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  • December 24, 2016

    Palestinian prisoners end hunger strikes after 90 days

    Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Abu Farah and Anas Shadid announced the suspension of their hunger strikes on Thursday, following an agreement with the Israeli military prosecution that the two would...

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  • December 24, 2016

    Palestinian teen succumbs to wounds 2 months after being shot by Israeli forces

    After being shot in the head by Israeli forces during clashes in October, 16-year-old Palestinian Fares Ziad Al-Bayed succumbed to his wounds yesterday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of...

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  • December 23, 2016

    Turkish official rules out reconciliation with Egypt

    Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus has reaffirmed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unwavering position towards Egypt. “The convergence of views between Egypt and Turkey require several steps,” Kurtulmus said....

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  • December 23, 2016

    Saudi women condemn link between working and divorce

    Saudi women have taken to social media to contest figures released by the General Authority of Statistics indicating that women who do not work are less likely to get...

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  • December 23, 2016

    30 Houthi and Saleh fighters killed on Saudi border

    Saudi military forces yesterday intercepted an attack carried out by Yemen’s Shia Houthi militia group and its allies near the kingdom’s borders, Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya reported. According to...

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  • December 23, 2016

    Assad thanks Russia for being main partner in Aleppo

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for having been Syria’s main partner in the retaking of Aleppo from rebel forces, and said the city’s...

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  • December 23, 2016

    Fatah MPs protest in Gaza

    A number of Fatah lawmakers held a protest yesterday in the Palestinian Legislative Council Square in Gaza City to condemn a recent decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to...

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  • December 23, 2016

    US commander says forces embedding more to help Iraqis retake Mosul

    US forces assisting Iraqi troops to retake Mosul from Islamic State are embedding more extensively, a senior commander said on Friday, a move that could accelerate a two-month-old campaign...

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  • December 23, 2016

    Lessons learnt from the fall of Aleppo

    Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011, the government restricted independent media outlets and barred international news agencies from covering the anti-government protests. As a result, a...

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  • December 23, 2016

    Turkey: A letter from the Russian ambassador’s assassin

    A letter written by the man who killed the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, has been found by investigators, Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Harun Kodalak revealed According to...

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