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Iran’s top leadership Tuesday vowed to avenge the death of seven of its military advisers in Syria in Israeli airstrikes on a military base deemed a drone factory used by Iran. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s foreign policy advisor Ali Read more
The meeting, held Monday in Laayoune, southern Morocco, by political parties and all components of Moroccan society, sends “a strong message” to the international community and enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity, said Head of Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani. This Read more
Internationally recognized Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas Monday conditioned a return to besieged Gaza only when Hamas, which controls the enclave, hands it over to the Palestinian Authority (PA), nearly one month after PA Prime Minister escaped an assassination attempt. Abbas Read more
Paris Opera will help Saudi Arabia set up its own first opera and orchestra in a series of deals signed Monday between the two countries as the kingdom’s reformer; Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman undertakes a two-day visit to France. Read more
UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday briefed the emergency Security Council meeting following reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria over the weekend. The recent escalating violence across Syria, including allegations of chemical weapons use Read more
Syria, Russia, and Iran have blamed Israel for conducting air strikes on a Syrian air base in an act that reportedly killed 14 people including 4 Iranians and operatives of Lebanon-based Shia movement Hezbollah. Syria backtracked Monday after it accused Read more
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has denounced the chemical attack carried by the Syrian regime forces against civilians in the city of Douma (East of Damascus), killing dozens of children, women and men. The Rabat-based Islamic organization Read more
Israel’s defense minister Sunday condoned killing of unarmed Palestinians, including journalists, in Gaza as he argued that no one in the enclaved strip is innocent because of Hamas’s control of the besieged impoverished territory. Avigdor Lieberman, far-right member of the Read more
A Tunisian court has ruled against the participation of four Israeli athletes in an ongoing international competition after a group opposed to normalization of ties between the two countries sued the head of Tunisian taekwondo federation. The National Commission for Read more
Philippines’ national flag carrier Philippines Airlines (PAL) has announced plans to temporally put on hold its flights between Manilla and Kuwait City due to fall in travel demands following Manilla’s decision to halt deployment of Filipinas as house workers in Read more