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A successful military raid on an ISIS compound in Iraq by the Iraqi Kurdish rebels with the help of the U.S forces has incited U.S Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter not to rule out future similar missions since it allows Read more
A day after Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei posted on his website a letter on the nuclear agreement, President Rouhani hailed Khamenei’s stance as a “conditional approval.” He described Khamenei’s letter as a “stamp of approval” that will help authorities Read more
Fighting between pro-Hadi militants and the Houthi Movement has intensified in Yemen’s cultural capital, Taez, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the situation might get worse because basic utilities have been destroyed. The rival groups Read more
United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, adopted a resolution on Wednesday strongly condemning Israel’s actions in Jerusalem, mainly “Israeli aggression and illegal measures restricting freedom of worship and access to the holy Muslim site of the Al-Aqsa mosque.” The Israeli foreign Read more
President Erdogan said the 10 October double suicide attack considered as the most deadly in the country’s history is “a completely collective act” carried out by the Kurdish militants, ISIS and the Syrian intelligence. Erdogan made the claim in a Read more
Following Russia’s unwelcomed intervention in Syria, Qatar hinted that it could intervene in the war-torn country, probably in support of the rebels opposed to Assad’s regime, although it said it is rather for a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Read more
The head of the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC) Ayman Abbas announced that the participation rate in the first round of the parliamentary elections was at 26.55%, which is much lower than the rate scored during the 2011-12 parliamentary election held Read more
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad met Tuesday night in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during his first official trip outside his country since the beginning the civil war in 2011. Assad thanked Putin for his “help” in the Syrian conflict Read more
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was in Jerusalem on Tuesday in an unannounced visit and met with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as tensions continue in the West Bank and Jerusalem. He said his visit “reflects the Read more
The Libyan internationally recognised parliament based in Tobruk Monday rejected the UN-proposed unity government, ignoring the international community’s repeated calls to rival Libyan sides to endorse and quickly put in motion the UN-brokered peace roadmap. A majority of lawmakers in Read more