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March 2, 2017

Swiss cement firm may have financed Daesh in Syria

LafargeHolcim said one of its cement plants probably paid protection money to armed groups in Syria to keep the factory running in the war-torn country, speculated to be Daesh...

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March 2, 2017

US steps up attacks on Al-Qaeda in Yemen

The United States has carried out airstrikes in Yemen targeting Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), two US officials said today, in what could be one of the first...

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March 2, 2017

Protesters reject creation of UAE military base in Somaliland

Scores of people demonstrated outside the UAE embassy in London today in protest against the establishment of an Emirati military base in Somaliland. Protesters carried banners in Arabic and...

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March 2, 2017

Kurds invade Iraq oil field, halt production

Crude flows from Iraq’s northern Kirkuk fields were resumed today after being halted for several hours when Kurdish forces stormed a facility in protest at the Iraqi government’s oil...

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March 2, 2017

Egypt clears Mubarak of charges of killing protesters in 2011 uprising

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has today been cleared of charges of killing protesters in the 2011 uprising that lead to his removal from power. After an all-day hearing,...

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March 2, 2017

New UN report brings prosecution of Syria war criminals closer

The Aleppo aerial campaign deliberately targeted hospitals and humanitarian convoys and constituted a war crime, a UN panel on Syria concluded yesterday. “Between July and December 2016, Syrian and...

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March 2, 2017

Russia accuses opposition of ‘sabotaging’ Syria talks

Russia accused the main Syrian opposition group at peace talks in Geneva of sabotaging the process today, a day after Moscow’s foreign ministry officials met the opposition factions for...

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March 2, 2017

The Middle East, America and Trump

Any attempt to predict with confidence what America’s foreign policy in relation to the Middle East will be during the presidency of Donald Trump is fraught with problems. On...

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March 2, 2017

YPG Kurds collaborate with Syria regime over Manbij

The Syrian leftist Kurdish separatist movement, the People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, have ceded control of territory around the northern city of Manbij that they currently...

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March 2, 2017

Abu Sitta: The PA is harmed by the revival of the PLO

The head of the general committee for the National Conference for Palestinians Abroad, Salman Abu Sitta, criticised the Oslo Accords and considered it more dangerous to the Palestinian people...

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