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Official statement says both feeling well, will isolate for 2-3 weeks; unclear if they'd been vaccinated; Israel reportedly funded shipment of Sputnik V doses to Syria last month
Pope Francis boards a plane upon concluding his visit to Iraq at Baghdad airport, Iraq, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) Pope Francis wraps up his historic whirlwind tour of Iraq that sought to bring hope to the country’s marginalized Christian minority with a message of coexistence, forgiveness and peace. The pontiff and his traveling delegation are seen off with a farewell ceremony at the Baghdad airport, from where he leaves for Rome following a four-day papal visit that has covered five provinces across Iraq. As the pope’s plane takes off, Iraqi President Barham Salih is at h...
Alarming abuse of Syrian aid leaves civilians vulnerable Chris Doyle A Red Crescent aid convoy in Douma, March 2018. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/gvqjm When you see refugee tents in Syria and Lebanon covered in icicles, it is hard to imagine these subhuman conditions. Meanwhile, more than 25,000 tents were either destroyed or damaged during recent floods, affecting 142,000 internally displaced people across 407 sites in northwest Syria. Many Syrians are so desperate they have taken to putting their organs, including kidneys, up for sale. So what can the outside world do? Aid to Syria...
comments Saad Aljabri, a former counter-terror chief and US ally in Riyadh, claims that 50 'Tiger Squad' hitmen were dispatched by Saudi monarch to kill him in Canada Lawyer for MbS told a federal court in Washington that not only was the complaint false but that the Crown Prince was protected by his sovereign status If State Department bows to Saudi demands it could lead to the dismissal of further lawsuits filed against MbS, including over Jamal Khashoggi's killing Trump has been a supporter of MbS, refusing to accuse him in Khashoggi's death Donald Trump's administration is considering...
By ELLEN KNICKMEYERDecember 22, 2020 GMT FILE - A supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad waves a Syrian flag as she looks over a crowd gathered to show support for their president in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Ten years ago, an uprising in Tunisia opened the way for a wave of popular revolts against authoritarian rulers across the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. For a brief window as leaders fell, it seemed the move toward greater democracy was irreversible. Instead, the region saw its most destructive decade of the modern era. Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq have been t...