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  • Iraqi forces kill three suicide bombers in Al Anbar city

    Date: 2017-10-05 11:16:32 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:7024781

    BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (MENA) - Three suicide bombers were killed during clashes with Iraqi forces in southern Ramadi city of Iraq, Al Anbar Operations Command said on Thursday. Security forces clashed with three militants affiliated to Daesh terrorist ....

  • Gaza strip now under unity government's control: Hamas

    Date: 2017-10-05 10:16:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7024673

    GAZA, Oct 5 (MENA) - Hamas announced on Thursday that Gaza strip and its ministries are now under the control of the Palestinian national unity government. In a press statement, the movement's Spokesman Abdul Latif Al Qanua said Hamas will place ....

  • Al Nusra Front denies leader injured in Russian strike

    Date: 2017-10-05 09:39:34 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7024582

    DAMASCUS, Oct 5 (MENA) - Syria’s Tahrir al Sham militant group (al Nusra Front) denied that its leader Abu Muhammad Jawlani had been critically wounded in a Russian air strike. In a statement, Al Nusra Front affirmed that its leader is in a good ....

  • Scores of settlers storm into Al Aqsa

    Date: 2017-10-05 08:53:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7024514

    RAMALLAH, Oct 5 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed into al Aqsa Mosque guarded by Israeli forces on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said 43 settlers, who conducted provocative tours in the mosque, entered from al Magharba gate. A number of the ....

  • Germany redeploys anti-Daesh surveillance jets to Jordan

    Date: 2017-10-05 08:48:04 GMT - Germany - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7024507

    BERLIN, Oct 5 (MENA) - Germany on Wednesday moved four Tornado jets flying surveillance missions against Daesh to Jordan after withdrawing them from Turkey amid a bilateral dispute, Al Arabiya quoted the defense ministry as saying. Berlin decided ....

  • Russian airstrike in Syria leaves Al Nusra 'emir' in coma, 49 terrorists dead

    Date: 2017-10-05 06:57:45 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7024410

    MOSCOW, Oct 5 (MENA) - Russia's Aerospace Forces killed 49 militants, including seven Nusra Front terrorist group leaders, in a precision strike in Syria, Sputnik quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov as saying ....

  • Russia has good relations with Kurds, says Putin

    Date: 2017-10-04 15:46:01 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7023764

    MOSCOW, Oct 4 (MENA) - Russia has historically good relations with the Kurds, but in the issue of Iraqi Kurdistan Moscow believes everything must be done not to escalate the situation, Tass quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying ....

  • Turkey to detain 254 municipality, ministry staff over Gulen links

    Date: 2017-10-03 14:00:54 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7021695

    ANKARA, Oct 3 (MENA) - Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 254 Istanbul municipality and ministry staff over alleged links to the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating last year's attempted coup, the Daily Mail quoted state media as ....

  • OIC condemns Las Vegas shooting

    Date: 2017-10-03 13:14:22 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:7021679

    JEDDAH, Oct 2 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef bin Ahmad Al Othaimeen has strongly condemned the shooting on an outdoor concert in Las Vegas city, the US, two days ago. "This is an abhorrent ....

  • Israeli vehicles storm al Araqeeb village of al Naqab

    Date: 2017-10-03 11:43:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:7021261

    RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - Israeli military vehicles on Tuesday stormed the unrecognized village of al Araqeeb in al Naqab area in the south. Occupation vehicles demolished houses of the village for the 119th time a in row. Israeli occupation ....

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