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  • UN: Worse may still come in Syria, after airstrikes in Idlib

    Date: 2018-06-11 14:26:25 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7440020

    GENEVA, June 11 (MENA) - The UN humanitarian agency's top official for Syria is expressing concern about recent airstrikes in rebel-held Idlib province, warning that "we may have not seen the worst of the crisis" in Syria even after 7 years of ....

  • EU provides €15 million to support families in need in Palestine

    Date: 2018-06-11 11:46:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7439485

    RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - The European Union made a contribution of €15 million to the Palestinian Authority payment of social allowances to poor families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It will contribute to payments made to around 65,839 ....

  • Israeli army conducts military exercises south Nablus

    Date: 2018-06-11 11:08:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7439417

    RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, complained on Monday that Israeli army military training in their area has destroyed their crops, WAFA news agency reported on ....

  • Israel carries out limited incursion into central Gaza

    Date: 2018-06-11 10:38:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7439306

    GAZA CITY, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces conducted a limited incursion east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday morning, witnesses said. Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, were seen destroying farmers' ....

  • Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, including journalist

    Date: 2018-06-11 10:07:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7439346

    RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 11 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, including a journalist, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said that the occupation forces detained ....

  • Sana: Terrorists set fire to planted lands in Quneitra

    Date: 2018-06-10 13:34:29 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7438175

    DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Terrorist groups set fire to dozens of dunams planted with trees and wheat in the area of Kroum al-Hamria and villages of Jabba in the northern countryside of Quneitra, Sana news agency reported Sunday. On Saturday ....

  • Assad denies Russia makes decisions for him

    Date: 2018-06-10 11:04:30 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7437814

    DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad denied that military ally Russia was making decisions for him, but said it was natural for there to be differences of opinion between allies, in an interview published on Sunday by state ....

  • Palestinian leadership rejected UN envoy meeting on Gaza -- official

    Date: 2018-06-10 11:01:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7437821

    RAMALLAH, June 10 (MENA) - The Palestinian leadership has refused to attend a meeting called for by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, said a member of the ....

  • Iran says couldn't wait EU 'vague promises'

    Date: 2018-06-10 10:00:02 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7437748

    TEHRAN, June 10 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said that Tehran cannot wait for too long to see if Europe can preserve the nuclear deal, calling on Europeans to announce their clear decision sooner. "The Islamic Republic ....

  • Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast

    Date: 2018-06-09 11:33:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7436657

    GAZA CITY, June 9 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats on Saturday fired at Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the coast of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. None was harmed. In the West Bank, Israeli forces mounted a search and arrest ....

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