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  • Iraqi security forces recapture biggest ISIL shelter in Tikrit

    Iraqi security forces recapture biggest ISIL shelter in Tikrit

    Date: 2014-08-19 17:31:18 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:75 - ID:881764

    Iraqi security forces took control Salahuddin province building and the biggest ISIL shelter in Tikrit, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Spokesman for the Armed Forces Commander in Chief office Qassem Atta said the Army, supported by Air Force, ....

  • Gaza-based militant group put on US terrorist list

    Gaza-based militant group put on US terrorist list

    Date: 2014-08-19 17:16:56 GMT - USA - International - SN:74 - ID:881747

    An Islamist Palestinian group has been placed on the US terrorist black list, the State Department announced Tuesday. Since its founding in 2012, the "Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem" has claimed responsibility for a number ....

  • Jordan receives 452 Syrian refugees in two days

    Jordan receives 452 Syrian refugees in two days

    Date: 2014-08-19 17:01:50 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:881258

    Jordan's Border guards received about 452 Syrian refugees during the past 48 hours, an official source of the Jordanian armed forces said on Tuesday. In a statement, the source added that most of the refugees were women,children and elderly ....

  • Trial of 86 MB members in Kafr el-Sheikh adjourned till Saturday

    Trial of 86 MB members in Kafr el-Sheikh adjourned till Saturday

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:55:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:73 - ID:881719

    Kafr el-Sheikh Criminal Court on Tuesday adjourned until Saturday the trial of 86 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants face charges of assaulting people, using weapons and storming public institutions, following the ....

  • Egypt education min. meets Saudi amb.

    Egypt education min. meets Saudi amb.

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:51:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:72 - ID:881715

    Egypt's Education Minister Mahmoud Abul Nasr met on Tuesday with Saudi Ambassador in Cairo Ahmad bin Abdel Aziz al-Qattan. The meeting took up prospects of cooperation and ways of boosting scientific exchange between the two Arab countries, a ....

  • Israeli minister calls for Gaza regional rehabilitation conference, demilitarization

    Israeli minister calls for Gaza regional rehabilitation conference, demilitarization

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:48:38 GMT - Israel - International - SN:71 - ID:881710

    Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid called for a regional conference held prior to the international conference on the rehabilitation of Gaza, that would set a condition that "there is no rehabilitation without some sort of ....

  • Talks with Hamas don't serve Israel security interests - Minister

    Talks with Hamas don't serve Israel security interests - Minister

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:45:19 GMT - Israel - International - SN:70 - ID:881706

    Israeli Minister of the Interior Gideon Sa'ar said on Tuesday ceasefire talks with Hamas in Cairo "don't serve Israel's security interests, therefore, there's no point in continuing", Ynet news reported. Despite optimism following repeated ....

  • Party slams MB-affiliated alliance's calls for establishing anti-Egypt center in Turkey

    Party slams MB-affiliated alliance's calls for establishing anti-Egypt center in Turkey

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:33:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:69 - ID:881687

    The Constitution Party has slammed the so-called terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group's National Alliance to Support Legitimacy's calls for establishing a Turkey-based center for escalation against Egypt at the international level. Party ....

  • Silent protest of on stairs of Journalists Syndicte on anniversary of death of journalist

    Silent protest of on stairs of Journalists Syndicte on anniversary of death of journalist

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:22:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:68 - ID:881671

    Journalists held a silent protest on the stairs of Journalists Syndicate on the anniversary of the death of Tamer Abdel-Raouf, head of Ahram office in Behira. Abdel-Raouf was killed during a curfew in Damanhour. The participants called for ....

  • Hamas slams continued Israeli strikes on Gaza

    Hamas slams continued Israeli strikes on Gaza

    Date: 2014-08-19 16:19:38 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:881665

    Hamas Movement has slammed the continued Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. "We do not have any information about rockets fired from Gaza into Israel," Hamas movement spokesman Samy Abo Zahry said in statements Tuesday. He added that the ....

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