Full Coverage: Middle East

23.04.2007 LOS ANGELES, Apr 23 (OneWorld) - Sean Huze smokes a cigarette on the first floor patio of his two bedroom apartment in the heart of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The 32-year-old Iraq war veteran still keeps his hair in a crew-cut and wears a sweatshirt that reads "Marines" across the front.

20.04.2007 Iraqi authorities are increasingly imposing the death penalty, often after pre-trial televised "confessions", uninvestigated allegations of torture and unfair trials, according to a new report.
+ Iraq's Long Night

18.04.2007 Urgent action on behalf of an estimated 1m Iraqi children living as refugees is recommended in a new report.

17.04.2007 The Middle East is on the verge of a new humanitarian crisis unless the European Union, U.S. and other states take urgent, concrete measures to assist the more than three million people forcibly displaced by the conflict in Iraq, warns a briefing issued to coincide with an international conference in Geneva.

16.04.2007 Suspension of Western aid and Israel's refusal to transfer money owed to the Palestinian Authority has led to grave humanitarian consequences for Palestinians, says a survey commissioned by an international development agency.

13.04.2007 Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority have united in their fight against the Mediterranean fruit fly, one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.

13.04.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 12 (OneWorld) - On February 18, 2005 an Iraqi man was driving his vehicle from his house to work at his farm. On the way, U.S. forces shot him when they passed, damaging the vehicle and killing the man. His case is among the hundreds detailed in internal Pentagon documents released today.

12.04.2007 A new International Red Cross report expresses alarm about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Iraq and calls for urgent action to protect civilians against the continuing violence.

12.04.2007 It’s time for the authorities in Gaza to take control of the increasingly perilous position, or risk alienating international support, says Bassem Eid.

12.04.2007 Much has been made of changes in policies allowing for U.S. military recruits of a wider range of age and differing mental and physical capacities. According to Iraqi officials and NGOs, insurgents in that country have gone even further and are recruiting mentally handicapped children.

10.04.2007 A 15-year-old girl from Cairo has become the 34th person in Egypt to be diagnosed with bird flu, of whom 13 have died.

05.04.2007 A year-long conference series on public media in the Arab world focused on changes in the media environment, the role of the state, and what "public media" means in Arab countries.

05.04.2007 The full story of the siege of Fallujah in April 2004 - one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times - has never been told. Now a performance using only the words of participants collected by a researcher is being staged in London in May.

02.04.2007 Bahrain has launched a major campaign to bring religious leaders into the fight against AIDS. The number of cases reported in Arab countries has gone up by 300% in the past three years.

01.04.2007 The title of the beautifully filmed Iraq in Fragments refers to the impressionistic nature of the documentary as much as to the looming state of the nation.