Month: January 1970

Israeli strikes on Gaza continued for the 10th consecutive day Wednesday, as pressure builds for a ceasefire to halt the conflict.

Over the last nine days, thousands of rockets have been fired from Gaza towards Israeli territory. And every day they’ve been met by missiles from Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.

The Taliban banned women from being journalists in Afghanistan. Now the country has an all-female television network.

Five women talk to CNN about their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment while participating in the pilgrimage.

Medical facilities supported by Doctors without Borders have received over 1,000 dead and 4,800 wounded in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta in just two weeks.

Attacks on Syrian health care facilities have spiked in recent weeks, the World Health Organization said Friday, mostly in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus.

Turkish forces are poised to enter the center of the Kurdish-held Syrian city of Afrin “at any moment,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Friday.

The Syrian regime captured the central town of Misraba in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta Saturday, after “hysterical” bombardment according to activists on the ground.

Saudi Arabia has replaced a number of top military commanders in a late-night political reshuffle Monday that saw the country’s monarch issue 39 royal decrees.

Israel and the Palestinian territories were bracing for a potentially tense day of protests and strikes Tuesday, as both sides prepare to bury the victims of the deadliest violence the … Read More