US says ‘specific steps’ agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus

US says ‘specific steps’ agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus

Watch: How a day of bombing unfolded in Damascus Israel’s military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province of Suweida continued for a fourth day. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its forces were “working to save our…

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Why did Israel bomb Syria? A look at the Druze and the violence in Suwayda | Armed Groups News

Why did Israel bomb Syria? A look at the Druze and the violence in Suwayda | Armed Groups News

Israel has launched a series of intense strikes on Damascus, Syria’s capital, intensifying a campaign it says is in support of an Arab minority group. Syria, on Wednesday, strongly condemned Israeli attacks, denouncing the strikes as a “dangerous escalation.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Israel of pursuing a “deliberate policy” to  “inflame tensions, spread…

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Africa: Afell Applauds Govt for Signing AU Convention On Ending Violence Against Women

Africa: Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws Are Fueling Poverty & Violence Against Women

New York — Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their children or foreign spouses. Catherine Harrington, Campaign Manager for the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights. Credit: Ava McLaughlin Gagliardi These legal…

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Africa: Afell Applauds Govt for Signing AU Convention On Ending Violence Against Women

Africa/Central Africa – Bishops of Bangassou Call for an End to Violence in the Diocese

Bangui — “We, the Bishops of Bangassou, together with the entire Catholic community, are deeply concerned about the violence affecting Haut Mbomou,” emphasize Juan Josè Aguirre, Bishop of Bangassou and Aurelio Gazzera, Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese in the south-east of the Central African Republic, in a pastoral letter read on Sunday, June 8, during…

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