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  • Shell fired from Syria into Golan -- Israel

    Shell fired from Syria into Golan -- Israel

    Date: 2014-09-01 09:43:57 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:900789

    A mortar shell fired from the Syrian side of the border landed in the Golan Heights, Israeli media reported. The shell landed in the town of Ein Zivan, on Monday. The incident follows renewed fighting near the Israeli border between Syrian ....

  • Hamas official says employees of Gaza govt to cash salaries Wednesday

    Hamas official says employees of Gaza govt to cash salaries Wednesday

    Date: 2014-09-01 09:41:52 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:900783

    A member of Hamas' political bureau, Moussa Abu Marzouk said Monday that employees of the sacked Gaza government will start cashing their salaries on Wednesday, just like Palestinian Authority employees. Marzouk, who arrived in Gaza Thursday ....

  • Libya denounces Erdogan remarks on Parliament

    Libya denounces Erdogan remarks on Parliament

    Date: 2014-09-01 09:19:04 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:900542

    The Libyan Foreign ministry on Sunday denounced statements of Turkey's president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Libyan parliament. In a television interview after his inauguration ceremony, Erdogan has criticized the Libyan parliament, ....

  • Biden, Barzani confer on US air strikes on Amirli village in northern Iraq

    Biden, Barzani confer on US air strikes on Amirli village in northern Iraq

    Date: 2014-09-01 08:42:53 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:900642

    In a phone call, US Vice President Joe Biden conferred with President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Masoud Barzani on the US air strikes on Amirli village in northern Iraq and the relief supplies offered to the Iraqis there. Both sides showed ....

  • Berri calls on Lebanese to unite in face of Israeli threat, takfirist terrorism

    Berri calls on Lebanese to unite in face of Israeli threat, takfirist terrorism

    Date: 2014-09-01 08:31:47 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:900616

    Terrorism is not a security matter but an issue of national significance, and there is no fear over Lebanon, for it shall return to being an oasis of democracy in the East and a garden of freedom, said Lebanon's House Speaker Nabih Berri. Berri ....

  • US ambassador to Libya denies reports on embassy storming

    US ambassador to Libya denies reports on embassy storming

    Date: 2014-09-01 08:25:33 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:900600

    US Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones on Sunday denied reports that militants took control over the American embassy in Tripoli. In a message on Twitter, Jones said the video appeared to have been shot in at the embassy’s residential annex, ....

  • Haniyeh hails Egypt role in Gaza ceasefire

    Haniyeh hails Egypt role in Gaza ceasefire

    Date: 2014-09-01 07:35:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:900507

    Deputy Chief of Hamas' Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh paid tribute to the role of Egypt in reaching a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported. Haniyeh asked Egyptian intelligence officials in a phone call to push Israel ....

  • 12 dead in Islamist attack on Somali prison

    12 dead in Islamist attack on Somali prison

    Date: 2014-09-01 06:55:38 GMT - Somalia - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:900445

    Islamist rebels dressed in government military uniforms approached the gate of a high security prison in Mogadishu on Sunday, set off a car bomb and fired their way into the building, eyewitness Farah Mohammed told CNN. They were Al-Shabaab ....

  • Palestine may push for deadline to end occupation

    Palestine may push for deadline to end occupation

    Date: 2014-08-31 15:26:13 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:899941

    President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority may use the global stage of the annual General Assembly here in a few weeks to publicly demand a deadline for ending Israel’s occupation, according to his ambassador, while expecting that the ....

  • New Syrian cabinet sworn in before Assad

    New Syrian cabinet sworn in before Assad

    Date: 2014-08-31 14:32:04 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:899852

    Members of the new Syrian Cabinet were sworn in before President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. The Syrian News Agency (SANA) carried the news without giving further details. ....

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