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  • Arab League backs Lebanon against terrorism

    Arab League backs Lebanon against terrorism

    Date: 2014-08-04 16:11:52 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:63 - ID:858169

    The Arab League strongly supports efforts by the Lebanese army to fight terrorist and Takfiri groups in the eastern city of Arsal, Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi said. Arabi also extended condolences to the country over the death of Lebanese ....

  • Libyan MPs sworn in

    Libyan MPs sworn in

    Date: 2014-08-04 15:28:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:57 - ID:858099

    More than 170 member of the Libyan parliament sworn in on Monday. Representatives of the Arab League, the African and European Unions as well as Islamic Labor Organization attended the event. The event will be succeeded by electing a ....

  • Libya enters new phase after parlt election  - AL

    Libya enters new phase after parlt election - AL

    Date: 2014-08-04 15:27:27 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:858096

    Libya has entered a new phase after its people elected a new parliament, Arab League representative at the Libyan parliament Fadel Jawad said. Speaking at the opening session of the newly-elected House of Representatives on Monday, Jawad said ....

  • Libya's new parliament holds 1st session in eastern city

    Libya's new parliament holds 1st session in eastern city

    Date: 2014-08-04 11:43:59 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:857511

    Libya's new parliament held its first session in the eastern city of Tobruk. Authorities had failed to hold the session in Tripoli or Benghazi due to deadly clashes between rival militias there. The lawmakers are scheduled to discuss the ....

  • 4 soldiers kille in Yemen ambush

    4 soldiers kille in Yemen ambush

    Date: 2014-08-04 09:43:37 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:857247

    Four Yemeni soldiers were killed in an ambush by Al Qaeda gunmen in Hadhramout Province in eastern the country, Sky news reported. No further details were available. Yemen faces continued attacks by Al-Qaeda operatives who are controlling ....

  • Hamas does not trust

    Hamas does not trust "humanitarian truce" of Israel

    Date: 2014-08-04 09:30:09 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:857109

    Hamas considered Israel's one-sided announcement of "a humanitarian truce" in Gaza an attempt to divert the attention away from the Israeli massacres against the Palestinians. Hamas does not trust such a truce, said Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu ....

  • Israel police attack Muslim worshippers at Al Aqsa mosque

    Israel police attack Muslim worshippers at Al Aqsa mosque

    Date: 2014-08-04 08:42:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:857115

    A large force of Israeli police stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque on Monday through Al Magharba gate and fired stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets at worshipers inside, wounding a number of them. Witnesses said police attacked the ....

  • Tensed calm in Lebanon's Arsal

    Tensed calm in Lebanon's Arsal

    Date: 2014-08-04 08:24:32 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:857085

    A tensed calm prevailed over the Lebanese border town of Arsal near Syria amid reports of a humanitarian truce as part of an initiative to free soldiers in exchange for a militant withdrawal, local reports told MENA. Eight Lebanese soldiers were ....

  • 7 Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza

    7 Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza

    Date: 2014-08-04 08:20:50 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:857077

    Seven Palestinians from one family were killed on Sunday in a new Israeli massacre in the Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza Ashraf al-Qudra said the seven martyrs were rushed to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya along with ....

  • Khaled Meshaal supports temporary cease-fire for humanitarian purposes

    Khaled Meshaal supports temporary cease-fire for humanitarian purposes

    Date: 2014-08-04 08:07:01 GMT - Qatar - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:857028

    Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas political office, said he would support a temporary cease-fire for humanitarian purposes. In an interview with the CNN channel, Meshaal said he would only support a long-term cease-fire if Israel changes its policy ....

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