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Clashes continue around Tripoli airport
Date: 2014-08-16 07:42:39 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:876148
Fierce clashes and heavy bombing were reported in the early hours of Saturday in the Libyan capital. Tripoli International Airport has been exposed to violent armed clashes between Zantan revolutionaries, who control the airport, and Islamist-led ....
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EU foreign ministers agree to arm Kurds in Iraq
Date: 2014-08-16 06:52:04 GMT - Belgium - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:876075
EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have agreed to arm Kurdish fighters battling Islamist militants in northern Iraq, Sky News reported on Friday. Prior to the meeting, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands all said they ....
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Kurdistan to probe defeat in fight against militants
Date: 2014-08-15 18:17:08 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:875775
Kurdistan president Masoud Barzani said on Friday that a committee will be formed to punish officials who failed to defend Sinjar Mountain in a fight against Islamist militants. In statements quoted by the Iraqi news agency, Barzani asserted that ....
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Tunisian president meets Hamas delegation
Date: 2014-08-15 18:15:00 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:875774
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki met on Friday with a Palestinian delegation from Hamas movement. During the meeting, the delegation briefed Marzouki on the latest developments in the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli attacks since July ....
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Sudan's Bashir leaves hospital after second knee surgery
Date: 2014-08-15 14:18:49 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:875553
Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir checked out of a hospital in Khartoum on Friday after undergoing his second knee operation in three months on Monday. The same Sudanese medical team which performed surgery on his right knee at Royal Care Hospital ....
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Palestinian support moral, humanitarian, national duty, says Algerian president
Date: 2014-08-15 12:00:57 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:875321
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asserted his country's support to the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip which has been hit by Israeli airstrikes for more than a month before the Palestinians and Israel reached a five-year ....
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Nasrallah: ISIL would be in Beiruit if Hezbollah not intervened in Syria
Date: 2014-08-15 11:55:56 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:875315
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that if Hezbollah hadn’t intervened in Syria at the right time, ISIL would be in Beirut now. During an interview with a Lebanese newspaper, Nasrallah said intervention in Syria aimed at ....
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UN lauds Maliki for relinquishing power in Iraq
Date: 2014-08-15 11:12:22 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:875235
The United Nations (UN) has lauded Nouri al-Maliki’s decision to step down as Iraq’s prime minister as indicative of his commitment to democracy. The world body’s special representative for Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, said in a statement, “The ....
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41 killed, wounded in Iraqi air strikes
Date: 2014-08-15 11:08:01 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:875227
Eleven people have been killed and 30 more injured in military raids on western Kirkuk. Sky News carried the news Friday without giving further details. The US embassy here has confirmed that Iraq got more than 15 million pieces of artillery ....
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Maliki gives up his post, announces support to successor Abadi
Date: 2014-08-15 06:29:45 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:874840
Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki has announced his resignation from the post of Prime Minister of the embattled state, Sky News satellite channel reported Thursday. Also, he said that he supported his nominated replacement in the post, Haider al-Abadi. ....
