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Iraqi oil minister says meeting with Tillerson "very fruitful"
Date: 2017-03-11 07:24:49 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:6671393
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al Luaibi said Saturday his recent meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was very fruitful. Luaibi thanked the US administration for excluding Iraq from an amended travel ban order issued by US President ....
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UN: Cholera cases rises beyond 5,000 in South Sudan
Date: 2017-03-11 07:14:43 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:6671333
The United Nations said on Friday that South Sudan's cholera outbreak has reached the country's second-largest city, as the number of cases nationwide rises beyond 5,500, the Voice of America (VOA) reported. The UN humanitarian agency said Friday ....
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Trump invites Palestinian president to White House
Date: 2017-03-11 07:13:14 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:6671325
US President Donald Trump on Friday invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a visit to the White House, said the spokesman for the Palestinian president, Nabil Abu Rudeineh. During a phone conversation, President Trump invited President ....
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Int’l coalition jets kill three Daesh leaders in Mosul
Date: 2017-03-11 07:11:58 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6671317
The US-led international coalition's warplanes attacked important sites occupied by Daesh terrorists in Mosul and killed three senior leaders, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Friday. In a press release, the ministry's spokesman, Laith ....
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FSA-SDF clashes in Rif Aleppo end up with casualties
Date: 2017-03-10 09:26:31 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:6667529
Free Syrian Army (FSA) sources said on Friday that fierce clashes broke out between the Ankara-backed FSA and the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in various parts of Rif Aleppo in northern Syria, leaving behind many people killed ....
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26 Houthis, pro-Saleh militants killed in army attack on Nahm
Date: 2017-03-10 09:02:36 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6667369
More than 26 militants of Houthis and supporters of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed and scores injured in an attack by the Yemeni army and popular resistance on militia posts in Nahm, east of Sanaa. Spokesman for the Popular ....
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US Marines deploy artillery battery to Syria
Date: 2017-03-09 09:05:06 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:6660877
The United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat Daesh in Raqa, the capital of their supposed caliphate, a US official said as quoted by CNN. The official said troops from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit ....
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Daesh leader Abu bakr Baghdadi flees Mosul
Date: 2017-03-09 07:55:18 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6660237
Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reportedly alive but flushed from his stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a Pentagon official said. The Iraqi native is said to have abandoned his diehard fanatics who have been battling Iraqi forces for ....
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30 people killed across Syria Wednesday - Local committees
Date: 2017-03-09 07:52:53 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:6660213
About 30 people were killed in shelling and clashes across Syria over the past 24 hours, the Syrian local coordination committees said on Thursday. The opposition committees said the death toll included five children and five women, according to ....
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Lieberman to visit US to meet Trump administration officials
Date: 2017-03-07 09:58:42 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:6647317
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman boarded a flight to the United States on Monday night for a meeting with officials in the Donald Trump administration. The defense chief is scheduled to meet with US Vice President Mike Pence, his ....