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Israeli warplanes resume airstrikes on Gaza Strip

Date: 2020-02-24 14:01:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8325559

RAMALLAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes resumed this afternoon airstrikes against targets in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage but no injuries, WAFA reported on Monday. A drone and jetfighters bombed several locations in Khan Yunis in ....

Abu Rudeineh: American-Israeli maps will not give legitimacy to anyone

Date: 2020-02-24 13:51:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8325114

RAMALLAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the American-Israeli maps that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will be drawn soon according to the so-called "deal of the century" would not give ....

SOHR: 11 miliants, 8 regime soldiers killed in clashes in Idlib southern countryside

Date: 2020-02-24 12:14:33 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:8325117

LONDON, Feb 24 (MENA) - The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented the killing of 11 militants of the factions, including seven jihadists, in clashes and shelling in Sheikh Damis and Hantutin areas in the southern ....

Israel detains 36 Palestinians including girl, five children in WB

Date: 2020-02-24 11:21:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8325197

RAMALLAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained during the past hours 36 Palestinians, including five minors and a girl, in multiple raids across occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, WAFA news agency quoted the Palestine Prisoner Society (PPS) as ....

OIC decries Israeli occupation’s decision to build new settlements in Al Quds

Date: 2020-02-24 11:06:36 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8325074

RIYADH, Feb 24 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Monday condemned the endorsement of the Israeli occupation for a plan to build thousands of new settlements in the occupied Al Quds city. The OIC described the move an ....

Russia to conduct observation flight over Turkey on February 25-28 - Defence Ministry

Date: 2020-02-24 10:56:13 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8325131

MOSCOW, Feb 24 (MENA) - Russia will conduct a surveillance flight over the Turkish territory under the Open Skies Treaty from February 25-28, Sputnik News Agency reported quoting the Russian Defense Ministry as saying in a statement on ....

OIC welcomes US-Taliban agreement

Date: 2020-02-24 09:57:59 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8325023

JEDDAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the agreement reached between the US and the Taliban in consultation with the government of Afghanistan to reduce violence across Afghanistan. The deal will pave the way ....

Iran's coronavirus death toll rises to 12 with 47 confirmed cases

Date: 2020-02-24 09:51:36 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8324946

TEHRAN, Feb 24 (MENA) - The coronavirus death toll in Iran has risen to 12 and the total number of confirmed cases to 47, Al Arabiya news website reported, quoting state media. “Fourty-seven people have so far been infected with coronavirus in ....

Iran sustains military spending in face of US sanctions

Date: 2020-02-24 09:50:23 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8325047

LONDON, Feb 24 (MENA) - Iran has sustained its military spending in the face of debilitating US sanctions, a military adviser to the supreme leader has said in a rare interview, dismissing the Trump administration’s claims that its maximum pressure ....

SOHR: Six militants killed in Israeli airstrike near Damascus

Date: 2020-02-24 09:46:14 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8324985

LONDON, Feb 24 (MENA) - Six pro-Syrian regime fighters were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes near Damascus, a war monitor said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two members of the Islamic Jihad militant group and four ....