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  • Middle East Quartet calls for preventing tensions in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-09-27 11:48:08 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7595582

    NEW YORK/MOSCOW, Sept 27 (MENA) - Representatives of the Middle East Quartet members (Russia, the US, the EU and the UN) have held a meeting on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, calling for efforts to prevent a new armed ....

  • Russian, Jordanian FMs probe ME conditions

    Date: 2018-09-27 09:05:36 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7595185

    MOSCOW, Sept 27 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi have discussed Middle East conditions especially the situation in Syria and Iraq on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations ....

  • Trump vows to release Mideast peace plan within 4 months

    Date: 2018-09-26 21:54:12 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:7594654

    NEW YORK, Sept 26 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he hoped to present his long-anticipated peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians within four months, and said he favored a two-state solution to the decades of conflict ....

  • After Trump meeting, Netanyahu backs Palestinian state under Israeli security control

    Date: 2018-09-26 21:08:33 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:7594795

    NEW YORK, Sept 26 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters Wednesday he was not surprised by US President Donald Trump's remark that he favored a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying "Everyone ....

  • OIC orders ministerial panel to look into violations against Rohingya Muslims

    Date: 2018-09-26 15:49:50 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:7594403

    RIYADH, Sept 26 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen ordered on Wednesday forming a 10-member ministerial committee to look into human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims ....

  • Egypt condemns storming Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli settlers

    Date: 2018-09-26 13:48:04 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7594098

    CAIRO, Sept 26 (MENA) - Mufti of the Republic Shawky Allam on Wednesday condemned storming Al Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian territories by hundreds of Israeli settlers earlier in the day. In a press release, he urged the international community ....

  • Abbas: Palestinian issue passing through most difficult time

    Date: 2018-09-26 10:24:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7593708

    RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, Sept 26 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said that the Palestinian issue is passing through the most difficult time. At a meeting in his residence in New York with members of the Palestinian community, ....

  • 4 killed, injured in blast in southeastern Turkey

    Date: 2018-09-26 09:22:12 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7593541

    ANKARA, Sept 26 (MENA) - Two people were killed and two others injured when a primitive bomb went off in southeastern Sirnak province, according to Turkish media. An improvised explosive device planted on a road in Sirnak’s Silopi district was ....

  • Livni urges Abbas to reopen talks with US

    Date: 2018-09-26 09:15:40 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7593537

    GAZA CITY, Sept 26 (MENA) - Israeli opposition leader MK Tzipi Livni met on Tuesday night with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings. She urged him to reopen diplomatic channels with ....

  • 15 Daesh militants, six SDF members killed in clashes in Deir al Zour countryside

    Date: 2018-09-26 06:40:03 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7593304

    DAMASCUS, Sept 26 (MENA) - Fifteen Daesh militants and six members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in fierce clashes in the countryside of Deir al Zour over the past 24 hours, Syrian sources said. Fierce clashes between ....

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