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The Iraqi army launched a combing operation in Anbar’s deserts towards the Saudi borders to clear the area of remaining ISIS elements. Iraq announced the end of IS in Iraq last December after a military offensive that ousted the terrorist Read more
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned the Syrian regime against the use of chemical weapons after reports of chlorine gas being used by Assad forces against civilians in Eastern Ghouta surfaced. Mattis did not rule out a military action Read more
Arab Foreign ministers have called for the setting up of a multilateral mechanism under the auspices of the United Nations to sponsor the peace process in the Middle East. This came in a resolution issued Thursday at the end of Read more
The Israeli army said Friday it hit a Hamas position in Gaza Strip after the Islamist movement allegedly launched a missile late on Thursday towards the Jewish state. An Israeli aircraft hit a position of Hamas in the enclave in Read more
South Africans in the city of Johannesburg have marked the 17th birthday of Ahed al-Tamimi, a Palestinian teenage girl who has become a global icon in Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation following her arrest late last year. Al-Tamimi marked her Read more
The US State Department Wednesday announced the inscription on the US list of terror groups and individuals of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Gaza-based Hamas movement that it accuses of the killing of 17 American citizens. The State department claimed Haniyeh Read more
The United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, which is facing an acute funding shortage, is seeking more than $800 million for its emergency programs for Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The appeal would enable the United Nations Relief and Read more
German foreign minister Wednesday in Tel Aviv told Israeli officials that his country will move its embassy to Jerusalem only when Palestinians too will have their state by the side of Israel. “Germany is looking forward to the day when Read more
The Syrian National Dialogue Congress, kicked off in Sochi on January 29 with pro-Assad delegates dominating the event. The dialogue brings together 1,500 pro-regime delegates and few opponents of the Syrian government. A key delegation of the armed opposition had Read more
Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has been taken into custody by French police after two women filed rape charges against him, media reports said. Ramadan has denied the allegations and filed Read more