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November 23, 2014

Iraqi official says US not fighting ISIS ‘seriously’

Neither the coalition forces nor the US are serious in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Head of Iraq’s Parliament Security Committee Hakim al-Zamili...

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November 22, 2014

Iran trains volunteers to fight ISIS

Reports in Turkey claim that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have trained Iraqi volunteers to fight against ISIS. Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that the news was confirmed by...

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November 22, 2014

Unidentified aircraft target Islamist bases in Libya

Unidentified aircraft have targeted several military bases controlled by Fajr (Dawn) Libya forces in the west of the country, a military source and witnesses told Anadolu news agency. The...

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November 22, 2014

Iranian imam criticises Egypt for closing Rafah crossing

Delivering the Friday sermon in Tehran, Iran’s Ayatollah Ahmed Al-Jannati criticised the Egyptian government for closing the Rafah Border Crossing and setting up a military buffer zone along the...

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November 22, 2014

Negotiations to end all peace…

Following the historical recognition by the Swedish government, British legislators voted overwhelmingly on a non-binding resolution urging their government to recognise the state of Palestine. Ireland’s Seanad and Spain’s...

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November 22, 2014

Senior Egyptian figure detained for turning down reconciliation with the regime

Informed sources have disclosed that the Egyptian authorities have detained Dr Muhammad Ali Bishr, a prominent figure within the Alliance for Supporting Legitimacy, because he turned down a reconciliation...

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November 22, 2014

Abbas calls on Israel not to turn conflict into ‘religious war’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Friday for the Israeli government not to turn the Palestine-Israel conflict into an “open-ended religious war”, it has been reported. According to...

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November 22, 2014

Palestinian Prime Minister says Hamas is the security body in Gaza

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamadallah has said that Hamas is the “real security authority” in the Gaza Strip, and called for it to reveal the details of those who...

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November 22, 2014

Interim president insists democracy does not come out of autocracy

The interim president of Tunisia, Moncef Al-Marzouqi, insisted on Friday, “The one who kept silent or practiced autocracy for years cannot build democracy today.” His speech at the end...

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November 22, 2014

Israel’s strategy: between mowing the grass or uprooting it

Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good…so far so good…so...

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