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Lebanese Defense Minister Yaacoub Sarraf said his country was prepared to ward off any strikes by Israel on its territories. Sarraf made the strong-worded comment after Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, brandished remnant of Iranian drone saying that his country Read more
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, deplored the lack of interest and support for mutual and impartial humanitarian access to Syrian people urging European and Gulf States to spend more to help the war-torn Read more
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated the state’s rejection of current US proposals as “unacceptable”. This was an apparent reference to a maritime demarcation line proposed by US diplomat Frederic Hof in 2012. The line would give Lebanon around two Read more
Russian deputy ambassador to Tel Aviv brushed off Israeli authorities’ claims that the drone which was destroyed last Saturday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was launched by Iran, saying that Iranians in Syria are not ‘insane’. Saturday the IDF Read more
A court in Istanbul Friday pressed life in prison sentences against several leading journalists and figures suspected of providing assistance to July 2016 failed military coup blamed on US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. A trio of prominent Turkish writers and Read more
Pakistan has sent troops to Saudi Arabia on a training mission after it refrained to do so in the past years, but the Pakistani military clarifies that the troops will not be deployed in conflict zones outside the kingdom. Riyadh Read more
The UN expressed concern over the return of normal life in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, citing the presence of thousands of mines in the wake of the defeat of the Islamic State group (IS). For Pehr Lodhammar, program director Read more
The Egyptian army said it has foiled an infiltration attempt by an armed group on the Libyan borders and destroyed ten 4×4 vehicles in the operation. “The air force succeeded in foiling an infiltration attempt by 10 4×4 vehicles loaded Read more
Pledges by donors at the Iraq reconstruction conference held in Kuwait this week have failed to meet up the government’s close to $90-billion budget needed to rebuild the country in the aftermath of victory over the Islamic State group (IS). Read more
A Tunisian MP from a left-wing opposition party Tuesday tore an Israeli flag in the Parliament premises to protest the normalization of ties with Israel. Ammar Amroussia ripped up the flag after the parliament indefinitely delayed the debate of a Read more