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Chancellor Friedrich Merz, pictured earlier this week, and other conservatives in his coalition cabinet are calling for their repatriation
Syrian migrants in Germany face uncertain future as government floats repatriation
BERLIN — When Germany opened its doors to refugees escaping war in the Middle East, more people arrived from Syria than any other country – finding homes, getting jobs, starting families.A question mark now hangs over their future, after Germany’s government – which has hardened its stance on immigration amid a surging far right – suggested it could be time for some to return home, voluntarily or not.Some 1 million Syrians arrived in Germany at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015-2016, under former chancellor Angela Merkel. Approximately 1.3 million live in Germany currently, including 25,000 who were born there.Now, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other conservatives in his coalition cabinet are calling for their repatriation.Merz this week said that Berlin would approach the...
November 10, 2025

Syrian migrants in Germany face uncertain future as government floats repatriation

Eight Palestinians injured in attacks by Israeli settlers in West Bank and East Jerusalem
RAMALLAH — Eight Palestinians were injured Sunday in a series of assaults by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to local rights groups and residents. The Bedouin rights group Al-Baidar said settlers attacked the Al-Arara Bedouin community north of occupied East Jerusalem with stones and sticks, injuring seven people. The attackers also burned container homes and caused significant property damage. Al-Baidar warned that the ongoing assaults pose “a direct threat to the stability of the people and their presence on their lands and pave the way for forced displacement.” In the southern West Bank, settlers assaulted Palestinians in the Umm al-Khair village of Hebron while they were working on their land, local sources told Anadolu. One young...
November 09, 2025

Eight Palestinians injured in attacks by Israeli settlers in West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israeli strike kills one in southern Lebanon amid rising cross-border tensions
BEIRUT — One person was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said, marking the latest breach of a ceasefire in place since November 2024. The ministry said the fatality occurred in an attack targeting an area between Al-Sawwaneh and Khirbet Selm in the Bint Jbeil district. According to the state-run National News Agency (NNA), an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a pickup truck in the area. NNA also reported low-altitude Israeli drone flights over the Tyre district, Nabatieh province, the Iqlim Al-Tuffah region, and several areas of Bint Jbeil. Israeli ground forces carried out a combing operation with heavy weaponry on the outskirts of Alma Al-Shaab in Tyre. Tensions have been escalating in southern Lebanon for weeks, with Israel carrying out...
November 09, 2025

Israeli strike kills one in southern Lebanon amid rising cross-border tensions

Iraq begins special voting for security forces and displaced citizens ahead of elections
BAGHDAD — Iraq launched its special voting process on Sunday, allowing more than one million military personnel and thousands of internally displaced citizens to cast ballots ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) and will operate until 6 p.m. (1500 GMT). The Iraqi News Agency (INA) said more than 1.3 million members of the army and security forces are eligible to vote across 809 polling centers containing 4,501 stations nationwide. The early voting enables security personnel — who will be responsible for protecting polling centers on Nov. 11, the day of general voting — to exercise their constitutional right. In addition to the security forces, 26,538 internally displaced Iraqis are expected to vote on Sunday at 97...
November 09, 2025

Iraq begins special voting for security forces and displaced citizens ahead of elections

Umm Shukry has tended to her olive trees for 10 years. This olive harvest, she was prevented from accessing her land because of settler attacks
West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest
HAMRA, West Bank — Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.Examining each limb, she feels exhausted with sorrow.“I am suffocated. I am suffocated from seeing my hard work turn out like this,” she told CNN. “I used to spend so much time here under the scorching heat, taking care of them… we’ve had this land for over 50 years.”For the past two years, the 72-year-old has been prevented from accessing her land, cut off by settler violence and Israeli army restrictions. It sits opposite an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley. The Israeli settlers living there have assaulted and threatened her family,...
November 07, 2025

West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa
UN lifts sanctions on Syrian president ahead of White House visit
NEW YORK — The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a US resolution to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of his White House visit next week.Sharaa was named transitional president after leading a rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, ending 13 years of civil war.Washington's ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the UN had sent a "strong political signal" that recognized Syria was in a "new era" since Assad was deposed.Sharaa was under UN sanctions as the leader of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which was formerly linked to al-Qaeda. The US removed HTS from a list of foreign terror groups in July.The UN also removed sanctions on Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab.Syria's foreign minister welcomed the removal...
November 07, 2025

UN lifts sanctions on Syrian president ahead of White House visit

Buildings in Gaza City have been reduced to grey, dusty rubble
Gaza in total devastation after two years of war
GAZA CITY — The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees, from Beit Hanoun on one side to Gaza City on the other.Beyond the distant shapes of buildings still standing inside Gaza City, there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighborhoods that once held tens of thousands of people.This was one of the first areas Israeli ground troops entered in the early weeks of the war. Since then they have been back multiple times, as Hamas regrouped around its strongholds in the area.Israel does not allow news organisations to report independently from Gaza. Today it took a group of journalists, including the BBC, into the area of the Strip occupied by Israeli forces.The brief visit was...
November 06, 2025

Gaza in total devastation after two years of war

Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been freed after being detained in Iran since May 2022
Iran releases two French nationals from detention
TEHRAN — Iran has released two French nationals who were detained there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.Cécile Kohler, 41 and her partner Jacques Paris, 72, have been released from Evin prison, Macron said on Tuesday, with France's foreign minister later confirming they were "safe" at the embassy in Tehran "ahead of their final release"."I welcome this first step. The dialogue continues to allow for their return to France as quickly as possible," Macron said.The pair, who were arrested in May 2022 during a tourist trip, are believed to be the last French nationals held in Iran.Last month, they were found guilty of spying on behalf of both France and Israel, and were handed lengthy prison sentences, according to Iranian state media reports.A...
November 05, 2025

Iran releases two French nationals from detention

IDF Israel Defense Forces (IDF) handout photo showing its former Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-YerushalmiIDF
Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens
JERUSALEM — The former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested, as a political showdown deepens over the leaking of a video that allegedly shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers.Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned as the Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last week, saying that she took full responsibility for the leak.On Sunday, the story took a darker turn when she was reported as missing, with police mounting an hours-long search for her on a beach north of Tel Aviv.She was subsequently found alive and well, police said, but was then taken into custody.The fallout from the leaked video is intensifying by the day.Broadcast in August 2024 on an Israeli news channel, the footage shows reserve soldiers at the Sde Teiman...
November 03, 2025

Israeli military's ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens

A stone sculpture of a high-ranking official from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III
Netherlands to return stolen ancient sculpture to Egypt
AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt.It is "highly likely" the stone head, dating from the time of the pharaohs, was plundered during the Arab Spring in either 2011 or 2012, according to the Dutch Information & Heritage Inspectorate.A decade later, it turned up at an arts and antiques fair in Maastricht and, following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally.Dutch outgoing prime minister Dick Schoof made the pledge to hand it back as he attended the opening of the archaeological Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza this weekend.The Dutch government said the sculpture of a high-ranking official from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III is "deeply meaningful to Egypt's identity".The...
November 03, 2025

Netherlands to return stolen ancient sculpture to Egypt

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