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Iraq

WHO: Saudi Media Claims on Iraq Report “Unfounded”

World Health Organization strongly slammed on Sunday allegations made by the London-based Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on the religious ceremonies in Iraq, denouncing the mention of its name in an “unfounded” news. The Saudi newspaper caused uproar in Iraq after publishing a fabricated report by the WHO viewed as fueling ...

November 21, 2016

Iraq

This Is How ISIL Used to Execute People of Iraq’s Tal Afar

Media Bureau of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces posted images revealing the criminal nature of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group. On its Twitter account, the PMF showed the way ISIL used to follow in executing the people of Tal Afar city in Mosul province. ...

November 21, 2016

Yemen

Yemeni Army: Saudi-Led Coalition Violates Ceasefire, Uses Banned Arms

Despite ceasefire announced in Yemen, Saudi-led coalition have been staging air strikes and using internationally-banned weapons, Yemeni army said late on Sunday. Army spokesman, Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman, said that the Saudi-led coalition have violated the 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen for 114 time since it took effect on Saturday. “The ...

November 21, 2016

Turkey

Turkey Protesters Rally against Crackdown on Pro-Kurds

Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday against a crackdown on MPs from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party and municipal chiefs in the southeast. At least 5,000 people — mainly supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) — gathered on the ...

November 20, 2016

Syria

Moallem: De Mistura’s Suggestion of Aleppo Autonomous Zone Completely Rejected

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Sunday said Damascus completely rejects UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura’s proposal to establish an autonomous zone in east Aleppo. “This was completely rejected… This is a violation of our sovereignty,” he said in a televised news conference after holding talks with ...

November 20, 2016

Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan Warns NATO on Sheltering ‘Terrorist’ Plotters

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned NATO against sheltering “terrorist” soldiers after Turkish officers in the alliance’s command reportedly sought asylum after a failed putsch. “How can a terrorist, a terrorist soldier, a soldier who has been involved in plotting a coup, be employed in NATO?” Erdogan told ...

November 20, 2016

Syria

Aleppo Terrorists Kill, Injure Dozens in School Rocket Fire

Aleppo terrorists committed on Sunday a new massacre, killing and injuring many people in a rocket fire that targeted a school in the city’s west. 10 people were killed, including seven children and a woman in rocket fire on a school in al-Furqan neighborhood. SANA reported the attack, saying that ...

November 20, 2016

Turkey

Erdogan Says Turkey Can Spurn EU and Join Shanghai Pact

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey should not be “fixated” on joining the EU and has reiterated the idea of joining Russia and China in a Eurasian security group, local media reported Sunday. His comments come as Turkey’s decades-long hopes of joining the European Union have reached a nadir, driven ...

November 20, 2016

Iraq

Millions Throng Holy Karbala for Abaeen Commemoration

Millions of faithful are flocking to the holy Iraqi city of Karabla for the commemoration of Arbaeen, the world’s largest rally of devotion. Arbaeen marks 40 days since Ashura when Imam Hussein (a.s.), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), was martyred in Karbala along with his 72 companions 14 centuries ago. Monday will mark the final ...

November 20, 2016

Syria

At Least 17 Killed, Dozens Injured in E. Aleppo As Terrorists Disperse Protesters with Machine Gun Fire

At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the terrorist blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Some 500 civilians took part in several protests in ...

November 19, 2016