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  • 10 killed, injured in suicide attack in Yemen

    10 killed, injured in suicide attack in Yemen

    Date: 2014-06-14 09:09:50 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:777030

    Four Yemeni soldiers were killed in a car bomb which targeted an army site in a city in Yemen's Abyan province. A car bomb exploded in an army site in Mahfad city in Yemen , killing four soldiers and injuring four others. ....

  • Sudan opposition chief's daughters held at protest

    Sudan opposition chief's daughters held at protest

    Date: 2014-06-14 07:06:27 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:776828

    Sudanese police on Friday detained four daughters of opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi as they violently broke up a protest demanding freedom for political prisoners. "Police used violence and arrested 17 people including four daughters of Umma ....

  • Situation in Libya is disastrous: Haftar

    Situation in Libya is disastrous: Haftar

    Date: 2014-06-14 07:03:19 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:776823

    Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar said Friday that cooperation between the Operation Karama (Dignity) and Egypt is underway to deliver the terrorist elements who are wanted by Egypt. Speaking to Egyptian journalist and TV host Mustafa ....

  • Jordan advises citizens not to travel to troubled areas in Iraq

    Jordan advises citizens not to travel to troubled areas in Iraq

    Date: 2014-06-14 06:55:37 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:776812

    The Foreign Ministry of Jordan has called on its citizens in Iraq not to travel to places that witness deteriorating security conditions. In a statement on Friday, the ministry spokeswoman Sabah el-Rafaei said that contacts are underway with ....

  • Palestinian security has no control on area of kidnapped settlers: spokesman

    Palestinian security has no control on area of kidnapped settlers: spokesman

    Date: 2014-06-14 06:54:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:776810

    A Palestinian spokesman said the area in which three young Israeli settlers were kidnapped is witnessing detentions and security activities by the Israeli side and that the Palestinian security has no control on this area. In statements to MENA ....

  • "Libyan Revolutionaries" claims responsibility for shelling Haftar troops

    Date: 2014-06-14 06:45:54 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:776796

    The Libyan Revolutionaries Joint Operations Room claimed responsibility Friday for an operation against troops of Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi. The room said in a Facebook statement that Benghazi Revolutionaries targeted ....

  • UN: Iraq witnesses dramatic deterioration including executions and extrajudicial killings

    UN: Iraq witnesses dramatic deterioration including executions and extrajudicial killings

    Date: 2014-06-14 06:44:29 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:776794

    The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed extreme alarm at the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Iraq, including reports of summary executions and extrajudicial killings. Reports suggest that the number of ....

  • New MERS case reported in Saudi Arabia

    New MERS case reported in Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2014-06-13 17:26:53 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:776486

    The Saudi Ministry of Health reported a new coronavirus case on Friday. The number of infections with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) rose to 702, including 287 deaths, the ministry said. The first case was reported in the ....

  • Lebanon arrests 5 Syrians over terrorism charges

    Lebanon arrests 5 Syrians over terrorism charges

    Date: 2014-06-13 17:17:44 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:776466

    Five Syrians have been arrested in Lebanon's border town of Arsal for joining a terrorist group, the National News Agency reported Friday. "The army launched today wide raid operations in Arsal outskirts and arrested "Zaher Abdul Aziz al-Ahmad ....

  • Israeli forces storm Aqsa mosque, arrest Palestinians

    Israeli forces storm Aqsa mosque, arrest Palestinians

    Date: 2014-06-13 13:52:29 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:776176

    Israeli occupation forces arrested Friday two Palestinians and inflicted injuries to six other worshipers when the troops raided to Al-Aqsa Mosque's courtyards. The move came in an Israeli attempt to suppress worshipers who were hand in glove ....

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