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Libyan, UK top diplomats meet in London
Date: 2015-08-22 07:57:34 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3201153
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed al Dayri met Friday evening with UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to discuss means of boosting bilateral cooperation. Talks in the British capital also took up ways to fight the terrorist Daesh group, according ....
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Libyan army chief arrives in Amman
Date: 2015-08-21 21:29:14 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:3200405
Head of the Libyan army, General Khalifa Haftar, arrived in Amman on Friday on an official visit, Petra News Agency reported. While in Amman, Haftar will meet with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff Gen. Mishal Al Zaben, the King's military ....
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Australia considering joining anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria
Date: 2015-08-21 08:02:27 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3196409
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday that he was considering a formal request from the United States for Australia to join air strikes in Syria against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, CBS News ....
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Israel demolishes residential building in occupied Jerusalem
Date: 2015-08-19 11:52:04 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:3185569
Israeli forces destroyed on Wednesday a residential building in the occupied Jerusalem under the pretext that it was unlicensed. Jerusalem sources said Israeli forces backed by bulldozers besieged the three-story building. During a storming ....
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Shaker to turn himself in 'when time is right': lawyer
Date: 2015-08-19 09:06:08 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:3184173
Pop singer-turned-militant fugitive Fadl Shaker is still hiding in the southern Palestinian camp of Ain al Hilweh and will turn himself in whenever he deems the time is right, his lawyer told The Daily Star. "He will hand himself over to ....
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South Sudan: US threatens sanctions over rejection of pact
Date: 2015-08-19 07:54:33 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3183625
The White House chastised President Salva Kiir of South Sudan for refusing to sign a peace agreement to halt that nation’s civil war, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The US threatened to pursue sanctions against “those who undermine the ....
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Houthis, Saleh militants shell residential areas in Taiz
Date: 2015-08-19 07:34:29 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:3183549
Houthi militias and troops loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh raided residential areas in Taiz early Wednesday. Sky News said the raids resulted in huge explosions that rocked the city. Meanwhile, the popular resistance and ....
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Abbas receives Israeli opposition leader
Date: 2015-08-18 14:55:38 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:3181049
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday received Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog in Ramallah. Abbas stressed the Palestinian side's commitment to the peace process based on the resolutions of international legitimacy for the ....
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Military source: Syrian army repels Daesh attack in Palmyra
Date: 2015-08-18 12:57:34 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:3179925
A Syrian army unit fended off Daesh attack on military sites in al Maqale' area in the eastern countryside of Palmyra city, Syrian military source said on Tuesday. The attack was foiled and scores of Daesh militants were killed and injured as ....
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Emergency AL meeting on Daesh crimes in Libya
Date: 2015-08-18 11:13:36 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:3178937
The Arab League held on Tuesday an extraordinary meeting under Jordan on means of confronting heinous Daesh crimes, especially in the Libyan city of Sirte. The meeting comes at a request from Libya, Jordan's permanent representative to the Arab ....
