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July 28, 2015

Oman will not participate in Joint Arab Force

The Sultanate of Oman will not participate in the Joint Arab Force, Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Alawi announced on Monday. “Omani armed forces are forbidden to operate outside the...

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July 28, 2015

Veteran South African activist Denis Goldberg: Israel ‘an apartheid state’

South African Jewish anti-apartheid stalwart Denis Goldberg believes the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the use of separate laws for different groups of people makes Israel an apartheid state....

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July 28, 2015

Libya: Gaddafi’s son sentenced to death

A Libyan court sentenced Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and two other former leaders to death on Tuesday. The appellate court sentenced Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler Muammar Gaddafi,...

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July 28, 2015

War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction

The Iraqi war canon has been overtaken by American military accounts. US military titles have been published and promoted with regularity while war literature by Iraqi authors has consistently...

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July 28, 2015

OIC: Violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque feed extremism

The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Amin Madani has strongly condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremist settlers under the protection of the...

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July 28, 2015

Tension mounts between Egyptian intelligence services over Sinai

Tension is mounting between Egypt’s general and military intelligence agencies, the two main arms of the North African country’s national security apparatus due to overlapping jurisdictions in the fight...

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July 28, 2015

Saudi transfers $60m to the PA

The Saudi ambassador to Egypt Ahmed Abdulaziz Qattan announced that the kingdom will support the Palestinian Authority’s budget with $60 million. Qattan said in a statement released by the...

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July 28, 2015

UNRWA has not decided to suspend the school year

Director-General of the Department of Palestinian Affairs in the Jordanian government Mahmoud Al-Aqrabawi yesterday held an urgent meeting with service and consultative committees in the Palestinian refugee camps to...

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July 28, 2015

Saudi minister slams ‘aggressive’ Iranian statements

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister condemned what he described as “aggressive statements” by Iran on Monday after Tehran accused Bahrain of stoking tension in the region. A spokeswoman for the...

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July 28, 2015

Let’s be realistic about Kurdistan; it’s a deeply unpleasant autocracy

In May last year, who in the West had heard of the “Peshmerga”? Wasn’t that a kind of scarf? No, the BBC, CNN and Sky News told us, these...

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