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  • March 19, 2017

    Last Iraq veteran who fought Israel in 1948 passes away

    The last Iraqi soldier to have fought against Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War that saw the establishment of the State of Israel and the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Turkey accuses Germany of backing failed coup

    Turkey today accused Germany of supporting the network of a US-based Turkish Muslim maverick cleric it blames for last year’s attempted coup, comments likely to aggravate a diplomatic feud...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Trump has invited Sisi to visit the US in April

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, Egyptian state-owned...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Hundreds protest in Beirut against Lebanon tax hike

    Hundreds of people protested in central Beirut today against proposed tax rises that the Lebanese parliament is considering to fund a new wage increase for public employees. Carrying placards...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Facing flagging support, Hezbollah criticises UN as ‘weak’ over Israel apartheid report

    The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah Shia jihadist movement denounced the United Nations yesterday as weak after the withdrawal of a report accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime”...

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  • March 19, 2017

    London comes out against war in Syria

    Hundreds of people marched across London yesterday in solidarity with the Syrian people and their struggle against long-time ruler Bashar Al-Assad. The protests, which began at lunchtime, passed through...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Gaza courts sentence 2 drug traffickers to death

    A court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced two drug dealers and traffickers to death today, the first such punishment handed down by the Palestinian judiciary in a narcotics...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Haftar’s forces claim victory in battles in east Libya

    East Libyan forces said they captured the final holdout of Islamist-led rivals in the southwest of Benghazi yesterday, ending weeks of resistance by fighters camped in a cluster of...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Iraq army closes in on famous Mosul mosque, civilians flee

    Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at Daesh positions in Mosul’s Old City today as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of...

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  • March 19, 2017

    Civilians bear brunt of US, Iraq assault on Mosul

    Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly three kilometres...

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