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July 6, 2016

UK inquiry: Iraq invaded before peace options exhausted

Britain took part in the 2003 Iraq war on the basis of flawed intelligence and before peaceful options for disarming Saddam Hussein’s regime had been exhausted, a long-awaited inquiry...

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July 6, 2016

Gazans celebrate Eid in tenth year of blockade

Markets in the Gaza Strip witnessed a type of hysteria last night as shoppers prepared for Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Shoppers picked...

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July 6, 2016

Daesh cell jailed for up to 16 years in Belgium

Four members of a Daesh terrorist cell in Belgium were jailed for up to 16 years each on Tuesday. The cell, based in the eastern city of Verviers, had...

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July 6, 2016

Britain confronts Iraq war past

Most agree it is the families of British servicemen and women killed in the Iraq war who have waited the longest. When John Chilcot appears before television cameras on...

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July 6, 2016

Moscow to lift all restrictions on Turkey

Moscow will lift all restrictions on Turkey imposed in the aftermath of downing of a Russian jet when it violated Turkish airspace last November, Anadolu Agency reported. In an interview...

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July 6, 2016

3,000 Gazans enter Egypt in one week

Almost 3,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip entered Egyptian territory via the Rafah border crossing over the course of the last week, Gaza’s border authority said Tuesday. “In five...

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July 6, 2016

25 killed in bomb attack in northern Syria

Twenty-five people were killed in a bomb attack in northern Syria on Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency. The bomb in the Salihiya neighborhood of provincial capital Al-Hasakah exploded outside a...

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July 6, 2016

Iraq’s interior minister resigns

Iraqi Interior Minister Mohamed Salim al-Ghabban tendered his resignation on Tuesday citing the war-torn country’s dismal security situation, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at a press conference in Baghdad, al-Ghabban criticized...

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July 6, 2016

Islamic world decries triple bombings in Saudi Arabia

Regional political actors on Tuesday condemned a string of suicide attacks that rocked different parts of Saudi Arabia one day earlier, killing nine people. On Monday, three suicide bombers...

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July 6, 2016

Erdogan: Daesh a ‘dagger in chest of Muslims’

Daesh is a “dagger stabbed into the chest of Muslims”, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday following a series of bombings in Saudi Arabia blamed on the terror group,...

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