Middle East
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Drone attack repelled by Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base in Syria
Date: 2019-08-12 06:56:57 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8061137
MOSCOW, Aug 12 (MENA) - Six suicide drones launched at the Russian Khmeimim Air Base on Sunday have been shot down, RT reported quoting the Russian Defense Ministry. The air defenses destroyed the UAVs at a “safe distance,” and no damage was ....
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Up to 1,340 Israeli settlers storm Aqsa Mosque
Date: 2019-08-11 16:40:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8060919
RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - Up to 1,340 Israeli settlers, guarded by occupation troops, have stormed the holy mosque of Al Aqsa on the first day of Eid al Adha. Israeli police fired rubber bullets and teargas bombs at Palestinian Muslims while ....
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450 Jewish settlers storm into Al Aqsa Mosque complex
Date: 2019-08-11 12:26:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8060674
RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - About 450 Jewish settlers, guarded by Israeli occupation forces, on Sunday pushed their way into Al Aqsa Mosque complex. Eyewitnesses told MENA that Israeli police forces allowed settlers to break into the mosque complex ....
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Scores of Palestinians suffocated by Israeli tear gas bombs fired at worshipers
Date: 2019-08-11 08:27:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8060446
RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - Scores of Palestinians were suffocated on Sunday from tear gas bombs fired by the Israeli occupation forces at the precincts of Aqsa Mosque complex to disburse worshipers who gathered earlier in the day to perform Eid Al ....
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Palestinian youth martyred by Israeli fire in northern Gaza
Date: 2019-08-11 07:43:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8060418
RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was martyred on Sunday by Israeli occupation fire in Beit Hanoun town in northern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the Israeli occupation forces, stationed at the military towers set up at the border ....
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Israeli forces detain 2 Palestinians on charges of killing soldier
Date: 2019-08-10 22:32:32 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:8060236
GAZA CITY, Aug 10 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of the murder of an Israeli soldier over the weekend, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. The two Palestinians were identified as 24-year-old Nazir Saleh Khalil ....
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Al Aqsa mosque facing real threat: AL
Date: 2019-08-10 11:31:36 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8059621
CAIRO, Aug 10 (MENA) - Israeli occupation underway plans and preparations to storm al Aqsa mosque pose a real threat to Islam's third holiest site and necessitate firm international Arab and Muslim action to put an end to Israeli occupation's ....
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Israeli occupation forces detain 8 Palestinians in WB
Date: 2019-08-10 11:25:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8059515
RAMALLAH, Aug 10 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces at dawn Saturday detained eight Palestinians during confrontations in Al-Issawiya town in Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) and the Southern West Bank city of Al Khalil (Hebron). In Al Quds, one ....
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Israel kills four Palestinians near border fence, shells posts in Gaza Strip
Date: 2019-08-10 08:10:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8059394
GAZA CITY, Aug 10 (MENA) - Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces near the eastern borders of the central Gaza Strip, an Israeli military spokesman said. The spokesman claimed that the Israeli forces opened fire at the four Palestinians ....
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Eid prayers in Al Aqsa to be delayed for 60 minutes
Date: 2019-08-09 20:27:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:8059167
RAMALLAH, Aug 9 (MENA) - Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohamed Hussein announced Friday that Eid al-Adha (Greater Bairam) prayers in the holy mosque of Al Aqsa would be delayed for an hour to start at 7:30 Local Time Sunday. During his Friday sermon, ....