Image copyright ARAB 24 via REUTERS Image caption Forces on both sides are yet to leave Hudaydah A peace deal in Yemen’s main port city “could be dead within weeks”, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said during a visit to the country. The Yemeni government and the rebel Houthi movement have yet to implement […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tayeb has been grand imam of Al-Azhar since 2010 The grand imam of Egypt’s top Islamic institution, al-Azhar, has said polygamy can be an “injustice for women and children”. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Sunni Islam’s highest authority, said the way it is often practised comes from “a lack of understanding […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The OPCW has said its data provided “reasonable grounds” the attack took place, but did not assign blame. The global chemical weapons watchdog has concluded chlorine is likely to have been used in an attack on the Syrian town of Douma last April. The Organisation for the Prohibition of […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]
Media captionThe faces of the people abandoning IS’s final territory in Syria US-backed forces battling Islamic State in Syria say they have launched their final assault on the jihadists’ last pocket of control in the country. “Nothing remains in Baghuz except for terrorists,” a spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF alliance said, referring to the IS […]