkey…
US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq, Syria; nearly 40 reported killed
Washington DC, US/Baghdad, Iraq Reuters The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and militias it backs, reportedly killing nearly 40 people, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops. The strikes, which included the use of long-range B-1 bombers flown from the […]
US starts retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran-linked targets
Washington DC, US Reuters The US military launched airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the militias it backs, in retaliation for last weekend’s attack in Jordan that killed three US troops. The strikes, which included the use of long-range B-1 bombers flown from […]
US said to back strikes on Iran targets in Iraq, Syria as Gaza truce hopes rise
Washington DC, US Reuters The planned targets for US strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the killing of three US soldiers by a drone in Jordan include “Iranian personnel and facilities”, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing American officials. The United States has assessed that the drone, which also wounded more than 40 […]
Cyprus rescues 60 Syrian migrants from boat, children found unconscious
Nicosia, Cyprus Reuters Sixty Syrian migrants were rescued from a small boat off Cyprus on Wednesday after being stranded at sea for days, including three children and a man who were found unconscious on board, Cypriot authorities said. Authorities scrambled rescue helicopters and patrol vessels after a merchant vessel reported seeing a small wooden fishing […]