# middle-east - Monday 20 May, 2013
Two deadly bombings at places of worship in Baghdad today mark the latest in a string of attacks targeting both Sunni and Shiite areas.
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# middle-east - Friday 17 May, 2013
The US President and Turkish Prime Minister met in Washington to discuss Syria’s ongoing, bloody conflict.
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# middle-east - Thursday 9 May, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Monday 6 May, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Sunday 5 May, 2013
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
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# middle-east - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Oxfam said the figure is comparable to the entire population of Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Derry all moving to Dublin.
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# middle-east - Sunday 28 April, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Friday 26 April, 2013
Sectarian violence erupted three days ago when demonstrations were held in Sunni areas over their treatment by the Shiite-majority authorities.
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# middle-east - Thursday 25 April, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Assad has said the fall of his regime would cause a “domino effect” that would lead to years of instability in the Middle East.
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# middle-east - Thursday 4 April, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you work your way into Wednesday.
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# middle-east - Saturday 23 March, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The US President will arrive in Tel Aviv to inspect a rocket-and-mortar defence system produced by Israel with American assistance.
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# middle-east - Sunday 17 March, 2013
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”.
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# middle-east - Saturday 16 March, 2013
The agreement will see Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party form a government with the centrist HaTnuah, Yesh Atid and the far right Jewish Home.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
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.
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Swedish lawmakers have upgraded Palestinian diplomatic status but rejected an amendment calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
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# middle-east - Monday 25 February, 2013
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem is the first high-ranking regime official to say the government is prepared to talk with rebels.
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# middle-east - Sunday 10 February, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Saturday 26 January, 2013
Another 18 civilians were wounded in the attack in a crowded area of Kunduz in the north-east of the country.
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# middle-east - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Monday 21 January, 2013
As many as 48 hostages are believed to have been killed in the crisis.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but the government and rebels have blamed each other.
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# middle-east - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
A train carrying military conscripts derailed southwest of Cairo, killing 19 people and wounding 107.
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# middle-east - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Dozens of protesters were evicted from the first-of-its-kind protest camp in an area slated for Jewish settlement.
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# middle-east - Friday 11 January, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
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.
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# middle-east - Monday 7 January, 2013
A man also passed away from the H1N1 influenza strain in Jordan over the weekend.
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# middle-east - Friday 4 January, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Fatah attended the mass rally – the first since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
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.
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Israel has withheld the usual instalments of tax revenue since Palestine successfully won observer status at the UN.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
The year’s biggest news stories…in pics.
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# middle-east - Monday 24 December, 2012
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.
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# middle-east - Sunday 16 December, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood says the Yes vote won 57-43 in yesterday’s votes, but the referendum is not finished yet.
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# middle-east - Saturday 15 December, 2012
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.
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# middle-east - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
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.
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# middle-east - Friday 7 December, 2012
The US president told Mohamed Morsi that he was worried about the deaths of protesters in Egypt in recent days.
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