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Maazouze, the mother of Mohammed Allaan, a Palestinian prisoner who is on a long-term hunger strike, holds a portrait of her son during a rally calling for his release in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. (Getty Images)

Palestine: Negotiations to End Prisoners’ Hunger Strike before Trump’s Visit

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – Following reports of a mass health collapse and successive fainting, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs demanded that Palestinian prisoners who entered their 28th day on hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Sunday be hospitalized, as their...

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A nurse attends to a boy infected with cholera at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad

8,500 Potential Cholera Patients Indicate Serious Outbreak in Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Aden- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday the cholera outbreak has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill between April 27 and Saturday. “We now are facing a serious outbreak of cholera,” Dominik Stillhart, the director of...

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A civil defense member breathes through an oxygen mask after a gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Reuters)

ICRC Regional Director Warns of Refugee Crisis: Syria is now the Greatest Tragedy

by Caroline Akoum | Apr 6, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Regional Director for the Near and Middle East at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Robert Mardini stressed the need for the warring parties in Syria to respect the International Humanitarian Law, which is the most important demand in...

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People who fled fighting in South Sudan are seen walking at sunset on arrival at Bidi Bidi refugee resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda December 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

Sudan: SPLM Releases 125 Prisoners of War

by Ahmed Younes and Mustafa Sirri | Mar 6, 2017 | World

Khartoum, London – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement announced it has freed 132 prisoners of war it had captured while fighting with government forces in Blue Nile and South Kordofan in 2011. Sudanese army said that only 125 persons have been freed, but it...

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Houthi rebels chant slogans after taking over a government military compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2015. Hani Mohammed/AP

Yemeni Government: Unilateral Measures Taken by Rebels Hamper Political Process

by Asmaa Al-Ghaberi and Abdul Hadi Habtor | Oct 4, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah, Riyadh, Aden – The Yemeni government said on Monday that unilateral measures taken by the Houthi rebels would escalate the situation and hamper the political process in the war-torn country. During a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Mathew Tueller, Yemeni...