Anna Stavrianakis

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis

The British government believes the US could sanction prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney over her role advising the ICC chief prosecutor on arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal. In April it emerged that the British Foreign Office had warned senior British lawyers involved in the ICC’s war crimes case against two senior Israeli leaders that they are at risk of US sanctions.

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis

The US has warned Britain and France against recognising a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month, Middle East Eye can reveal. France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a major UN conference on the two-state solution beginning on 17 June in New York. France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well.

Mar 26, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Anna Stavrianakis

26 March 2025 11:16 GMT ago We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza It all began with a simple question. How did British officials react after Saudi Arabia killed 155 people and wounded hundreds more at a funeral in Yemen in 2016?