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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 ....
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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, ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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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Palestine files lawsuit against US at International Court of Justice
Date: 2018-09-29 11:37:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7598175
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Palestine has filed a lawsuit against the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the UN, for violating international law by moving its embassy in Israel to the occupied city of East ....
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Al Azhar slams Israeli crimes against peaceful Gaza protesters
Date: 2018-09-29 10:45:45 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7598137
CAIRO, Sept 29 (MENA) - Al Azhar strongly condemned brutal repression committed by the Israeli forces against peaceful protesters in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The violent incidents left seven Palestinians dead most of them are children and 500 ....