Jonathan Gornall

United Kingdom

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Articles

Why Israel’s Gaza reoccupation threat is fueling fears of regional spillover

6 days ago | arabnews.jp | Jonathan Gornall

Why Israel’s Gaza reoccupation threat is fueling fears of regional spillover Short Url: 11 May 2025 03:05:54 GMT9 Analysts warn of slide toward ethnic cleansing as Israel signals plans for indefinite military control over enclave Palestinian plight worsens as far-right voices increasingly influence Israeli war aims ahead of Trump’s Gulf tour LONDON: For the people of Gaza, the threat of destruction, displacement and death at the hands of the Israeli military is nothing new. But for the next...
Why Israel’s Gaza reoccupation threat is fueling fears of regional spillover

6 days ago | arabnews.com | Jonathan Gornall

Syrian leader discusses regional affairs with Bahrain’s king /node/2600260/middle-east May 10, 2025 23:11 Syrian leader discusses regional affairs with Bahrain’s king Al-Sharaa’s leadership has been improving ties with Arab and Western countries BEIRUT: The president of the Syrian Arab Republic flew to Bahrain on Saturday where he discussed mutual relations and regional affairs with King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa on his latest trip abroad since taking office in January. Al-Sharaa’s leadership...
How Napoleon’s Egypt campaign sparked a printing revolution in the Arab world

1 week ago | arabnews.com | Jonathan Gornall

LONDON: On Sunday, July 1, 1798, a vast fleet of ships appeared off the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Aboard the flagship Orient was the French general Napoleon Bonaparte, still six years away from being proclaimed emperor of France but fresh from a series of military victories in Europe and determined to undermine Britain’s influence in Egypt and the Middle East.
UN chief condemns Israeli strikes on Syria

2 weeks ago | arab.news | Caspar Webb |Jonathan Gornall

NEW YORK CITY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday condemned repeated Israeli airstrikes on Syria as well as growing sectarian violence around Damascus and Suwayda. The condemnation came after more than 100 people were killed in clashes in the Syrian Arab Republic over the past week. The violence has taken place in two predominantly Druze suburbs of the capital, Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, as well as in the southern Druze stronghold of Suwayda.
Saudi ministries unite for safe Hajj

2 weeks ago | arab.news | Jonathan Gornall

MAKKAH: The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has begun distributing Nusuk cards for the Hajj season, with more than 150,000 cards issued and a daily production capacity of 70,000, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday. Printed domestically in state-of-the-art facilities under strict quality and security standards, Nusuk cards feature anti-duplication security measures to help personnel verify pilgrims’ identities and legal status.
What 8-million-year-old stalagmites reveal about Saudi Arabia’s lost green past

2 weeks ago | arabnews.com | Jonathan Gornall

LONDON: Two major surprises greeted researchers in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University when they returned to the UK from Saudi Arabia with samples of ancient stalagmites collected in caves northeast of Riyadh.
1975 - Lebanon’s civil war

4 weeks ago | arabnews.jp | Jonathan Gornall

The conflict left scars that never healed, marking a bloody chapter in the country’s history that would be far from the last LONDON: Even as the first edition of Arab News rolled off the presses on April 20, 50 years ago, it was already clear that 1975 was going to be a momentous year for news. Saudi Arabia was still recovering from the shock of the assassination the previous month of King Faisal, who on March 25 had been shot by an errant minor member of the royal family.
How Israeli settlers are able to seize Palestinian land with impunity in the West Bank

1 month ago | arabnews.com | Jonathan Gornall

LONDON: Attacks on Palestinian villagers in the West Bank by Israeli settlers, and the seizure or demolition of their properties under lopsided laws, are nothing new. But, ever since the start of the war in Gaza, the number and nature of such incidents has intensified.
How effective are the US strikes on the Houthis?

2 months ago | arabnews.com | Jonathan Gornall

LONDON: Few took notice of a five-minute video posted on YouTube on Friday by Media Magik Entertainment, an American “veteran-owned company” that regularly uploads public-relations footage shot by the US military. The short film, which by the weekend had attracted only a few hundred views, showed a flight of four US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets, assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, refueling in the air above a semi-mountainous desert landscape.
Israel-Gaza war behind record high US anti-Muslim incidents, advocacy group says

2 months ago | arab.news | Jonathan Gornall

WASHINGTON: Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4 percent in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by US ally Israel’s war in Gaza and the resulting college campus protests, a Muslim advocacy group said on Tuesday. The Council on American Islamic Relations said it recorded the highest number of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab complaints — 8,658 — in 2024 since it began publishing data in 1996.