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Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani
Israeli strikes left Syria ‘stunned’ and makes normalization ‘difficult,’ foreign minister says
DAMASCUS – Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani told CNN Israeli strikes on Syria after the fall of the Assad regime “stunned” his country making discussions about normalization “difficult.”In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria at the Council on Foreign Relations, aired Sunday, al-Shibani criticized Israel for having “obstructed” the Syrian government when it faced a surge in sectarian violence in the south.The Syrian minister vowed that a “strong and unified Syria would be good for regional security, and that will benefit Israel.”The fall of Bashar al-Assad – a major ally of Israel’s arch-foe Iran – last December prompted a military response from Israel, which launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both...
September 29, 2025

Israeli strikes left Syria ‘stunned’ and makes normalization ‘difficult,’ foreign minister says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts at a press conference in Jerusalem in September
From diplomacy to soccer, Israel is becoming a pariah on the global stage
LONDON – Israel is becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage as the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza continue, with the backlash seeping into economic, cultural and sporting arenas.International condemnation has soared since Israel announced a ground assault on Gaza City and conducted an unprecedented strike against Hamas leadership on Qatari soil. It also comes as an independent UN inquiry concluded for the first time last week that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding that echoes those of other genocide experts and human rights groups, but which the Israeli government has rejected.Last week, the European Union – Israel’s biggest trading partner – proposed sanctions that would partially suspend its free trade agreement with Israel, if...
September 29, 2025

From diplomacy to soccer, Israel is becoming a pariah on the global stage

Delegates leave the General Assembly hall as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps up to the podium, 26 September, 2025
Delegates walk out on Netanyahu speech at UN
NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed international criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza, accusing world leaders of caving into “biased media, radical Islamist constituencies and anti-semitic mobs” during his speech at the UN General Assembly.Scores of delegates just walked out of the United Nations General Assembly as Netanyahu began his speech.Some people could be heard applauding the Israeli premier ahead of the speech, which came after US President Donald Trump saud he would not allow Israel to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Addressing the ongoing war in Gaza, Netanyahu said global support for Israel in the aftermath of the October 7 attack “quickly evaporated when Israel did what any self-respecting nation would do in the wake of such a savage...
September 26, 2025

Delegates walk out on Netanyahu speech at UN

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Trump says he 'will not allow' Netanyahu to annex West Bank
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has said he will not allow Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Speaking ahead of the Israeli prime minister's address to the UN General Assembly on Friday, the US president told reporters in the Oval Office: "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank ... It's not going to happen."Trump, who will meet Netanyahu on Monday, also said a Gaza deal was "pretty close".Israel is facing increasing global pressure to end the war in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank as a wave of Western states formally recognise an independent Palestinian state. Far-right Israelis see annexation as a way to stop this prospect.Ultranationalists in Netanyahu's governing coalition have repeated calls for Israel to...
September 26, 2025

Trump says he 'will not allow' Netanyahu to annex West Bank

Tony Blair
Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority
LONDON – Former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has been involved in discussions about leading a post-war transitional authority in Gaza.The proposal, which is said to have backing from the White House, would see Blair lead a governing authority supported by the UN and Gulf nations – before handing control back to Palestinians.His office said he would not support any proposal that displaced the people of Gaza.Sir Tony, who took the UK into the Iraq War in 2003, has been part of high-level planning talks with the US and other parties about the future of Gaza.In August, he joined a White House meeting with Trump to discuss plans for the territory, which US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff described as "very comprehensive" – though little else was disclosed about the...
September 26, 2025

