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Syria: IS militants hold dozens hostage in police station raid Syrias desert region has seen an uptick in kidnappings from Islamic State fighters who have been dormant since groups downfall Iraqi police hold an Islamic State flag in the Old City of Mosul after taking control of the city from IS militants (Reuters) By Published date: 8 April 2021 11:58 UTC | Last update: 4 sec ago Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria have kidnapped doz...

Ian Borg ministry wants Mgarr road to get its Via Sagra The transport ministry led by Ian Borg is requesting a planning permit for a government project that blurs the line with popular religiosity 8 April 2021, 8:00am by James Debono The transport ministry led by Ian Borg is requesting a planning permit for a government project that blurs the line with popular religiosity: a ‘way of the cross’ along Triq ir-Ruħ in the form of 14 permanent tableaux. The 14 commemorative slabs will be set i...

Aleppo expands as displaced population grows Massive displacement from the war has brought thousands of Syrians north, and with them urban expansion. The sun sets over a displacement camp near Deir al-Ballut in the Afrin countryside, in Syrias Aleppo province near the border with Turkey, on Dec. 5, 2020. April 8, 2021 The rural areas to the east and north of Aleppo are seeing urban sprawl as residential construction skyrockets. The areas under the control of the Turkish-backed Syrian Na...

Maintenance of international peace and security: Mine action and sustaining peace: Stronger partnerships for better delivery Format Statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the United Nations Security Council. Thank you for convening this important discussion today. It offers an opportunity to rekindle the attention and resources to global mine action, an area in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has direct experience as a humanitarian organization an...

The international community must redouble its efforts to address the challenges facing mine action Maintenance of international peace and security: Mine action and sustaining peace: Stronger partnerships for better delivery, statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the United Nations Security Council. Statement 08 April 2021 Thank you for convening this important discussion today. It offers an opportunity to rekindle the attention and resources to global mine action, an are...

First pharmaceutical factory opens in Syrian opposition area The first pharmaceutical factory in the opposition-controlled areas in northwestern Syria was inaugurated, in a bid to address the lack of medicines and high prices. An employee of a Syrian pharmaceutical factory shows packs of the hydroxychloroquine drug in the government-controlled city of Homs, Syria, April 28, 2020. April 8, 2021 ALEPPO, Syria — The Sharan subdistrict of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo opened M...

In a nearby town, a woman with a son suffering from kidney failure makes her  children take turns eating on alternate days. In a village outside Aleppo in northern Syria, people say they are living mainly on wild greens. Aid workers say that Syrian refugee children are arriving in northern Lebanon thin and stunted, and that suspected malnutrition cases are surfacing from rebel-held areas in northern Syria to government-held suburbs south of Damascus. A boy, at a Syrian refugee camp near the b...

ACLED Regional Overview – Middle East (27 March-2 April 2021) Format Last week in the Middle East, intense fighting was reported in Yemen’s Marib and Hodeidah governorates, whereas clashes decreased in Taizz and Hajjah. Meanwhile, Houthi forces claim to have targeted Saudi Arabia with four drones. In Bahrain, demonstrations spiked over concerns for prisoners amid an outbreak of the coronavirus at Jaw prison. In Syria, a large scale security operation was launched by the Syrian Democratic Fo...

Questions about BBC producers ties to UK intelligence follow Mayday White Helmets whitewash Published: April 8, 2021 The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while blaming critics for his demise. Was she a channel for a wider British intelligence operation? White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier falling to his death from the top floor of his Istanbul home in uncertain circumstances in November 2019 cre...

US President Biden shines harsh spotlight on Uganda April 7, 2021 An injured protestor US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks recently while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath o...