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5 soldiers killed in western Iraq
Five soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi volatile province of Anbar on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the town of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing five soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...
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Iran denies dispatch of military forces to Syria DM
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi denied Saturday that Iran has dispatched any military forces to Syria, semi-official Fars news agency reported."The Islamic republic of Iran has not sent and will not dispatch any military forces to Syria," Vahidi said, adding that Tehran only supports consolidation of peace and tranquillity in Syria and in the region.The Iranian ...
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Roadside bomb kills 2 policemen in southeast Yemen
A powerful roadside bomb killed two policemen in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout on Saturday, a provincial security official told Xinhua.The bomb was planted in the main road in the Shehar town in Hadramout province and blew up while a military truck carrying the policemen passed by, leaving two soldiers killed and three others injured, the local security official said on ...
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Egypts top court rejects election law as unconstitutional
Egypt's top court on Saturday rejected the election law submitted by the Shura Council, or the upper house of the parliament, citing unconstitutionality of some of its articles, official news agency MENA reported.The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) said the law, which would govern the lower house elections if approved, was unconstitutional as it allowed unfair representation, religious ...
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6 Iranian pilgrims killed in car bombing in Iraq
Six Iranian pilgrims were killed and some 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Salahudin province north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, a provincial police source said.The attack occurred in the afternoon when a booby-trapped car struck a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.The ...
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3 killed in clashes in north Lebanon
Three people were killed and another four injured in the clashes on Saturday morning between gunmen from rival neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli, local security told Xinhua.The source said that the fighting erupted again at dawn spiraled out of control in the morning with fighters from Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawite Jabal Mohsen using rockets and other heavy weapons, bringing the ...
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Pressure for talks on Syrias opposition
Syria's opposition National Coalition has for three days been trying to overcome divisions over Russian and US proposals to convene a peace ...
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Abbas to form new Palestinian govt within weeks
/enpproperty--> RAMALLAH - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he intends to form a new government within two to three weeks, according to local media. The Bethlehem-based news agency Maan quoted Abbas as saying on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum held in Jordan that he will announce the new cabinet lineup within two or three weeks. Abbas didn't give ...
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Senate panel oversteps on Syria
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has injected itself into U.S. foreign policymaking regarding Syria. And it's not the first time lawmakers have moved to pressure a president to take a momentous step that could involve U.S. lives and ...
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Church Leaders Beg for Peace in Syria
As Much as 25% of Christian Population Displaced or GoneLONDON, April 15, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham is begging for peace in Syria, saying the country's "suffering has gone beyond all bounds."The Damascus-based patriarch estimates that, since the conflict broke out two years ago, up to 400,000 Syrian ...
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Yemen Makes Strides in Transition to Democracy
For more than two months, 565 people representing a cross section of ...
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Rand Paul Senate Is Arming Al-Qaeda and Rushing to War in Syria
"This is an important moment. You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda." That was the declaration Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.; pictured) made on May 21 ...
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Hezbollah promises ‘victory’ in Syria conflict
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the ...
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Deaths of the no-state Palestinians are Proportional to Life of the Two State Solution.
conflict" are similar to those from other individuals and organizations whose thinking is misdirected due to a conviction that the solution must consider Zionism and Zionism leads the solution. His article, The Donkey of the Messiah, published on May 11, 2013, and circulated throughout the Internet, solicits examination and rebuttal, and for more reason than because his arguments ...
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Hezbollah Syria push for gains in rebel stronghold
seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese ...
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Abbas under pressure to start talks without preconditions
PA official: Western FMs pressure Abbas to return to negotiating table even if Israel doesn't commit to settlement freeze, accept pre-1967 lines; PA president fails to update PA officials on meetings with ...
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Israel and Palestine Consequences of Deterrence
"Deterrence has to be maintained," said Gabi Siboni, a colonel for strategic affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "It was only a question of time until this moment arrived." It seems the Palestinians are of like mind. As things stand, this latest round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was probably inevitable. Escalation and ...
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New book tells untold stories from Iraq
Photojournalist Michael Kamber joins MSNBC's Craig Melvin and fellow photojournalists Carolyn Cole and Ed Kashi to talk about his new book, "The Untold Stories From Iraq: Photojournalists on War" (University of Texas Press, May ...
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Apology to Professor Amiram Goldblum
Apology to Professor Amiram Godlblum In July 2008 I published in my information site (www.imra.org.il) a piece against Prof. Amiram Goldblum, wrongly attributing to him activity to bring back a convicted terrorist to continue his PhD studies at Hebrew University. The source of this false information was the journalist Gil Ronen, who quoted in part a totally wrong story by the journalist ...
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Hague on Syrian Crisis Hezbollah and Iran
Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat--During his Middle East tour last week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague focused on one major issue, namely the on-going Syrian crisis. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with Hague at the residence of Peter Millett, the British Ambassador in Jordan. In this interview, Hague talked about the "Geneva 2" conference's chances of success, the difficultly of finding a ...
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Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq
As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...
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Hezbollah confirms involvement in Syria conflict for the first time
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is fighting alongside the government troops in Syria. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite Muslim group and it is backing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad who is from the minority Alawite sect – an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. During a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed for the first time the group’s involvement in the ...
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Syria’s River of Death
clashing along the frontline. Mohammed’s problem was that the frontline ran between the two places where he was buying and selling the clothes for his shop. So one morning in early March, Mohammed set out toward government-controlled territory, through checkpoints and the no-man’s land separating the two fighting forces, to buy merchandise. Many people cross the frontlines this way ...
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Excerpts Egypt Central Bank exceptional $ auction. Abbas hails
Excerpts: Egypt Central Bank exceptional $ auction. Abbas hails Kerry's efforts. Erdogan blames Syria for bombings.Failed Syria cyber attack on Haifa water.Israel re Syria border clashes. Hizbullah backs Assad troops in airport fighting May 25, 2013 +++SOURCE: Egypt Daily News 25 ...
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Syria opposition says kidnapped bishops in good health
In this undated combo picture released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church, left, and John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, right, who were kidnapped Monday, in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. (AP ...
Israel Focus
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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