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  • July 9, 2016

    REVEALED: Leaked tapes expose Western support for renegade Libyan general

    A multinational military operation involving British, French and US forces is coordinating air strikes in support of a renegade general battling Islamist militia groups from a base near Benghazi...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Philippine leader slams US interventions in Middle East

     Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has blamed conflicts in Middle Eastern countries on foreign intervention, insisting that the United States “imported terrorism”. He told Muslim Filipinos attending an Eid al-Fitr...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Tony Blair and George Bush created Islamic State

    Thirteen years ago, Britain’s then prime minister Tony Blair relied on false evidence to justify taking the United Kingdom to war. For reasons perhaps better known to him than...

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  • July 8, 2016

    The week in pictures

    The last 7 days in pictures…...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Russian, Assad regime airstrikes kill 22 in North West Syria

    A total of 22 people were killed by Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes on residential areas in northwestern Syria’s Aleppo province late Thursday, a civil defense source reported. The...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Gaza: Two years on

    Two years on from the onset of Israel’s 51-day war on Gaza, life in the besieged Strip is virtually hopeless for the 1.8 million people living there. The 2014...

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  • July 8, 2016

    International exploitation of convenient timeframes

    The Middle East Quartet report released recently once again takes issue with settlements as an obstacle to peace, a reiteration that has become as obsolete as the two-state compromise....

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  • July 8, 2016

    What will the next UK PM do in the Middle East?

    There has already been much ink spilled over the potential impact of “Brexit” on the UK’s relationship with the Middle East (including several excellent articles published here on MEMO)...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Cairo mulls response to Rome sanctions over murder case

    Egypt is considering means of retaliating against a recent decision by Italy to stop providing it with military spare parts in response to the unsolved murder earlier this year...

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  • July 8, 2016

    Israeli police lift ban on settler forays into Al-Aqsa

     The Israeli police have lifted a ban on the entry of Israeli settlers into occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex after a 10-day hiatus, Israeli media reported Thursday. According...

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