23 May 2022; MEMO: Russian forces are reported to have been withdrawn from Latakia governorate in the west of Syria and sent to the Russian-controlled Hmeimim Air Base on the Mediterranean coast, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday. The troops are believed to have been redeployed and are on the way to boost Russia's forces in Ukraine.
22 May 2022; MEMO: Four people were killed in an attempt to smuggle large amounts of drugs from Syria to Jordan, the kingdom's armed forces said on Sunday, Reuters reports.
Some smugglers were also wounded while others escaped by going back to Syria, it said.
The Jordanian armed forces did not specify who killed or wounded the people involved.
23 May 2022; MEMO: A diplomat from the US consulate in Jerusalem met the leader of an extremist Jewish organisation on Sunday following its removal from America's list of foreign terrorist organisations. The radical Orthodox Jewish group Kahane Chai (Kach) was founded by ultranationalist Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971. Its members have in the past killed Palestinians as well as Israeli officials.
22 May 2022; MEMO: A lawmaker from Israel's Arab minority said on Sunday she was returning to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's coalition, restoring its tenuous hold over half of the seats in parliament after she briefly bolted in solidarity with the Palestinians, Reuters reports.
22 May 2022; MEMO: More than 20,000 apartments owned by Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem, are threatened with demolition by the Israeli municipality, the Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi Al-Hadami said.
22 May 2022; MEMO: Former Fatah member Muhammad Dahlan has condemned the United States' decision to remove ultranationalist Israeli group Kahane Chai from its list of foreign terrorist organisations (FTO), saying it "encourages extremism and terrorism in the region".
22 May 2022; MEMO: Tunisian President Kais Saied issued Friday a presidential decree stipulating the creation of a National Consultative Commission for the New Republic, two advisory committees, and another for National Dialogue; all political parties were excluded from these bodies.
According to the decree issued in the Official Gazette, the National Consultative Commission will be chaired by Professor of Law Sadok Belaid.
BAGHDAD, May 22 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi Ministry of Health said yesterday that, up to 90 cases of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) have been registered in Iraq, including 18 deaths.
“There has been a serious increase in the VHF cases in Iraq recently, and the number of registered cases could rise further, if some other suspected cases are confirmed,” the ministry’s spokesman, Sayf al-Badr, said at a press conference.
The first VHF case was detected in Dhi Qar last month, and later more cases were discovered in several other provinces, he added.
TEL AVIV/GENEVA, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel and Switzerland have confirmed their first cases of monkeypox, joining several European and North American countries in detecting a disease that is endemic to parts of Africa.
In recent weeks, more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox have been detected in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden as well as in the US, Canada, and Australia, raising fears the virus may be spreading.
DUBAI, May 22 (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday that members of an Israeli intelligence service network had been discovered and arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"Under the guidance of the Zionist regime's intelligence service, the network attempted to steal and destroy personal and public property, kidnapping and obtaining fabricated confessions through a network of thugs," the IRGC public relations service said in a statement.
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