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  • 36 terrorists killed in Ben Guerdane confrontations

    36 terrorists killed in Ben Guerdane confrontations

    Date: 2016-03-08 07:41:02 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:4465413

    Thirty six terrorists have been killed in an ongoing operation in the border city of Ben Guerdane, said a joint statement published by the Ministries of National Defense and the Interior. Seven terrorists were arrested in the raids, added the ....

  • Egypt officially nominates ex-FM for AL chief's post - Foreign Ministry

    Egypt officially nominates ex-FM for AL chief's post - Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2016-03-08 07:27:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:4465349

    Egypt's Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed that the country submitted an official note to the Arab League (AL) nominating former foreign minister Ahmed Abul Gheit for the post of the General Secretariat of the 22-member body. Spokesman for the ....

  • Sisi renews support for Tunisia following terrorist attack

    Sisi renews support for Tunisia following terrorist attack

    Date: 2016-03-08 07:05:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4465253

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi phoned his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi to offer condolences over the casualties of a terrorist attack on military and security facilities in Ben Guerdane city. Sisi asserted Egypt's condemnation of the ....

  • Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for NW Pakistan suicide attack

    Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for NW Pakistan suicide attack

    Date: 2016-03-07 11:39:29 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:10 - ID:4459993

    A splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed eight people and injured 14 others in the country's northwest Charsadda district on Monday morning, Shanghai Daily reported. "We have carried ....

  • PM approves sunken artifacts display at British Museum

    PM approves sunken artifacts display at British Museum

    Date: 2016-03-07 11:00:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:4459549

    Prime Minister Sherif Ismail approved sending 293 Egyptian artifacts to be displayed the British Museum's exhibit of "Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds" large-scale between May and December 2016. The artifacts include 22 objects from the ....

  • Tunisian PM summons defense, interior ministers for urgent meeting on terror

    Tunisian PM summons defense, interior ministers for urgent meeting on terror

    Date: 2016-03-07 09:58:32 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:4458717

    Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid on Monday called the defense and interior ministers for an urgent meeting in the wake of a terrorist attack against the country's national guard barracks in Ben Gardan city close to the borders with Libya at ....

  • 25 soldiers killed, injured in clashes in Benghazi

    25 soldiers killed, injured in clashes in Benghazi

    Date: 2016-03-07 08:40:59 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:4458089

    Four Libyan soldiers were killed and 21 others injured in clashes in Benghazi with members of Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shura Council and Ansar al Sharia. The hospital received four bodies and 21 injured soldiers over the past two days, Media ....

  • Palestinian injured by Israeli army in central Gaza

    Palestinian injured by Israeli army in central Gaza

    Date: 2016-03-07 08:00:48 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:4457757

    A Palestinian youth was injured when Israeli forces opened fire at him Monday in Moghazi camp in central the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian ambulance transferred the young man to a hospital in central Gaza after bleeding for a while, local sources ....

  • Israel allows Gazan to visit their relatives at Ramon prison

    Israel allows Gazan to visit their relatives at Ramon prison

    Date: 2016-03-07 07:59:52 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:4457749

    Israeli forces allowed Monday families of scores Gazan prisoners to visit them in Ramon prison. As many as 90 relatives of the Gazan detainees, including 24 children, headed for Beit Hanoun crossing early Monday, spokesperson for the ....

  • US conferred with Iran before Iraq invasion, Book Says

    US conferred with Iran before Iraq invasion, Book Says

    Date: 2016-03-07 07:44:36 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:4457685

    Senior American officials held confidential talks with Iran about Iraq’s future in advance of the United States-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and secured a promise that the Iranian military would not fire at United States warplanes that ....

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