Maccabi Haifa dispatches Hapoel Jerusalem in State Cup The Jerusalem Post The defending BSL champion and last season’s cup finalist was extremely confident of taking a first step towards another final on Thursday. | ... ...
Russian raids kill prominent Syrian rebel commander Al Jazeera Russian air strikes have struck targets in multiple locations in Syria, killing the commander of the best organised and best armed opposition group in the Damascus area, Al Jazeera has learned. | Friday's attacks, which notably targeted the opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, killed Zahran Alloush, head of the Army of Islam. | Zahran Alous...
Syria's war is complicated - but the refugee crisis is not The Independent There was a time when I’d find “it's complicated” to be a mildly aggravating response to troubles in the Middle East. That was when the phrase was most popularly applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it felt lazy because actually that conflict is relatively straightforward (you know the script: two states, 1967 borders, Jerusalem a...
