PALESTINE: The pile of rubble that Latifa Naji used to call home has become an unlikely symbol in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two-story cement house in the Al-Amari refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has been demolished by the Israeli army four times, most recently this month, as punishment for attacks carried out by…
‘Biggest terrorism sponsor’ Iran spends $1 billion a year on global proxies: US report WASHINGTON: Iran remained a top state sponsor of terrorism around the world in 2018, the State Department said in its annual terrorism report on Friday.A briefing by the department’s counter-terrorism spokesman Nathan Sales showed the regime funnels nearly a billion dollars…
JERUSALEM: Israel has approved the construction of 2,342 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday.It said the decision was taken on October 10 and that 59 percent of the new homes will be erected in “settlements that Israel likely may evacuate under a peace agreement” with the Palestinians.According…
JERUSALEM: Israel has approved the construction of 2,342 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday.It said the decision was taken on October 10 and that 59 percent of the new homes will be erected in “settlements that Israel likely may evacuate under a peace agreement” with the Palestinians.According…
SALE: A Moroccan court has sentenced a fourth local man to death for the Islamic State-linked murder of two Scandinavian university students hiking in the Atlas Mountains.In an appeals hearing, the court also confirmed death sentences for terrorism and murder it had previously imposed on another three Moroccans over the young women's brutal slaying.All four…
GCC defense ministers: Al-Baghdadi’s killing important step in eliminating Daesh’s cells RIYADH: The death of Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is an important step in eliminating the terrorist organization's cells, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) defense ministers said on Wednesday. Gulf defense ministers also condemned the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais that took place in September,…
RIYADH: UAE troops have ended their mission in Aden and transferred military control to Saudi and Yemeni forces. The announcement from the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces brings to an end more than four years of operations in the city and province in southern Yemeni. The Emirati troops arrived in Aden in 2015…
RIYADH: UAE troops have ended their mission in Aden and transferred military control to Saudi and Yemeni forces. The announcement from the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces brings to an end more than four years of operations in the city and province in southern Yemeni. The Emirati troops arrived in Aden in 2015…
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri submitted his resignation on Tuesday in response to widespread protests against the country's leaders. In a TV address to the nation Hariri said he had reached a “dead end,” and that he would submit his resignation to President Michel Aoun. Lebanon has been rocked by demonstrations against corruption and the countries political leaders. On Monday…
NAJAF: The Iraqi cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr joined thousands of demonstrators in the holy city of Najaf on Tuesday amid a spiralling political crisis sparked by deadly anti-government protests.At least 240 people have died and 8,000 been wounded since demonstrations broke out on Oct. 1 over unemployment and corruption, before evolving into calls for the government…
NAJAF: t Iraqi cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr joined thousands of demonstrators in the holy city of Najaf on Tuesday amid a spiralling political crisis sparked by deadly anti-government protests.At least 240 people have died and 8,000 been wounded since demonstrations broke out on Oct. 1 over unemployment and corruption, before evolving into calls for the government…
BAGHDAD: Iraqi authorities imposed a curfew from midnight to 6 a.m. in Baghdad on Monday, as renewed anti-government protests raged for a fourth day. The Baghdad security command announced the curfew as protesters clashed with security forces in the capital's central Tahrir Square. At least 72 protesters have been killed since demonstrations in Baghdad and across the…
BEIRUT: Syrian Kurdish forces said Monday they are increasing security at prisons and detention facilities holding tens of thousands of Daesh militants and supporters, including foreigners, following the death of the extremist group’s leader in a US military raid.The heightened security also comes as Kurdish forces said they are continuing operations to hunt down Daesh…
BEIRUT: Syrian Kurdish forces said Monday they are increasing security at prisons and detention facilities holding tens of thousands of Daesh militants and supporters, including foreigners, following the death of the extremist group’s leader in a US military raid.The heightened security also comes as Kurdish forces said they are continuing operations to hunt down Daesh…
MOSUL: Five years after he made their hometown infamous as the heart of his “caliphate,” residents of Iraq’s Mosul said Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s death should be marked only one way — with “a huge party.”In June 2014, Al-Baghdadi climbed a set of stairs at the Al-Nuri Mosque in the northern Iraqi city and declared himself…
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that fugitive Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi had died in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, in a major blow to the jihadist group.Al-Baghdadi killed himself during the raid by detonating a suicide vest, Trump said in a televised address from the White House.Here are reactions…
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that fugitive Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi had died in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, in a major blow to the jihadist group.Al-Baghdadi killed himself during the raid by detonating a suicide vest, Trump said in a televised address from the White House.Here are reactions…
ZURICH: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes over his country’s military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and UN investigator Carla del Ponte said in an interview published on Saturday.Del Ponte, a former member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said Turkey’s intervention had broken international law and…
BAGHDAD: Several hundred demonstrators gathered in central Baghdad on Saturday, brandishing Iraqi flags and calling Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi a "worm", after a day of violent protests in which at least 46 people were killed. Some 200 of the protesters had camped out overnight in the capital's central Tahrir Square, and were cleaning up the area.…
BAGHDAD: At least 63 people have died in two days of anti-government protests in Iraq's capital and across its south, a national rights watchdog said Saturday. The Iraqi Human Rights Commission said the highest tolls from clashes since Friday were in the southern provinces of Dhi Qar and Missan. Protests in the south have taken a…
