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  • Lavrov: Attacks by terrorists in Syria's Idlib would be crushed

    Date: 2019-08-20 13:36:31 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:8070081

    MOSCOW, Aug 20 (MENA) - Russia has military servicemen stationed on the ground in Syria’s region of Idlib and is following the situation there closely, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Attacks by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham ....

  • Israeli occupation deliberately violate rights of injured Palestinians prisoners

    Date: 2019-08-20 13:13:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8069873

    RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Israeli occupation prison authorities are deliberately violating the rights of the wounded Palestinian prisoners, said the Authority for the Palestinian Liberated Detainees and Prisoners Affairs on Tuesday. The Israeli ....

  • Daesh is regaining strength in Iraq, Syria: NYT report

    Date: 2019-08-20 13:09:58 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:8069866

    NEW YORK, Aug 20 (MENA) - Five months after American-backed forces ousted Daesh terrorist group from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is gathering new strength, conducting guerrilla attacks across Iraq and Syria, retooling ....

  • PA holds Israeli occupation responsible for suffering of Palestinians in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2019-08-20 13:06:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8069975

    RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday held the Israeli occupation government responsible for the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip due to its unfair siege. The ministry, in a statement, also ....

  • Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounces participation of WH staffers in storming Aqsa

    Date: 2019-08-20 12:00:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:8069776

    RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced the participation of White House staffers in storming Al Aqsa Mosque with settlers under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The ministry, in a statement on ....

  • US, Iran are at loggerheads, again: Washington Post

    Date: 2019-08-20 11:58:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8069865

    WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (MENA) - Though the US and Iran have lived in a state of hostility for decades, rarely have relations been as tense as in recent months, the risk is that a miscalculation could lead to a war that neither the US nor Iran say they ....

  • Settlers storm Aqsa Mosque under protection of occupation forces

    Date: 2019-08-20 11:35:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8069754

    RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Groups of Israeli settlers on Tuesday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Maghreba Gate under protection of Israeli occupation forces. According to Palestinian sources, the settlers broke into the mosque and toured it before ....

  • Daesh could re-emerge in Syria: Chinese envoy warns

    Date: 2019-08-20 10:30:31 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8069737

    GENEVA, Aug 20 (MENA) - China's special envoy to Syria said on Tuesday that there was a danger of Daesh forces reviving in Syria and called for progress in the political process between President Bahshar el Assad government and opposition, the New ....

  • Plakiotakis: No formal request by Iranian tanker to dock in Kalamata

    Date: 2019-08-20 09:00:46 GMT - Greece - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8069592

    ATHENS, Aug 20 (MENA) - No “formal request” has been made so far to Greek authorities by the Iranian tanker wanted by US authorities to dock at the port of Kalamata, Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis said on Tuesday. The Grace 1, renamed the ....

  • Five Palestinian injured by Israeli forces in W.Bank, Al Quds

    Date: 2019-08-20 08:49:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8069537

    RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday when hundreds of settlers stormed the vicinity of Joseph's Tomb near in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers repeatedly stormed ....

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