Full Coverage: Middle East

28.02.2006 An immediate end to the US occupation and the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping force was demanded yesterday by an international women's human rights organisation.

27.02.2006 Iraq is teetering on the threshold of wholesale disaster, warns a new International Crisis Group report, which says low-intensity conflict is in danger of escalating into an all-out civil war that could lead to the country’s disintegration and destabilise the entire region.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

24.02.2006 Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, is planning to build the first information technology education center in the volatile Gaza Strip.

24.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (OneWorld) - Three Nobel laureates are throwing their weight behind an international coalition in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and calling on the public to protest the occupation by taking part in nonviolent lawbreaking at U.S. military bases.

21.02.2006 Sobeih sets the context by explaining that Egypt has become one of the leaders in the technology sector across the Arab region.

21.02.2006 The talk around New York the past few days has been about the Arab-based company chosen to run the city's massive and strategically important seaport. National security specialist Ivan Eland thinks the politicians should drop the posturing and "commercial racial profiling" and move on to more important issues.

20.02.2006 DUBAI, Feb 20 (IPS) - While Islamist clerics and regional trade groups have called for a boycott of European goods in reprisal for the caricaturing of Prophet Muhammad, leading Arab academics and intellectuals say this could only boomerang on the religion and its followers.

17.02.2006 "Don’t complain, get up and change it." Ashtar Theatre director Iman Aoun, otherwise known as the ‘joker’, is inspiring groups in Ramalla and Jerusalem to act out their political views and thoughts, and to come up with alternative laws underlying the issues to submit to the government.

16.02.2006 As tourists begin to return to South Lebanon, local residents are learning how to capitalize on the increasing number of visitors coming to their communities. Disproportionately hurt by regional instability and civil conflict, job-generating projects, like guided mule tours up Mount Hermon, are bringing economic growth to the region.

14.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 14 (OneWorld) - They went to sleep as Syrians and woke up stripped of their citizenship and their rights to study, work, or marry as they wish.

14.02.2006 Anwar Kahim Jawad and Vivian Salim Mati, who both lost their families during the Iraq War, were denied visa requests and the opportunity to travel to the U.S. to share their tragic stories and celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. Call the State Department or send a message to Condoleezza Rice asking the U.S. to grant them visas, urges Code Pink.

14.02.2006 A boycott of Danish goods in Egypt following publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper has been largely successful, going by market reports.

14.02.2006 The Iraqi government called for an immediate investigation by the British Ministry of Defence following the release of video footage on Sunday showing UK soldiers beating Iraqi teenagers.

10.02.2006 WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (IPS) - The escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear programme appears to have persuaded the U.S. public that Tehran now poses a greater threat to the United States than any other country, or even al Qaeda, according to recent surveys.

09.02.2006 Campaigners applaud the Church of England’s vote in favour of divesting its £2.2 million shares from bulldozer manufacturer Caterpillar as a protest against human rights violations, particularly in Palestine.

09.02.2006 Contract mismanagement and possible corruption in the Iraqi government are fueling a crisis over international gasoline delivery into Iraq.

07.02.2006 King Abdullah needs to root out continuing serious rights abuses in Jordan, a leading rights group urged ahead of his meeting with US President George Bush.

07.02.2006 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be amending licences as of 20 February to enable Internet service providers (classes A and B) to obtain international bandwidth. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology further said that the Information Technology and Development Agency (ITDA) has granted four licences for e-signatures which would help the local community in boosting e-commerce."

04.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 4 (OneWorld) - Water, water everywhere and we are duped into buying it bottled.