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  • Jewish settlers storm Aqsa Mosque precincts

    Date: 2018-10-03 11:46:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7604436

    RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday amid tight security measures imposed by Israeli occupation forces, Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) ....

  • 14 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in W.Bank

    Date: 2018-10-03 10:14:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7604261

    RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested on Wednesday 14 Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that nine Palestinians were arrested in Al Quds, two in Bethlehem and three others in Ramallah ....

  • Fierce clashes break out between Hay'at Tahrir al Sham, Daesh in Idlib

    Date: 2018-10-03 07:39:21 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7604041

    DAMASCUS, Oct 3 (MENA) - Fierce clashes broke out between elements from Hay'at Tahrir al Sham and Daesh members in Idlib countryside. A number of Daesh members were killed and injured in the clashes, Alhurra news channel quoted Syrian sources as ....

  • Amnesty International: Israel’s planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar "war crime"

    Date: 2018-10-02 17:02:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7603561

    RAMALLAH, Oct 2 (MENA) - The planned demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish settlements is a war crime, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Saleh Higazi, ....

  • Turkey orders 417 detained in money laundering probe

    Date: 2018-10-02 08:15:29 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7602307

    ANKARA, Oct 2 (MENA) - Turkish media said prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 417 people suspected of money laundering for transferring 2.5 billion Turkish lira (US$423 million) to thousands of bank accounts abroad. As many as 216 of the ....

  • Palestinians stage all-out strike against racist Israeli law

    Date: 2018-10-01 11:38:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7601006

    RAMALLAH, Oct 1 (MENA) - The occupied Palestinian territories and the Palestinians in Israel observed on Monday a general strike in protest against the new racist Israeli law, the Nation-State Basic Law, WAFA reported. Life almost came to ....

  • Iran Guard launches missiles into Syria ‘in retaliation for Ahwaz attack’

    Date: 2018-10-01 06:00:31 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7600457

    TEHRAN, Oct 1 (MENA) - Iranian state media said on Monday the country's Revolutionary Guard, known as the IRGC, fired missiles into eastern Syria in response to an attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahwaz last week, Al Arabiya news ....

  • Real Madrid honors Palestine's Ahed Tamimi

    Date: 2018-09-30 12:45:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:7599604

    GAZA CITY, Sept 30 (MENA) - Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, who served an eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail, was honored by Spanish soccer club Real Madrid on Saturday after being invited to visit the team’s stadium. Tamimi, 17, was ....

  • Settlers storms into Aqsa

    Date: 2018-09-30 09:30:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7599119

    RAMALLAH, Sept 30 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed into Aqsa Mosque on Sunday from Magharba gate guarded by Israeli forces. Among the settlers, who performed Talmudic rituals, was an extremist Knesset member. Media officer at the ....

  • Armed factions pull out weapons from Idlib buffer zone -- rights group

    Date: 2018-09-30 06:49:43 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7598974

    DAMASCUS, Sept 30 (MENA) - Armed factions have started pulling out their heavy weapons from a demilitarized zone in Idlib, established upon a Russia-Turkish deal to avert the region a massive military offensive by the regime army, according to a ....

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