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August 1, 2015

US green light for missile sale to Saudi Arabia

The US Department of Defence announced on Friday the approval of Saudi Arabia’s request to buy 600 patriot missiles worth $5.4billion, Anadolu news agency has reported. In a statement,...

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August 1, 2015

Extradition of senior Libyan official was ‘based on court ruling’

Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda movement said on Friday that the government led by its former leader Hamadi Jebali extradited the former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Mahmoudi al-Baghdadi in 2012 based on...

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August 1, 2015

EU calls for strict measures against settlers who killed Palestinian baby

The EU has called for strict measures to be taken against the extremist Jewish settlers whose arson attack burnt a Palestinian baby to death and injured three of his...

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August 1, 2015

Daesh will fall before the year end but the ideological war will still need to be won

Daesh, the self-declared “Islamic State”, will most likely not exist before the end of this year. Its effects, however, will last for a long, long time. Insurgencies are usually...

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August 1, 2015

Al Jazeera angered over postponement of Egyptian court verdict

The Al-Jazeera Media Network expressed its anger over the decision of an Egyptian court to postpone the re-trial verdict for the network’s journalists. The network regarded the postponement as...

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August 1, 2015

Egypt slams Israeli warning about attacking ‘terrorists’ in Sinai

Egyptian officials have criticised Israeli warnings about carrying out a “pre-emptive” strike against Wilayat Sinai (affiliated to ISIS), Quds Press reported on Friday. “These remarks have no value,” the...

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August 1, 2015

Abbas suggests referring Israel to ICC over arson murder

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the arson murder of baby Ali Dawabsheh and the injuries to his family are a direct result of Israel’s settlement policies,...

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August 1, 2015

The failure of political Islam?

In 1994, Harvard University Press published the English edition of a book by the eminent French political scientist Olivier Roy. The Failure of Political Islam had a powerful impact...

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August 1, 2015

Erdogan’s security dilemma

The 20 July bomb attack in Suruç made it clear that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing a long battle. The Daesh bombing of a leftist youth centre...

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July 31, 2015

Western powers need to tread carefully with Iran

When a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers was agreed this month, some predicted that it would lead to a wider thaw in relations with western countries....

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