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US halts secretive drone program with Turkey over Syria incursion: US officials

Date: 2020-02-05 11:59:00 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8298975

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (MENA) - The United States has halted a secretive drone intelligence program with Turkey over Ankara’s October incursion into Syria, Al Arabiya news channel reported Wednesday, quoting US officials. Turkish military forces ....

Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2020-02-05 11:14:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8298976

RAMALLAH, Feb 5 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab el Magharba on Wednesday. Forty-three settlers toured the mosque yards in a provocative way, the Islamic Awqaf Ministry ....

EU not to recognize Israel's sovereignty over lands occupied in 1967

Date: 2020-02-04 13:59:41 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:8297776

BRUSSELS, fEB 4 (MENA) - The European Union has said it would not recognize Israel's sovereignty over lands occupied since 1967. Israeli steps toward annexation of the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank, should they be implemented, "could ....

CAIR rejects US peace plan

Date: 2020-02-04 12:53:43 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8297666

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 4 (MENA) - The Council of Arab International Relations has categorically rejected the recently-revealed US Middle East peace plan, saying it did not meet the minimum ceiling of the Palestinian people's rights and destroyed the ....

Iran to execute alleged spy convicted of giving nuclear secrets to CIA

Date: 2020-02-04 11:53:47 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8297563

TEHRAN, Feb 4 (MENA) - Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program with the ....

12 Palestinians arrested in West Bank raids

Date: 2020-02-04 11:36:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8297559

RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (MENA) - Israeli forces Tuesday arrested 12 Palestinians, including a mother of four, and injured two others in multiple West Bank raids, said the Palestine Prisoner Society (PPS). According to WAFA, PPS said in a press release ....

Abe: MSDF to not take part in any exercise of force by US in Middle East

Date: 2020-02-04 11:17:30 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8297407

TOKYO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday a Maritime Self-Defense Force unit currently deployed in the Middle East will not take part in any exercise of force by the US military there, The Japan Times reported. While ....

OIC chief asserts importance of Palestinian cause to Islamic nation

Date: 2020-02-03 17:26:59 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:8296679

RIYADH, Feb 3 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen stressed that the organization's member states affirmed the importance of the Palestinian cause to the Islamic nation. The ....

OIC rejects US Mideast peace plan

Date: 2020-02-03 16:11:38 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:8296678

RIYADH, Feb 3 (MENA) - Foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestine cause, with Al-Quds at its core, to the entire Muslim Ummah, and reasserted the Arab and ....

Abbas reiterates refusal to have US as sole mediator in peace process

Date: 2020-02-03 16:04:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:8296667

RAMALLAH, Feb 3 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that he is going to stop security coordination with Israel, WAFA news agency reported. Speaking at the opening of the Palestinian cabinet meeting in Ramallah on Monday, ....