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# middle-east - Friday 17 May, 2013
Turkey and US demand Assad stand down
The US President and Turkish Prime Minister met in Washington to discuss Syria’s ongoing, bloody conflict.
# middle-east - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Israel approves 296 West Bank settler homes
The announcement comes just two days after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a freeze on tenders for new settler homes in a bid to give a chance to US-led efforts to revive peace talks.
# middle-east - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Israel PM freezes tenders for new West Bank settler homes
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a freeze on publishing tenders for new West Bank settler homes to avoid hampering US efforts to renew peace talks, according to Israeli army radio reports.
# middle-east - Monday 6 May, 2013
Israeli PM visits China after Syria strikes
Benjamin Netanyahu’s signalling of a return to “business as usual” may indicate that Israel does not expect an immediate retaliation for this weekend’s airstrikes.
# middle-east - Sunday 5 May, 2013
Israel hits military research centre in Syria in second attack
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
# middle-east - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Syrian refugees ‘now make up 10 per cent of population of Lebanon’
Oxfam said the figure is comparable to the entire population of Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Derry all moving to Dublin.
# middle-east - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Column: The EU must do more to help resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict
The EU has considerable leverage in the region, yet is taking a back-seat to the US – which dithers as relations in the region break-down. It’s time for a change, writes Emer Costello MEP.
# middle-east - Friday 26 April, 2013
Wave of violence kills more than 180 in Iraq
Sectarian violence erupted three days ago when demonstrations were held in Sunni areas over their treatment by the Shiite-majority authorities.
# middle-east - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Column: For women giving birth in a war zone, I was more than just a midwife
Tens of thousands have died in the ongoing, bloody conflict in Syria to date – and those who remain live under constant threat of violence. Midwife Cathy Janssens writes about trying to bring new life into the world in such unstable circumstances.
# middle-east - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Assad warns of ‘instability’ across region if regime falls
Assad has said the fall of his regime would cause a “domino effect” that would lead to years of instability in the Middle East.
# middle-east - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Study finds 26 Irish people have fought in Syria
Researchers in London found that between 2,000 and 5,500 people from other countries have joined the rebel forces to fight against the Assad regime.
# middle-east - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you work your way into Wednesday.
# middle-east - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Dublin takes part in worldwide Persian festival for first time
Nowruz is a traditional festival to mark spring – and last night people from Ireland’s Afghan, Azerbaijani, Baha’I, Iranian, Kazakh, Kurdish and Turkish communities all gathered to celebrate it.
# middle-east - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Obama to visit Israel in first foreign trip since re-election
The US President will arrive in Tel Aviv to inspect a rocket-and-mortar defence system produced by Israel with American assistance.
# middle-east - Sunday 17 March, 2013
Alan Shatter tells Israel: Ireland is still your friend
The Minister for Justice also told an Israeli newspaper that he had been the target of some anti-Semitism during his time in politics but that it had been “extremely rare”.
# middle-east - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Done deal: Netanyahu confirms that he has formed a new Israeli government
The agreement will see Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party form a government with the centrist HaTnuah, Yesh Atid and the far right Jewish Home.
# middle-east - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Arab League readies to hand Syria seat to opposition
The League called for the opposition National Coalition “to form an executive body to take up Syria’s seat” and attend its summit later this month.
Sweden upgrades Palestinian diplomatic status
Swedish lawmakers have upgraded Palestinian diplomatic status but rejected an amendment calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
# middle-east - Monday 25 February, 2013
Syria says it’s prepared to talk with armed rebels
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem is the first high-ranking regime official to say the government is prepared to talk with rebels.
# middle-east - Sunday 10 February, 2013
New NATO commander takes the helm in Afghanistan
The American-led NATO coalition is entering the final stretch of its participation in a war that will have lasted more than 13 years when most foreign combat troops pull out at the end of 2014.
# middle-east - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
A further €4.7 million in Irish Aid pledged for humanitarian crisis in Syria
The additional Irish Aid funding will go towards to delivering vital assistance – including food, water, sanitation and medical supplies – to more than 700,000 Syrian refugees.
# middle-east - Saturday 26 January, 2013
10 police killed in Afghanistan suicide attack: official
Another 18 civilians were wounded in the attack in a crowded area of Kunduz in the north-east of the country.
# middle-east - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Polls open in Israeli elections as Netanyahu expected to retain power
A government of hardline, right wing and religious parties is expected to come together after elections to the 120-seat Knesset today with polls opening this morning.
# middle-east - Monday 21 January, 2013
Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in Algerian hostage crisis
As many as 48 hostages are believed to have been killed in the crisis.
# middle-east - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
Universities in Syria shut after blast kills 87
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but the government and rebels have blamed each other.
# middle-east - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Egypt: 19 killed as train carrying troops derails
A train carrying military conscripts derailed southwest of Cairo, killing 19 people and wounding 107.
# middle-east - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Photos: Israel evicts Palestinians from West Bank protest site
Dozens of protesters were evicted from the first-of-its-kind protest camp in an area slated for Jewish settlement.
# middle-east - Friday 11 January, 2013
Fears for Pakistan’s future as blasts kill 115
An Sunni extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack – one of the most deadly in Pakistan’s history and the worst single attack ever against Shiites in the country.
# middle-east - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Torrential rains hit desert Jordan, floods sweep Middle East
In northern Jordan, relief workers distributing aid to Syrian refugees were injured in a “stampede” in a camp where hundreds of tents have been destroyed by the rains.
# middle-east - Monday 7 January, 2013
Two die from swine flu in China
A man also passed away from the H1N1 influenza strain in Jordan over the weekend.
# middle-east - Friday 4 January, 2013
PHOTOS: Hamas allows huge Fatah rally in Gaza – the first since 2007
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Fatah attended the mass rally – the first since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
# middle-east - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
US journalist kidnapped in Syria six weeks ago is still missing
James Foley went missing six weeks ago but news of his kidnap is only emerging now after his family broke their silence. It is the second time he has been kidnapped in recent years.
Financially-strapped Palestine asks Arab nations to stump up cash
Israel has withheld the usual instalments of tax revenue since Palestine successfully won observer status at the UN.
# middle-east - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
2012: a year in striking images
The year’s biggest news stories…in pics.
# middle-east - Monday 24 December, 2012
Afghan policewoman kills US adviser in Kabul
The killing of the American, who worked as a contractor with the Nato command, is the first known insider attack by a woman in Afghanistan.
# middle-east - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Egyptian referendum: Pro-Constitution side claims narrow win
The Muslim Brotherhood says the Yes vote won 57-43 in yesterday’s votes, but the referendum is not finished yet.
# middle-east - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Divided Egypt votes on new constitution
International watchdogs have expressed reservations about the draft due to loopholes they say could be used to weaken human rights, including those of women, and the independence of the judiciary.
# middle-east - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
Obama recognises Syrian rebels as the ‘legitimate’ representative of the country
The US President said Syria’s opposition is the legitimate representative of the country’s people – the most significant US intervention so far in the brutal civil war.
# middle-east - Friday 7 December, 2012
Obama tells Egypt he is ‘deeply concerned’ over protest deaths
The US president told Mohamed Morsi that he was worried about the deaths of protesters in Egypt in recent days.
# middle-east - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
Iran earthquake kills five, destroys villages in rural area
The quake registered 5.5 on the moment magnitude scale and hit at around 5pm GMT.
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