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  • 34 Libya Dawn forces killed, 48 wounded - official

    34 Libya Dawn forces killed, 48 wounded - official

    Date: 2015-02-04 07:47:56 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:1890653

    Some 34 Libya Dawn forces were killed and 48 others wounded by Libyan forces near the country's largest oil port of Sidra on Tuesday, a Libyan army commander said. Clashes near the port are still going on between Dawn forces, an Islamist militia ....

  • Queen Rania mourns death of Jordanian pilot

    Queen Rania mourns death of Jordanian pilot

    Date: 2015-02-04 07:40:47 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:1890593

    Queen Rania mourned on Wednesday the killing of pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh by Daesh militan group. The captured pilot was burnt alive in a cage by Daesh militants, triggering off anger in Jordan and forcing the government to execute two Iraqi ....

  • Jordan executes 2 Iraqi militants after pilot death

    Jordan executes 2 Iraqi militants after pilot death

    Date: 2015-02-04 07:39:12 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:1890589

    Jordan executed on Wednesday two Iraqi militants, including a woman, following the killing of a Jordanian pilot by Daesh militants, according to a statement by the Jordanian Interior Ministry. Sajida al Rishawi and Ziad Karbouli were executed in ....

  • 91 Daesh terrorists killed in clashes with Iraqi security forces

    91 Daesh terrorists killed in clashes with Iraqi security forces

    Date: 2015-02-03 18:23:10 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:73 - ID:1888661

    Iraqi security forces and air forces have killed 91 members of the terrorist Daesh group including a senior leader in Salaheddin Province. Spokesman for Iraqi Interior Ministry Maj.-Gen. Saad Mo’en said they killed Daesh's field commander in ....

  • UN ‘alarmed’ by photos of Daesh labels on its Syria food aid

    UN ‘alarmed’ by photos of Daesh labels on its Syria food aid

    Date: 2015-02-03 17:26:46 GMT - Italy - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:1888269

    The United Nations food agency expressed alarm over images circulating on social media showing its food aid being distributed from boxes bearing the logo of the Daesh terrorist group, Al Arabiya News reported on Tuesday. The World Food Programme ....

  • Russian embassy seeks to release 2 kidnapped pilots in Darfur

    Russian embassy seeks to release 2 kidnapped pilots in Darfur

    Date: 2015-02-03 17:24:33 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:1886289

    The Russian embassy in Sudan is cooperating with the Sudanese government and the UN mission in the country "UNAMID" to seek the release of two Russian pilots kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. The pair are employed by Russia's UTair company and ....

  • 26 Daesh militants killed in Iraq

    26 Daesh militants killed in Iraq

    Date: 2015-02-03 16:42:27 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:1886185

    Iraqi security forces killed on Tuesday 26 Daesh militiamen in Anbar province, western Iraq. Also, warehouses filled with bombs and weapons were raided south of the capital Baghdad, according to security sources. Meanwhile, local sources said ....

  • Tunisian president receives Arab parl't speaker

    Tunisian president receives Arab parl't speaker

    Date: 2015-02-03 16:41:26 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:60 - ID:1888021

    Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi received Tuesday visiting Head of the Arab Parliament Ahmed Mohamed al Jarwan . The meeting took up the situation in the Arab world and the mechanism of the joint Arab work. In a post-meeting statement, ....

  • OIC slams Israel for ongoing settlement policy

    OIC slams Israel for ongoing settlement policy

    Date: 2015-02-03 15:46:44 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:1887625

    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has slammed Israel for the ongoing policy of building settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands. The continuation of building settlements is "a war crime," the OIC said in a statement on ....

  • Qurei, US consul general in al Quds confer on latest developments in Palestine

    Qurei, US consul general in al Quds confer on latest developments in Palestine

    Date: 2015-02-03 15:24:40 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:1887429

    Member of Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee Ahmed Qurei conferred with US Consul General in al Quds Michael Ratney on the latest developments in Palestine. Qurei apprised Ratney of the Israeli practices against the ....

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