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Egypt

Egypt Hands Journalists One-year Suspended Jail Sentence

An Egypt appeals court on Saturday handed the former head of the journalists’ union and two members a suspended one-year jail sentence for “harboring fugitives”, a judicial source said. Yahiya Kallash, Gamal Abd el-Rahim and Khaled Elbalshy were sentenced to two years in prison in November for sheltering two journalists ...

March 25, 2017

Syria

UN Urges Iran, Russia, Turkey to Resume Syria Talks in Astana

The UN called on Iran, Russia and Turkey to convene a fresh round of peace talks between Damascus and opposition groups in Astana, Kazakhstan, to bring the situation on the ground under control amid increasing militant attempts to break into the heart of the Syrian capital in defiance of a ...

March 25, 2017

Iraq

Children from Mosul at the Khazir refugee camp.

Almost 4,000 Civilians Killed in Western Mosul since Mid-February

A total of 3,864 civilians have been killed in the western part of the Iraqi city of Mosul since mid-February, media reported citing Army Brig. Gen. Thaer Mosawi. “Those who have fled the combat areas are reporting high civilian casualties,” Mosawi told Anadolu news agency. He added that field hospitals ...

March 25, 2017

Turkey

Erdogan Slams German Intelligence Chief’s Comment on Gulen’s Role in Coup

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the statements of German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) chief Bruno Kahl about Turkey’s weak evidence base proving Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen’s involvement in the July 2016 coup attempt. On March 18, Kahl said in an interview with German Der Spiegel magazine that Ankara failed ...

March 25, 2017

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Embassy Confirms UK Attacker had been in Saudi Arabia

The man who killed four people outside Britain’s Parliament was in Saudi Arabia three times and taught English there, the Middle Eastern country’s embassy said. A Saudi Embassy statement released late Friday said that Khalid Masood taught English in Saudi Arabia from November 2005 to November 2006 and again from ...

March 25, 2017

Palestine

Gaza: Freed Detainee Mazen Faqha Assassinated with Four Bullets in his Head

Hamas official, Mazen Faqha, who was freed in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Zionist entity, was assassinated on Friday with four bullets being shot to his head. Faqha was released along with more than 1,000 other Palestinians in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli occupation soldier Hamas had detained ...

March 24, 2017

Yemen

Third of Yemen Provinces on Brink of Famine: UN

A third of Yemen’s 22 provinces are on the brink of famine, the UN said Friday, warning that 60 percent of the war-ravaged country’s population was going hungry. Yemen, long one of the world’s poorest nations, has seen its food security deteriorate dramatically since its civil war escalated two years ...

March 24, 2017

Syria

In Syria: Army Restores Infiltrated Areas in Jobar, Reinforces Defense of Hama

The Syrian army on Friday announced it had restored, with the help of allied forces, all points that terrorists infiltrated to in the northern part of Jobar neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Damascus and continued operations against terrorist organizations in various areas all over the country. The forces eliminated ...

March 24, 2017

Iraq

Iraqi Forces Control ISIL Command Center in Western Mosul

Iraqi government forces have managed to establish complete control over a command center run by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in central Mosul as the country’s armed forces battle to recapture the country’s second largest city and drive the extremists out of their last urban stronghold in Iraq. Commander of ...

March 24, 2017

Iran

US Sanctions 11 Firms, Individuals for Transferring Technology to Iran

The United States has imposed sanctions on eleven companies or individuals from China, North Korea or the United Arab Emirates for transferring technology to Iran that it claimed could boost the country’s ballistic missile program. The US State Department said on Friday nineteen more firms or individuals were sanctioned for ...

March 24, 2017