by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 3, 2017 | Middle East
A Sudanese Red Crescent volunteer crossed the valleys of the Rudum area of South Darfur to rescue war refugees from southern Sudan, using a floating bridge made of barrels. Imad Abu Hala did not hesitate to leave his car, rent a carriage, and walk for two days to...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion
Washington graciously ‘reassured’ us the other day that the fate of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad is no longer a United States priority in dealing with the ongoing tragedy there. This message was conveyed by not one, but two foreign policy authorities, Secretary of State...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East
Air strikes hit Syrian Red Crescent offices in the northwestern city of Idlib after midnight on Wednesday, injuring several staff and causing extensive damage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Among those wounded in Wednesday’s raid was the...
by Nazeer Rida and Heba El-Koudsy | Sep 21, 2016 | Middle East
Beirut, New York-The U.S.-Russian ceasefire deal on Syria awaits to be announced as officially dead after violence resumed in the country when an aid vehicle of the Syrian Red Crescent was attacked in the countryside of west Aleppo, killing civilians and an official...
by Raneem Hanoush and Nayef al-Rasheed | Feb 3, 2016 | World
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Asharq Al-Awsat that the surge in the number of microcephaly cases and the Zika virus may just be coincidental in terms of time and place. He cautioned, however, that experts are not ruling anything out. “One of the curiosities...
