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  • Car bomb blast leaves 7 injured in Benghazi

    Date: 2017-08-04 14:25:27 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:6930258

    BENGHAZI, Aug 4 (MENA) – Seven persons were injured in a car bomb blast outside a mosque in Sidi Faraj district, Benghazi, Alwasat news website reported Friday. Sources at Benghazi's Jalaa Hospital confirmed that the hospital received seven ....

  • Syria: Eight killed in airstrike by US-led coalition on Raqqa

    Date: 2017-08-04 13:57:39 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:6930179

    LONDON, Aug 4 (MENA) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that eight persons were killed, while others wounded in airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition on sites belonging to Daesh terrorist group in Raqqa ....

  • Daesh enforces compulsory conscription in Deir Ezzor - Syrian sources

    Date: 2017-08-04 13:52:17 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:6930130

    DAMASCUS, Aug 4 (MENA) - The terrorist group of Daesh has imposed compulsory conscription in Syria's Deir Ezzor as the Syrian army is tightening its grip on the province, according to Syrian sources. The group circulated a statement stating that ....

  • 25 decomposed bodies found in mass grave in Libya's Sirte

    Date: 2017-08-04 12:30:00 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:6929986

    TRIPOLI, Aug 4 (MENA) - Twenty-five decomposed bodies were found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, Alwasat news website reported Friday. Sirte Mayor Mukhtar al Maadani told the Libyan website that he made a visit to the location of the ....

  • Saudi-led coalition shells Houthi secret training camp

    Date: 2017-08-04 11:38:54 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:6929901

    SANAA, Aug 4 (MENA) - Saudi-led coalition warplanes shelled Friday a secret camp in Sanhan district used to train militias loyal to the Houthi rebels and former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the news website Barakish reported. The report ....

  • Saudi-led coalition forces intercept two ballistic rockets in Yemen's Mocha

    Date: 2017-08-04 11:17:35 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:6929891

    ADEN, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Saudi-led coalition forces have intercepted two ballistic rockets launched by the Houthi and Saleh militias into Mocha city in western Taiz, Sky News Arabia channel reported Friday. The channel did not give further ....

  • 7 persons killed in car bomb blast in Aleppo

    Date: 2017-08-04 10:09:21 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:6929788

    DAMASCUS, Aug 4 (MENA) – Three Syrian civilians and four elements of al Nusra Front were killed in a car bomb blast that rocked Aleppo’s western countryside near a stronghold of the group, local sources said. The explosions also left several people ....

  • Yemeni forces tighten grip on various Houthi sites in Taiz

    Date: 2017-08-04 09:03:59 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:6929723

    ADEN, Aug 4 (MENA) – The Yemeni army took control of the center of Mocha city in western Taiz after clashes with militias loyal to Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, during which eight militants were killed, a Yemeni military source ....

  • Saudi army thwarts Yemen's Houthi attack near border

    Date: 2017-08-03 20:16:39 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:75 - ID:6929426

    RIYADH, Aug 3 (MENA) – Saudi forces managed to foil an attempt by Houthi militants to attack a Saudi border city in Jazan Region, military sources said. The forces, according to Al Arabiya TV, killed dozens of Houthi members in a border village ....

  • FM leaves Khartoum for Cairo

    Date: 2017-08-03 20:07:08 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:6929450

    KHARTOUM, Aug 3 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry left here Thursday after a two-day visit. During the visit, Shoukry co-chaired meetings of the political consultation committee between Egypt and Sudan along with his Sudanese counterpart ....

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