by Caroline Akoum, Paula Astih | Dec 16, 2016 | Middle East
Beirut – It’s the “dream” day which turned into a nightmare. It’s the day of the “big departure” from destroyed Aleppo, after a tight siege ended through forced deportation of tens of thousands of families. And at a time when Iran’s conditions...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 22, 2016 | Middle East
U.N. aid convoys resumed on Thursday aid delivery to besieged areas in Syria after a 48-hour suspension to review security guarantees following a deadly attack on relief trucks and a warehouse near Aleppo, a U.N. spokesman said. “Today we are sending an...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 1, 2016 | Middle East
Baghdad – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged the Iraqi Army leadership to prevent militias with a significant record of human rights abuses from participating in the planned liberation of Mosul from ISIS. Iraqi officials expect Mosul operation to start...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 23, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Despite a nearly month-old US-Russia engineered ceasefire agreement, aid deliveries to besieged areas of Syria remain hard to make, said a Red Cross spokesman on Wednesday, calling for more regular access to those in need of help. Since the start of the cessation of...
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...
