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October 16, 2016

Syrian rebels seize Dabiq from Daesh

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey captured the symbolically important village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria from Daesh early on Sunday after clashes, Ahmed Osman, head of the Sultan Murad...

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October 16, 2016

Saudi replaces Iraq envoy who riled Shia militias

Saudi Arabia on Sunday replaced its envoy to Iraq whose comments about Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs led to diplomatic tension with Baghdad. Thamer al-Sabhan in 2015 became the...

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October 16, 2016

The West is shirking its responsibility to refugees and missing out

The recent Amnesty International reports on which countries take the most refugees is somehow both shocking yet totally predictable at the same time. What is most shocking about it...

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October 16, 2016

Egyptian sets fire to himself protesting against Sisi

A man set himself on fire in Alexandria, Egypt, yesterday in an apparent protest against government policy. Twitter users published videos of the incident where the man can be...

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October 16, 2016

Layali libnan

It can get really cold and dreary in London, and everyone has that one recipe that reminds them of summer; mine is Layali Libnan. Whenever I feel down and...

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October 15, 2016

Iraqi ‘celebrity’ Shia militant threatens Erdogan

A well-known Iraqi militant who fights for the Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) has threatened to “pop in the head” if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists...

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October 15, 2016

Highlighting Israeli violations of a world heritage site is not ‘inflammatory’, UNESCO, it’s a duty

A draft decision by UNESCO, which criticises Israel’s activities at holy places in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, has been denounced by Israeli officials. “It ignores thousands of...

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October 15, 2016

Details emerge after Saudi is murdered in Cairo

A Saudi man whose decomposing body was found in his flat in Cairo, Egypt, was strangled with a piece of cloth until he died, according to reports. The body...

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October 15, 2016

Erdogan slams Iraq over failures to deal with Daesh

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today that Iraq was incapable of driving Daesh from the city of Mosul by itself, and that the presence of Turkish forces in...

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October 15, 2016

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