Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished a shop and an apartment in the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local residents, Anadolu Agency reported. Israeli authorities cited lack of building permits for razing the two structures in al-Bustan and Al-Suwayeh quarters in the neighborhood, the residents said. The demolitions have triggered clashes between angry […]
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Israel razes Bedouin campsite in largest West Bank demolition in a decade
Israeli bulldozers flanked by soldiers demolished a small Bedouin village in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, rendering around 73 Palestinians — including 41 children — homeless, according to the United Nations. International observers visited Khirbet Humsa, close to the West Bank city of Tubas, on Wednesday, finding destroyed tents, smashed […]
Saudi razes hundreds of houses in Shia-majority town
Press TV- Saudi Arabia has reportedly laid waste to at least 320 houses in an eastern Shia-majority town, which it has placed under siege for about three months. Local activists reported the figure on Monday, saying the structures in Awamiyah had mostly been populated by Shia Muslims. They said Saudi forces also flattened four mosques […]
First-hand look at ancient site of liberated Palmyra (VIDEO)
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Palmyra is currently so overwhelmed with bombs left by Islamic State (Is, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists that an explosion could damage even armored vehicles, experts working at the site told RT Arabic’s Abutaleb Albuhaya. READ MORE: Russia to send robots, engineers to Syria to help demine Palmyra RT crew managed to […]
Turkey keeps shelling Kurds, backing terrorist groups in Syria – Russian MoD
Ankara bears responsibility for the ongoing ceasefire violations in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, the head of the Russian ceasefire monitoring center Lt. Gen. Sergey Kuralenko told journalists at a briefing on March 4. Militants continue to freely cross the Turkish-Syrian border, Kuralenko noted, presenting the latest reconnaissance video featuring a “large terrorist […]
Pro-Israel group wants to send army colonel to your campus to explain battle for west’s ‘way of life’
Hi everyone, I’m a general in an army which, despite having free access to the best weaponry US taxpayers’ money can buy, hasn’t won a war since 1973. And this isn’t for the want of trying – au contraire, we’ve fought 4 wars in the past decade alone, and even though our enemies were local […]