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Arab parl't speaker slams softened US position on Israeli settlements

Date: 2019-11-19 11:04:22 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8194094

CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) - Arab Parliament Speaker Mishaal bin Fahm al Salami affirmed his rejection of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the US will no longer consider Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal ....

AL chief slams US announcement on Israeli settlements, terms it as "very negative" development

Date: 2019-11-19 08:40:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8194042

CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday condemned the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank do not violate international ....

Syrian air defense repels air raid on Damascus Airport

Date: 2019-11-19 07:08:11 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8193985

DAMASCUS, Nov 19 (MENA) - Syrian missile defenses fended off projectiles attack near Damascus International Airport and shot down some of them, Russia Today channel reported quoting Syrian field sources. The strikes also targeted Syrian Army ....

Palestinian presidency: US announcement on settlements null and void

Date: 2019-11-19 06:11:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8193920

RAMALLAH, Nov 19 (MENA) - Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Tuesday that the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank do not violate international law is null ....

Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements

Date: 2019-11-18 22:11:35 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:106 - ID:8193813

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a major reversal of the US' longstanding policy on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that deemed the ....

Israel arrests 11 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2019-11-18 12:36:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8192778

RAMALLAH, Nov 18 (MENA) - Israeli forces today arrested at least 11 Palestinians and ransacked several houses across the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Club. It said in a press statement that five Palestinians were held from southern ....

Kazakh FM: Next Round of Astana peace talks on Syria expected in early December

Date: 2019-11-18 07:26:51 GMT - Kazakhstan - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8192244

NUR SULTAN, Nov 18 (MENA) - Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said on Monday the next meeting on Syria within the Astana framework will take place in Nur-Sultan in early December, Sputnik reported. The meeting was originally planned to ....

Several ME nations interested in S-400 systems - Russia's FSVTS

Date: 2019-11-17 20:37:16 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:8192011

MOSCOW, Nov 17 (MENA) – Several Middle Eastern countries have expressed interest in Russia's S-400 air defense system, Sputnik reported Sunday. “Several countries from the Middle East have expressed interest in the [S-400] systems,” a ....

Israel arrests four Palestinians in WB

Date: 2019-11-17 12:12:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8191195

RAMALLAH, Nov 17 (MENA) - Israel arrested at least four Palestinians, including two children, on Saturday and Sunday in the West Bank. Among the arrested were two children aged 13 and a 19-year-old citizen, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in ....

Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi completes 40 years in Israeli jails

Date: 2019-11-17 10:10:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:8190978

RAMALLAH, Nov 17 (MENA) - Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, completed Sunday his 40th year behind bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), as quoted in a report by Wafa News ....