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November 13, 2016

IMF board approves Egypt’s $12 billion loan agreement

Egypt won International Monetary Fund approval on Friday for a three-year, $12 billion bailout program aimed at reviving a struggling economy, bringing down public debt and controlling inflation while...

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November 13, 2016

Exposed: Victims of Daesh chemical attacks

The skin on five-year-old Doaa’s legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack. She is still in severe pain and tries not to touch...

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November 13, 2016

Fragile army gains in Mosul leave residents exposed

The fierce ebb and flow of battle in Mosul’s eastern districts is leaving residents feeling in constant threat, even after army advances in their neighbourhoods, as counter-attacks by Daesh jihadists...

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November 13, 2016

Iraqi troops recapture Nimrud, site of Assyrian city

Iraqi soldiers have captured Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian city overrun by Daesh militants two years ago, Reuters reported a military source saying. “Troops from the Ninth Armoured...

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November 13, 2016

Turkey halts activities of 370 groups with suspected ‘terrorist’ links

Turkey has halted the activities of 370 non-governmental groups over their alleged terrorist links following a failed coup in July. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus defended the ban on...

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November 13, 2016

Turkish-backed forces destroy 24 Daesh targets in Syria

Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces have taken control of six more residential areas from Daesh, according to an army statement on Sunday Anadalu Agency reported. Within the scope of Operation Euphrates...

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November 13, 2016

Free Syrian Army arrives within two kilometers of Daesh-controlled Al-Bab district

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have launched a new phase in Operation Euphrates Shield to liberate Aleppo’s northeastern district of Al-Bab. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents at the...

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November 13, 2016

Human Rights Watch: Iraqi Kurds’ destruction of Arab villages could be war crime

Iraq’s Kurdish security forces have unlawfully destroyed Arab homes and villages in northern Iraq over the past two years in what may amount to a war crime, rights group...

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November 13, 2016

Yemen: Scores of Houthis killed near Saudi border

Scores of Houthi rebels were reportedly killed in artillery shelling near the border with Saudi Arabia on Sunday as the two-year conflict deepened in war-torn Yemen. In a statement,...

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November 13, 2016

Halawet el-jibn

Honestly, for a long time, I didn’t think the awesomeness that is halawet el-jibn could be made at home. No one I knew had ever made it and everyone...

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