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December 5, 2016

Syrian airstrikes kill 73 in opposition-held territory

Air strikes killed at least 73 people in the opposition-held territory of Idlib yesterday, reported Reuters news agency. Another 38 were killed in the city of Maarat Al-Numan, south...

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December 5, 2016

Iraq denies Daesh leader Baghdadi was killed

A senior Iraqi security source inside the country’s Nineveh province dismissed reports that the leader of Daesh, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, was dead, according to Russian news agency Sputnik. A...

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December 5, 2016

Palestinian Bedouins face Israeli discrimination from the river to the sea

Will they or won’t they and when? This has been the question being raised constantly over the past few weeks about Israel’s intention to expel the Bedouins of Um...

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December 5, 2016

Rights group urges UK PM to address Bahrain human rights abuses

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is being pressured to tackle Bahrain’s human rights abuses during her visit to the Gulf state. In a press release, the Bahrain Institute for...

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December 5, 2016

Saudi received 3m Syrians and Yemenis

Saudi has received nearly three million Syrian and Yemeni citizens escaping wars in their countries, the country’s Ambassador to Egypt, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan, said. The ambassador explained that...

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December 5, 2016

Netanyahu prevents Likud ministers commenting on settlements

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Likud ministers in his government not to make any comments on Israel’s illegal settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories until Barack...

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December 5, 2016

Syrian opposition tells US it will not leave Aleppo

Syrian opposition groups have informed the United States that they will not leave Aleppo, in response to Moscow’s calls for talks with Washington over their withdrawal from the besieged...

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December 5, 2016

Turkish prosecutor demands dismissal of Mavi Marmara case

The chief public prosecutor in the Mavi Marmara case has demanded that the Turkish judiciary should dismiss the prosecution of a number of Israeli officials in absentia over the...

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December 5, 2016

Hold your applause, Fatah, the Palestinian body politic is rotten to the core

In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a “traitor” who “betrayed the interests of the Palestinian People.” Arafat loathed Abbas to the...

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December 5, 2016

Ghannouchi: Political reforms provide ground for democratic Islam

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi said only true democracy can defeat destructive and erroneous readings of Islam. Speaking during the Mediterranean Dialogue Forum in the...

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