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February 15, 2017

Iraq: Renewed tensions between Sadr supporters and security forces

Iraqi forces today returned mock coffins laid in memory of protesters killed during Saturday’s violent clashes in Baghdad’s Tahrir square, following fears that their removal would make the security...

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February 15, 2017

Iraq car bombing kills 12 in Baghdad

At least 12 people were killed when a car rigged with explosives exploded in eastern Baghdad today, a security official said. Captain Nazhan Al-Khudar, of Baghdad police, told the...

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February 15, 2017

Erekat: Only alternative to two-state solution is single democratic state

The only alternative to the two-state solution is a single democratic state where Jews, Muslims and Christians can live as equals, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Saeb...

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February 15, 2017

6,000 Iraqi civilians return to homes in eastern Mosul

More than 6,000 displaced Iraqi civilians have returned to their homes in areas recently recaptured from Daesh in eastern Mosul, according to an Iraqi aid official. Iraqi forces have...

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February 15, 2017

Jubouri: Iraq keen to establish close ties with Russia

Iraq is keen to establish close ties with Russia, Parliament Speaker Saleem Al-Jubouri said today. Speaking during a meeting with the Russian Ambassador to Iraq, Maxim Maximov, Al-Jabouri said...

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February 15, 2017

UN slams Israeli president’s support for annexing settlements

The United Nations yesterday criticised Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s support for the application of Israeli sovereignty over major settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, and the granting of...

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February 15, 2017

Netanyahu wants a war that he knows he can’t win

Benjamin Netanyahu wants another war; a war in “self-defence”, of course, but a war nonetheless. Fresh from defending himself from rock-throwing teenagers and the lo-tech home-made rockets of Hamas,...

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February 15, 2017

Syria regime denies HRW report about chemical weapons in Aleppo

Damascus “utterly rejects” a recent Human Rights Watch report that said its military and allied forces had used chemical weapons during their capture of Aleppo last year, Syrian state...

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February 15, 2017

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei criticises president on economy

Iran’s president must do more to improve the economy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today in a rare public criticism from the supreme leader three months before Hassan Rouhani runs...

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February 15, 2017

Turkey, Saudi share ‘identical’ interests in the region

Ties between Saudi Arabia and Turkey are set to scale new heights as their interests align on key regional issues following talks between King Salman and Turkish President Recep...

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