Middle East
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Trump administration says will announce Mideast peace plan soon
Date: 2018-06-24 18:48:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:96 - ID:7458055
GAZA CITY, June 24 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump's senior adviser said the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, CBS News reported on Sunday. In ....
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Assad slams chemical weapons accusations as pretext for foreign intervention
Date: 2018-06-24 15:10:08 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7457445
MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - Syria has not possessed chemical weapons since 2013 and any accusations that the Syrian army is using them are a pretext for an intervention by other countries, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Russian ....
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13 Palestinian arrested in WB
Date: 2018-06-24 12:06:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7457030
RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested late Saturday and early Sunday 13 Palestinians in the West Bank, mostly from Bethlehem. In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said seven Palestinians were detained in Bethlehem ....
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Palestine welcomes British stance towards Quds
Date: 2018-06-24 10:32:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7456991
RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed Britain's stance which asserts that Al Quds (East Jerusalem) is part and parcel of Palestine. The ministry praised Britain's insistence that a visit of ....
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US is now replacing Israel in conflict with Palestinians - diplomat
Date: 2018-06-24 09:17:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7456831
RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - The US has moved from supporting Israel to replacing it in the conflict with Palestine, said Palestine's Ambassador to the UN Riyadh Mansour. Despite this transition in the US role, Mansour told MENA on Sunday that the ....
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Washington tells FSA it won't intervene in offensive to regain opposition-held areas
Date: 2018-06-24 09:02:47 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7456845
WASHINGTON, June 24 (MENA) - The United States has told Syrian rebel factions they should not expect military support to help them resist a Russian-backed government offensive to regain opposition-held parts of Syria bordering Jordan and the ....
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Israeli gunboats attack Gaza coast; no casaulties reported
Date: 2018-06-24 08:40:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7456826
RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats have targeted sites on the coast of the Gaza Strip, without casualties being reported, Palestinian sources said on Sunday. Four rockets were fired by the boats which approached the coast at dawn, ....
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SDF expel Daesh from Syria's Hasakeh
Date: 2018-06-24 07:27:15 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7456745
DAMASCUS, June 24 (MENA) - The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have ousted the last Daesh terrorists from Syria's northeast province of Hasakeh, Al Hurra channel reported on Sunday. The SDF finished combing operations through three Daesh positions ....
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Palestinian dies of his wounds in Gaza
Date: 2018-06-24 07:26:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7456719
GAZA CITY, June 24 (MENA) - A Palestinian died of wounds he sustained on Friday during Marches of Return in Khan Younis, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Israeli forces shot the 29-year-old martyr in the stomach on Friday, Spokesman of Health ....
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Palestinian youth in suspected car-ramming attack turns himself in to Israeli forces
Date: 2018-06-24 07:25:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7456736
RAMALLAH, June 24 (MENA) - A Palestinian man from the West Bank, who is suspected of carrying out a car-ramming attack against Israeli occupation forces on Saturday night, turned himself in hours later and told the Israeli authorities it had been a ....