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  • Iraqi officer, Daesh militants killed in Kirkuk clashes

    Date: 2017-05-30 15:37:54 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:6834331

    BAGHDAD, May 30 (MENA) - A number of Daesh militants were killed in clashes with Iraqi police in al Dabs district of Kirkuk Tuesday. One police officer was also killed by a gunshot in the face-off. The militants attempted to kidnap a person ....

  • 11 Daesh militants killed in clashes with Syrian army in Deir Ezzor

    Date: 2017-05-30 15:13:25 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:6834261

    DAMASCUS, May 30 (MENA) - Eleven Daesh militants were killed Tuesday in fierce clashes with units of the Syrian army, backed by air force, in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor. The militants were killed in an intensive strike on the terrorists' movement ....

  • 15 killed, 52 injured in Daesh attack in Syria's Deir Ezzor

    Date: 2017-05-30 13:19:33 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:6833913

    DAMASCUS, May 30 (MENA) - Fifteen people were killed and 52 others, mostly children and women, injured when Daesh terrorists fired rocket and mortar shells on al Qusur and al Jourah neighborhoods in Syria's Deir Ezzor, SANA reported. Deir Ezzor ....

  • Abul Gheit condemns Baghdad bombings

    Date: 2017-05-30 12:32:11 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:6833944

    CAIRO, May 30 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday condemned the recent bombings that took place in Karada district in central Baghdad claiming the lives of scores of people and injuring many others. In a statement ....

  • UN envoy confers with Libyan PM

    Date: 2017-05-30 11:46:51 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:6833808

    TRIPOLI, May 30 (MENA) - Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Martin Kobler met with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj to express solidarity with the people of Tripoli, the Presidential Council and Government of National ....

  • Attempt to smuggle drugs from Syria into Jordan thwarted

    Date: 2017-05-30 09:28:55 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:6833614

    AMMAN, May 30 (MENA) - Jordanian border forces foiled an attempt to smuggle an amount of drugs via the Syrian lands into Jordan. In a statement by the Jordanian Armed Forces General Command, a military source said two persons tried to cross from ....

  • 60 Houthi, pro-Saleh elements killed in Yemen

    Date: 2017-05-30 09:13:00 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:6833542

    ADEN, May 30 (MENA) - More than 60 elements of Houthi militias and forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Salah were killed in Taiz and Naham, northeast of Sanaa. Al Arabiya Al Hadath Channel quoted medical and military sources as ....

  • Daesh claims responsibility for central Baghdad's Shuhada Bridge attack

    Date: 2017-05-30 08:29:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:6833522

    BAGHDAD, May 30 (MENA) - The terrorist Daesh group claimed responsibility for a blast that took place near Shuhada Bridge in central Baghdad on Tuesday, Sky News Arabia reported. Earlier, Iraqi security sources said that at least 22 persons were ....

  • 22 killed, injured in blast in central Baghdad

    Date: 2017-05-30 08:28:42 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:6833512

    BAGHDAD, May 30 (MENA) - At least 22 persons were killed and injured in a car bomb blast on Tuesday in central Baghdad, Iraqi security sources said. Sky News Arabia quoted the sources as saying Tuesday that the blast took place near Shuhada ....

  • 37 killed, injured in car bomb attack in Central Baghdad

    Date: 2017-05-30 08:18:42 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:6833436

    BAGHDAD, May 30 (MENA) - At least 11 persons were killed and 26 others injured on Monday evening when a booby-trapped car went off in Central Baghdad's Karada district. Sky News Arabia quoted a security source as saying that security forces ....

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