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  • Syrian army retakes control over new areas in Damascus

    Syrian army retakes control over new areas in Damascus

    Date: 2017-12-23 12:59:07 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:7155184

    Syrian army units carried out on Saturday intensified operations on the hideouts of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the village of Mugher al-Mir in the southwestern of Damascus countryside after regaining control over all strategic points in its ....

  • UN condemns Houthi missile attack on Saudi Arabia

    UN condemns Houthi missile attack on Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2017-12-23 09:13:38 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7154795

    The UN Security Council condemned this week’s ballistic missile attack by Houthi militants in Yemen against Saudi Arabia’s capital “in the strongest possible terms", the Washington Post newspaper reported. A statement approved Friday by all 15 ....

  • Israeli occupation blocks entrance to Lubban village

    Israeli occupation blocks entrance to Lubban village

    Date: 2017-12-23 08:54:27 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7154761

    Israeli forces on Saturday installed sand barriers to block the entrance to al Lubban village, northern West Bank. According to Palestinian sources, an Israeli bulldozer and military vehicles totally closed the main entrance to the ....

  • Houthis abducted 16,000 people since 2014: Rights group

    Houthis abducted 16,000 people since 2014: Rights group

    Date: 2017-12-23 08:48:48 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7154750

    Houthi militants have kidnapped nearly 16,000 people in Yemen between September 2014-July 2017, the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations announced on Saturday. "The number of reported abduction cases by Houthi militants reached ....

  • Syrian army advances in southwestern part of Damascus countryside

    Syrian army advances in southwestern part of Damascus countryside

    Date: 2017-12-22 17:42:57 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:7154266

    Units of the Syrian army, in cooperation with popular defense groups, continued their operations against gatherings and positions of Jabhat al Nusra terrorists in the area surrounding Beit Jinn town and Beit Jinn farm in the southwestern of Damascus ....

  • Four Houthi militants killed in Yemen’s Taiz

    Four Houthi militants killed in Yemen’s Taiz

    Date: 2017-12-22 17:17:41 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:7154235

    Four Houthi militants were killed in an ambush set up by members of the Yemeni Popular Resistance Committees (PRCs) in eastern Taiz province, a local source said on Friday. For more than two years, Yemen has been locked in a devastating civil war ....

  • Israeli forces shoot dead young Palestinian in Gaza Strip

    Israeli forces shoot dead young Palestinian in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2017-12-22 16:13:48 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:7154173

    A young Palestinian was killed Friday in clashes with Israeli occupation forces near the separation wall in the Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry Ashraf al Kodra said in press statements the deceased has not yet been ....

  • 78 Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli forces over Jerusalem: PRC

    78 Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli forces over Jerusalem: PRC

    Date: 2017-12-22 16:10:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:7154130

    Seventy-eight Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said. Palestinians have been protesting against US President Donald Trump's ....

  • France backs two-state solution to Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Macron

    France backs two-state solution to Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Macron

    Date: 2017-12-22 16:09:22 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:7154115

    French President Emmanuel Macron has voiced his rejection of the US Administration's decision to unilaterally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. France remained committed to a “two-state” solution in which Israel and Palestine ....

  • Israeli forces shoot dead young Palestinian in Gaza Strip

    Israeli forces shoot dead young Palestinian in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2017-12-22 15:06:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:7154056

    A young Palestinian was killed Friday in clashes with Israeli occupation forces near Erez crossing in northern the Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry Ashraf al Kodra said 24-year-old Zakarya al Kafrna was killed after he ....

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