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Fourth batch of gunmen starts to leave al Waer neighborhood - SANA

Date: 2017-04-08 09:39:04 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:6758166

DAMASCUS, April 8 (MENA) - The fourth batch of gunmen and some of their family members who rejected to join the reconciliation agreement started to leave on Saturday al Waer neighborhood in a step towards evacuating the area from arms and gunmen and ....

Arab coalition intercepts 10 ballistic missiles over Mocha

Date: 2017-04-08 09:28:10 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:6758125

ADEN, April 8 (MENA) - Arab coalition defense forces managed to intercept 10 ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militias at the Yemeni port city of Mocha, in Taiz governorate, said security sources on Saturday. In Shabwah governorate, the ....

US strike on Syria strengthens regional terrorism: Iran's president

Date: 2017-04-08 09:26:15 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:6758160

TEHRAN, April 8 (MENA) - President Hassan Rouhani has censured the US for a recent missile strike against an airbase in Syria, saying the aggression will boost terrorism in the region and strengthen lawlessness and instability in the world, the ....

Syria deputy FM condemns "unjustifiable" US strike near Homs

Date: 2017-04-08 08:39:50 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:6758042

DAMASCUS, April 8 (MENA) - Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has condemned the “unjustifiable” US missile strike near Homs, stressing his government is not responsible for the chemical attacks which left more than 80 Syrian men, women ....

Russia regards any use of chemical weapons "inadmissible"

Date: 2017-04-08 06:46:12 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:6757933

MOSCOW, April 8 (MENA) - Russia considers absolutely inadmissible any use of chemical weapons, those guilty of such crimes must be held responsible, Sputnik news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as having said. "Russia consistently ....

2 Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace

Date: 2017-04-07 22:38:59 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:6757817

BEIRUT, April 7 (MENA) - An Israeli reconnaissance plane violated the Lebanese airspace over Naqoura, and made circular flights off Beirut and its suburbs on Friday, a communiqué by the Lebanese army said. Another Israeli drone also entered the ....

Kuwait denounces Stockholm truck attack

Date: 2017-04-07 21:26:47 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:91 - ID:6757792

KUWAIT CITY, April 7 (MENA) - Kuwait denounced on Friday the deadly truck attack in Stockholm that killed at least five people. In press statements, an official at the Foreign Ministry voiced Kuwait support to the Sweden government in measures ....

Syrian jets take off from air base US missiles struck, according to Syrian observers

Date: 2017-04-07 21:23:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:90 - ID:6757787

LONDON, April 7 (MENA) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian warplanes took off from an air base which was hit by US cruise missiles on Friday, and carried out air strikes on rebel-held areas in the eastern Homs countryside, ....

'US aggression' aims to disrupt Syria's political, field progress - former official

Date: 2017-04-07 21:17:33 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:89 - ID:6757767

CAIRO, April 7 (MENA) - Syria's former information minister Mahdi Dakhlallah on Friday said the recent "US aggression" on Syria aimed at disrupting the country's political and field progress, especially after restoring Aleppo from ....

S. Korea supports US airstrike on Syria

Date: 2017-04-07 20:00:27 GMT - south korea - Arab world - SN:84 - ID:6757741

SEOUL, April 7 (MENA) - South Korea on Friday expressed its backing of the US airstrike against an air base in Syria as it denounced the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Yonhap reported. South Korea "has a firm stance that the use and ....