Posts Tagged ‘escalated’

Why have tensions escalated in Jerusalem?

More than 200 Palestinians and 17 Israeli officers were injured in Jerusalem on Friday. The violence took place after thousands of worshippers gathered at Al-Aqsa mosque for their weekly Friday prayers and were met with a heavy police presence. Israel’s police forces fired rubber bullets and grenades and made arrests. It comes after nightly protests […]

Biden Claimed He Was Ending The Yemen War, Yet It Has Only Escalated – So What About Afghanistan?

In early February US President Joe Biden made it clear, as part of his first speech on his administration’s foreign policy initiatives, that he aimed to end the war in Yemen. Now, months later, not only has this promise begun to fade away and with it media attention to the issue, but the war has […]

Rights group: Israeli human rights violations escalated in 2020

2020 was a dismal year for human rights in Palestine, as Israel tightened its grip on the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) through escalated attacks on Palestinians and their property and the introduction of new laws to further limit Palestinian rights, all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new field report from Palestinian human […]

Damascus and Moscow Slam Escalated US Aggression in Syria

By Stephen Lendman Source On Thursday, Biden regime terror-bombing strikes in Syria showed his contempt for the rule of law and unbending hostility toward Damascus and Tehran. It also showed the illusion of his diplomatic outreach to Iran, an act of rhetorical head-fake deception with no policy action follow-through. On Thursday, Blinken’s spokesman Price pretended […]

Iran, Afghanistan sign two cooperation deals

Iran and Afghanistan signed two cooperation deals on sports, and tourism and cultural heritage in a ceremony attended by First Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri and Afghan Chief Executive Office Abdullah Abdullah. Jahangiri said after the ceremony that the volume of annual trade transactions between the two neighbors stands at $2.5 billion, adding that he and […]

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