Thema: Arabische Welt

„Gewalt gegen Frauen ist in Marokko alltäglich. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch äußerte sich Anfang des Jahres in einem Brief besorgt über die Lage in dem nordafrikanischen Land: Polizei und Justiz würden oft nicht gegen die Täter vorgehen und den Missbrauch dulden. Auch Marokkos Regierung scheint eine eigentümliche Haltung zu…

„Wer in Kairo in bestimmten Restaurants essen oder in Clubs feiern will, sollte kein Kopftuch tragen. Das Kopftuch entwickelt sich in Teilen der muslimisch geprägten Gesellschaft zur Bürde. Als Nermine Hassan Sajed vor einigen Tagen mit einer Freundin in Kairos teurem Stadtteil Samelek essen gehen wollte, wurde sie abgewiesen. ‚Der…

„Almost every Shi’ite village or neighborhood in southern Lebanon is being used by Hezbollah fighters, according to Brig.-Gen. Ram Yavne, head of the IDF Strategic Division. One civilian village pointed out by Yavne called Chakra, which has 4,000 Shi’ite inhabitants, ‚reflects the situation of every Shi’ite neighborhood, town, or village…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken „Der UN-Sondergesandte für Syrien, Staffan de Mistura, warnte vor einer völligen Zerstörung Ost-Aleppos. Wenn das Bombardement so weitergehe wie derzeit, dann werde ‚es zu Weihnachten kein Ost-Aleppo mehr geben‘, sagte er der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Er habe den Eindruck, dass die syrische Führung dort eine beschleunigte…

Egyptian fighter jets landed for the first time at the Hama Military Airport this week, the Lebanon-based As-Safir newspaper reported on Wednesday morning. As-Safir claims that these Egyptian fighter jets will participate in the ongoing military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), while also providing logistical…

„Ärzte ohne Grenzen“ im Interview Seit vergangener Woche bombardiert das syrische Regime mit Hilfe von Russland den Ostteil Aleppos. Infolge der mehrtägigen Luftangriffe gibt es kein funktionierendes Krankenhaus mehr. Volker Westerbarkey, Präsident der deutschen Sektion von Ärzte ohne Grenzen (MSF), im Gespräch mit Julia Hoffmann. Julia Hoffmann (JH): Nach Angaben…

„Russia and Hezbollah have begun ‚official‘ military coordination in Syria at the behest of Moscow, according to a report published Thursday on a pro-Hezbollah news site. The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese website al-Akhbar reported that Hezbollah officials met with ‚senior‘ Russian officers in the embattled city of Aleppo last week in the…

„Al Mogaz, an Egyptian news site, has an op-ed by Hisham Lachin titled ‚The Reality of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion‘ It starts off this way: ‚Nobody knows when exactly conspiracy theories first appeared, or why they were born and what caused their creation, but it is widely…

„As Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have been closing in on Tal Afar, a town 33 miles west of Mosul, through the western Mosul axis, the organization’s top commanders have openly discussed their post-Islamic State plans to secure the border with Syria and push into the country. These senior militia…

„Yanar Mohammed runs a secret network of safe houses in her native Iraq. The women who come through its doors are honor-killing runaways, rape survivors, war widows and assorted others who have been to the cliff edge of hell and back. The shelters are meant to give them a second…

„Japan is not the only country whose reactors are vulnerable to earthquakes. Iran is as geologically active; there is not a region of Iran which has been spared devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Simply put, Iran’s nuclear facilities – built to less rigorous standards than those in Japan – dare…

„Last year, Ayisha was married at only 13 years old. She delivered a baby several weeks ago – a girl. ‚My family forced me to get married and took me out of school,‘ she told UNFPA while recuperating from childbirth. She was crying; the new reality of her situation weighed…

„At least 1,000 Iranian soldiers deployed to Syria have been reportedly killed, an Iranian official said, underlining Tehran’s increasing presence on front lines of the Syrian conflict. Iran has been sending countless troops to back authoritarian Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. The recently pronounced death toll has taken…

16 Tote, mehrere Dutzend Verletzte – das ist das vorläufige Resultat von Kämpfen zweier rivalisierender Gruppierungen in Libyen, die mit Panzern, Granaten und anderen schweren Waffen ausgetragen wurden. Der Anlass für die Auseinandersetzungen: ein Affe, ein Schulmädchen und ein Kopftuch. „According to residents and local media in the southern city…

„The Islamic State has used chemical weapons, including chlorine and sulfur mustard agents, at least 52 times on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq since it swept to power in 2014, according to a new independent analysis. More than one-third of those chemical attacks have come in and around Mosul,…