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority

Majd Alshaghnobi underwent facial reconstruction surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London,
Gazan teenage medical evacuee offers a glimpse into the horrors of Israel’s war on children
LONDON – At first, health workers thought Majd Alshaghnobi had been killed.He was waiting to collect flour, like so many children in northern Gaza, when Israeli shrapnel tore through his face at the Kuwait Roundabout in February 2024, inflicting a blast injury on his jaw and lower mouth.“Someone had dragged me and took me to safety,” the 15-year-old boy told CNN on Monday. “I was put in the morgue refrigerator, because they thought I was dead. But then I moved my hand and alerted them to the fact that I was alive.”Palestinian doctors whisked him away before sewing up his wounds in a kitchen because there were not enough operating rooms at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, Gaza City – in a fraught scene of impossible triage and medical improvisation replicated across the strip....
September 26, 2025

Gazan teenage medical evacuee offers a glimpse into the horrors of Israel’s war on children

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaks to CNN in Doha
Senior Hamas official defends ‘high price’ of Oct 7 for Palestinians, saying attack created ‘golden moment’
DOHA — A senior Hamas official has defended carrying out the deadly October 7 attacks on Israel, telling CNN that it created a “golden moment” for the Palestinian cause despite the tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza.In a wide-ranging interview in Doha, two weeks after surviving an Israeli air-strike on a Hamas compound in the Qatari capital, Ghazi Hamad highlighted growing international condemnation of Israel’s offensive in Gaza and the spate of countries who have recognized Palestinian statehood. He was unapologetic about the consequences for Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who have borne the brunt of Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza.“You know what is the benefit of October 7th now? ...If you look to the (United Nations) General Assembly yesterday, when about 194 people...
September 26, 2025

Senior Hamas official defends ‘high price’ of Oct 7 for Palestinians, saying attack created ‘golden moment’

Palestinians survey the aftermath of an Israeli military strike on the Abu Dahrouj family home in Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025
At least 17 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as Western leaders ramp up pressure for ceasefire
GAZA CITY – At least 17 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Thursday, according to local health officials, who feare dozens more could be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.According to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, at least 12 people, including eight children, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent and a house in the central town of Zawaida.While in the southern city of Khan Younis, another Israeli strike hit an apartment building, killing four people, according to the Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were taken.The hospital said another girl was killed, with dozens injured, in an airstrike that hit a tent in Deir al-Balah.The latest deaths come as Israel continues its renewed offensive to seize Gaza City which Israeli officials say is a main hub for Hamas...
September 26, 2025

At least 17 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as Western leaders ramp up pressure for ceasefire

Migrants rescued south of Crete after making the journey from Libya walk after their arrival at the port of Lavrio, 10 July, 2025
Bodies of five suspected migrants found in desert in northern Libya, aid groups say
TRIPOLI – The decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants have been recovered in eastern Libya, local aid groups said on Thursday.Recovery crews worked with local authorities to recover the remains which were located around 550 kilometres south of Tobruk, in an area called the Great Sand Sea.The recovered remains were taken to Tobruk, according to the Red Crescent. It said that one of the "tragedies that embody the grave dangers faced by migrants traveling through the desert, the so-called 'death journey.'"Abreen, a local aid group that tracks migrant deaths in Libya, said in a statement that the remains were likely of migrants from Sudan.The group posted photos of the recovery operation, including one that showed the clothing of a decomposed body.Libya, which shares...
September 26, 2025

Bodies of five suspected migrants found in desert in northern Libya, aid groups say

Road signs point to the currently closed Allenby Bridge Crossing between West Bank and Jordan, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing
JERUSALEM – Israel has closed the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and neighbouring Jordan, stopping more than two million Palestinians from accessing the outside world.The Israeli airports authority, which oversees the Allenby Bridge crossing, said it would be closed indefinitely from Wednesday morning "at the direction of the political leadership". It did not provide a reason.The closure has stranded many Palestinians in the West Bank, who are unable to go on planned trips abroad. Those who are abroad have been unable to travel home.It comes days after two Israeli military personnel were shot dead near the crossing by a Jordanian gunman, who was killed at the scene.It was briefly shut following that incident but had since reopened.Prominent Palestinian...
September 25, 2025

Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing

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