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Tehran officially halts some nuclear deal commitments

Date: 2019-05-15 07:04:13 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7942036

TEHRAN, May 15 (MENA) - Iran announced the suspension of certain commitments under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the nuclear deal, earlier this month, stating that the other signatories have a 60-day period to ....

Israeli army vehicles make limited incursion into southern Gaza

Date: 2019-05-14 12:09:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7941008

GAZA CITY, May 14 (MENA) - Four Israeli army bulldozers on Tuesday conducted limited incursions into Palestinian lands in southern the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said. The Israeli bulldozers forced their way near Sofa Crossing between Khan Yunis ....

White House reviews military plans against Iran, in echoes of Iraq war

Date: 2019-05-14 12:04:27 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7940974

NEW YORK, May 14 (MENA) - At a meeting of US President Donald Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the ....

Israeli forces arrest 13 Palestinians from the West Bank

Date: 2019-05-14 09:39:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7940705

RAMALLAH, May 14 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested last night and early this morning 13 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, WAFA news agency reported. Soldiers detained four Palestinians from Bethlehem, four others from ....

Turkish jets violate Greek airspace

Date: 2019-05-13 19:19:21 GMT - Greece - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:7940329

ATHENS, May 13 (MENA) - A pair of Turkish Air Force F-16s violated Greek air space on Monday, flying over the eastern Aegean island cluster of Oinousses, the local Ekathimerini reported. The jets passed over Oinousses at 15:55 local time at an ....

7 Palestinian journalists detained in West Bank -- ministry

Date: 2019-05-13 13:08:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7939590

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - Seven Palestinian journalists were held by Israeli forces on Sunday while covering the seizure of Palestinian houses in northern West Bank, said the Palestinian information ministry in a statement on Monday. The ....

Palestinian FM deplores acquittal of Israeli in Palestinian family attack

Date: 2019-05-13 11:23:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:7939486

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - The Palestinian foreign ministry has denounced the acquittal of an Israeli involved in burning a Palestinian family in June 2015. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that the step reveals "the fraudulence of the ....

Palestinian foreign ministry deplores US ambassador's stances

Date: 2019-05-13 10:38:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7939314

RAMALLAH, May (MENA) - The Palestinian foreign ministry deplored on Monday repeated stances of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "He replaced the references of the political conflict with that of the ....

Syrian army destroys terrorists’ vehicles, fortifications in Hama

Date: 2019-05-13 10:34:46 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7939448

DAMASCUS, May 13 (MENA) - The Syrian army continued operations against Jabhat al Nusra terrorists in both Hama and Idlib countrysides, Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday. An army unit tracked the movements of a terrorist group from Jabhat ....

Palestinian, Russian presidents to meet in mid June

Date: 2019-05-13 10:13:28 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7939342

MOSCOW, May 13 (MENA) - President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas expects to hold a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Meeting on Cooperation and Confidence Measures in Asia in Dushanbe on June ....