May 2, 2016
The workers set at least seven buses on fire to protest Binladen construction group firing of at least 70,000 laborers after six months of no pay.
Foreign workers at one of Saudi Arabia’s largest construction companies, Binladin group, set fire to at least seven buses in protest of being fired from their work after not being paid for more than six months, local media reported Sunday. (more…)
By Daniel McAdams on April 24, 2016
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that tomorrow (Monday) President Obama will announce that he is quintupling the number of US troops inside Syria. (more…)
April 22, 2016
Elor Azria, charged with manslaughter, is greeted by friends and family after being released from custody for Jewish holiday (more…)
April 10, 2106
Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) destroyed 523 Palestinian homes and civilian structures in the West Bank since the start of 2016, with an increase of 275% from last year, a Palestinian center reported Sunday. (more…)
April 14, 2016
Palestinian prisoner Shukri Khawaja, who has been held in solitary confinement for the past sixteen months, continued his hunger strike against isolation. 55 Palestinian prisoners have also continued hunger strikes in solidarity with Khawaja, demanding an end to long-term solitary confinement, (more…)
Friends decline my invitations and I have taken to sleeping outside under the trees, to avoid becoming a magnet of death for my family
Malik Jalal on Tuesday 12 April 2016
There have been 255 drone strikes on Pakistan since 2004
I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. (more…)
By Felicity Arbuthnot on April 8, 2016
It is hard to imagine that anything worse could befall Fallujah after the war crimes and criminal assaults by the US military in 2004. At the time, one correspondent wrote: “There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – (more…)
April 9, 2016
Ruins of homes left empty from the Deir Yassin Massacre, 1986. (Photo: deiryassinremembered.org)
Palestinians on Saturday marked the 68th anniversary of the massacre of more than 100 Palestinians civilians carried out by Zionist paramilitary groups in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948 prior to the establishment of Israel. (more…)