Middle East
Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade
March 24, 2022
Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade
(CNN)The Taliban prevented girls above the 6th grade in Afghanistan from making their much-anticipated return to school on Wednesday. Just hours after schools for…
Detainee in Iran with triple nationality who was released as part of deal with UK is sent back to jail
March 24, 2022
Detainee in Iran with triple nationality who was released as part of deal with UK is sent back to jail
Tehran, Iran (CNN)One of the three detained British-Iranians who were released as part of a deal signed by the UK…
Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade
March 23, 2022
Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade
(CNN) – The Taliban prevented girls above the 6th grade in Afghanistan from making their much-anticipated return to school on…
How dual nationals became pawns in Iran’s fight with the West
March 22, 2022
How dual nationals became pawns in Iran’s fight with the West
Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) – Just days after her release from detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe took to the microphones…
Iran’s strike on Iraq puts US in awkward position amid nuclear talks
March 20, 2022
Iran’s strike on Iraq puts US in awkward position amid nuclear talks
Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) – The United States appears to be keen to tell the world that it wasn’t the…
Syrians are watching in horror as Putin deploys the Aleppo playbook in Ukraine
March 20, 2022
Syrians are watching in horror as Putin deploys the Aleppo playbook in Ukraine
Istanbul (CNN) – Abdel Kafi al-Hamdo cannot get Ukraine out of his mind. The 36-year-old Syrian spends his days following…
Turkey opens record-breaking bridge between Europe and Asia
March 19, 2022
Turkey opens record-breaking bridge between Europe and Asia
Istanbul (Reuters) — President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait on Friday, the latest in…
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day, the biggest mass execution in decades
March 18, 2022
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day, the biggest mass execution in decades
(Reuters)Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on Saturday, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, for terrorism and other offenses including holding “deviant…
Missiles hit Kurdish capital in Iraq, no casualties, officials say
March 18, 2022
Missiles hit Kurdish capital in Iraq, no casualties, officials say
(CNN)A dozen ballistic missiles struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil early Sunday morning, local officials said. The missiles were…
How the Ukraine war revealed Europe’s selective empathy on refugees
March 17, 2022
How the Ukraine war revealed Europe’s selective empathy on refugees
Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)The West has shown unprecedented coordination and unity in its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Governments,…