By Ali Abunimah on December 12, 2016
Israel has failed to launch a single criminal investigation for torture despite more than 1,000 complaints by victims since 2001. (more…)
By Finian Cunningham on December 20, 2016
The brutal slaying of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov in Ankara sent shockwaves around the world. Condemnations were issued by Washington and European states of the act of terrorism by a gunman who shot Karlov in the back while he was speaking at a photo gallery in the Turkish capital. (more…)
By Vanessa Beeley on December 20, 2016
Syrian child at Jibreen registration centre where civilians gather to register after the liberation of all of East Aleppo. Photo: Vanessa Beeley
Today, in Damascus, I met with Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media adviser to the Syrian President, Bashar Al Assad. Dr Shaaban is a woman of immense experience in the political sphere within Syria, she is a woman who expresses herself without filters and with tremendous wisdom and visible compassion for her country and her people. (more…)
December 12, 2016
Palestinian prominent former hunger striker and leader of the prisoners’ movement Bilal Kayed was released today, Monday, 12 December, after 15 years in Israeli prisons to the cheers and salutes of his family, friends and comrades in his home village of Asira al-Shamaliyeh, throughout Palestine and internationally. (more…)
By John Wight on December 6, 2016
The killing and wounding of Russian medical personnel in a rocket attack on a military field hospital in Aleppo raises again the question of who is actively lending support to the terrorists in Syria, people depicted in the West as ‘moderates’ in a monstrous inversion of the truth. (more…)
By Patrick Henningsen on December 8, 2016
As 21WIRE reported earlier this week, in a historic turning point in a five-year bloody conflict, the Syrian Arab Army liberated the Old City of Aleppo from the hands of occupying terrorists and armed militants. (more…)
December 3, 2016
In the month of November 2016, 527 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza were arrested, including 120 children and 11 women. 163 were arrested in Jerusalem (including 74 children) and 100 were arrested in al-Khalil. (more…)
By Eva Bartlett on November 29, 2016
Eastern Aleppo, Photo: Eva Bartlett
In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army. (more…)