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US to host Iran-focused global meeting in Poland Feb. 13-14

Date: 2019-01-14 08:47:09 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7755867

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (MENA) - The United States plans to jointly host a global conference focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, CNBC reported on Monday, quoting the US State Department. The meeting will take place in ....

Palestinian teen succumbs to his wounds after being shot by Israeli troops in Jabalia

Date: 2019-01-14 08:13:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7755832

GAZA CITY, Jan 14 (MENA) - A Palestinian teen succumbed to the wounds he sustained by Israeli shooting north of the Gaza Strip. The Health Ministry in Gaza said the 14-year-old boy took a bullet in the head during Friday protest marches in ....

Netanyahu confirms Israeli weekend strike on Iranian weapons caches in Syria

Date: 2019-01-13 13:28:00 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7754985

GAZA CITY, Jan 13 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday confirmed that Israel conducted an airstrike against Iranian targets in Syria over the weekend, which he said destroyed a number of weapons caches in the Damascus ....

Israeli forces demolish agricultural structures near Al Quds

Date: 2019-01-13 10:08:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7754471

RAMALLAH, Jan 13 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers on Sunday demolished an animal barn and other agricultural structures in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Al Quds, WAFA quoted local sources as saying. Bilbal al-Mashni, member of Beit Iksa ....

Israeli jets strike several targets in Gaza

Date: 2019-01-12 22:44:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7754163

GAZA CITY, Jan 12 (MENA) - Israeli aircraft struck several facilities and posts in the Gaza Strip late Saturday night. Israeli army artillery stationed on the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel also fired several shells at posts close ....

Pentagon: US is withdrawing troops from Syria

Date: 2019-01-12 13:08:36 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7753472

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (MENA) - The US said that it is implementing the orderly withdrawal of forces from northeast Syria that are involved in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, the Voice of America reported. Pentagon spokesman Commander ....

Palestinian families face eviction from their homes in East Jerusalem

Date: 2019-01-12 09:28:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7753109

RAMALLAH, Jan 12 (MENA) - The Israeli authority’s Law Enforcement Department has handed an order to the Sabbagh family in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to evacuate a building it owns, and where five Palestinian families live, by ....

Syria air defences intercepted 'hostile targets' -- local media

Date: 2019-01-11 22:39:30 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7752945

DAMASCUS, Jan 11 (MENA) - Explosions have been heard over Damascus, apparently in an Israeli shelling, according to local media. "Syrian air defences intercepted hostile targets and shot down a number of them," said the state news agency ....

Arab Israeli jailed for 11 years over charges of plotting to assassinate Netanyahu

Date: 2019-01-10 21:37:25 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7751687

GAZA CITY, Jan 10 (MENA) - An East Jerusalem man suspected of planning to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last year was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison, Times of Israel ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry slams int'l silence over Israel's opening of "Apartheid Road"

Date: 2019-01-10 09:55:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7750537

RAMALLAH, Jan 10 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry lashed out at the international community for turning a blind eye to Israel's opening of the new Jerusalem ‘Apartheid Road’ which separates Palestinians and Jewish settlers. In a ....