Mohamed Khameri

The European Union promised more than 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on Monday to support displaced Syrians, but it dismissed any notion of them being able to return home because of instability under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Before an EU-led donor conference on the 13-year-old war, Jordan’s foreign minister said that the international community was […]

Prince Hussein said peace was unachievable as long as the Palestinian people were not granted their rights [Getty/file photo] Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah said Sunday that his country was in a “diplomatic and political battle” with Israel, as he cast doubt on normalisation and peace agreements between Arab states and Israel. In a

Over 5 million refugees mostly in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan and millions more displaced internally still have little prospect of returning home [GETTY] The international community is abandoning Syrian refugees as funding to support them in host countries dwindles, Jordan’s foreign minister said on Monday ahead of the EU-led donor conference over the 13-year-old war.

Israel has launched a campaign to frame UNRWA as being in league with Hamas [Getty] The Israeli parliament will hold a preliminary vote designating the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA as a terrorist organisation, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The Knesset will vote in the first reading on the bill on Wednesday, the report said. If

Labaki made the comments during the film festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday [Getty] Oscar-nominated Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki used her platform at the Cannes Film Festival to make an emotional speech about Israel’s war on Gaza, without naming it. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival where she was a jury

The OPEC+ group of oil producers, comprising the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, has pushed back its output policy meeting by a day to June 2. The meeting was to have been in Vienna on June 1, but will now be held online a day later, OPEC said on Friday. For

There are fears that IS is building its forces back up in regime-held areas of Syria [Getty] Five members of militias loyal to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed in an attack by the Islamic State group (IS) in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on Sunday. The deadly attack was the result of

Gut-wrenching images coming out of Rafah Sunday evening stunned the world [Getty] Palestinian, Arab and world officials have condemned the horrifying Israeli attack on Rafah on Sunday which killed dozens of civilians in what was supposedly a “safe zone” for those displaced by the war. Disturbing images of charred bodies and beheaded babies shocked the world

An Indian lawmaker allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party said he will return to India by Friday to face allegations of rape and sexual harassment made against him. Prajwal Revanna, 33, the grandson of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, is a member of parliament from the Hassan constituency in the southern

Police in eastern Pakistan arrested dozens of Muslim men and charged them with attacking a Christian father and son on allegations of desecrating pages of Islam’s holy book, officials said Monday. The mob went on a rampage Saturday after locals saw burnt pages of the Quran outside the two Christian men’s house and accused the