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  • Iranian FM due in Kuwait Sunday

    Date: 2015-07-25 09:12:44 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:3037933

    KUWAIT CITY, July 25 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to arrive here on Sunday as part of a Gulf tour that will take him also to Qatar and Iraq. He is scheduled to hold meetings with senior officials of the three ....

  • AL contacting members to set date for meeting on joint force protocol

    Date: 2015-07-25 09:11:18 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:3037797

    CAIRO, July 25 (MENA) - The Arab League is contacting member states to set a date for a meeting of foreign and defense ministers to ratify a protocol to form a joint Arab military force, MENA learned. The AL has sent memos to Arab states ....

  • Saudi-led coalition pounds Houthi sites in Yemen

    Date: 2015-07-25 09:01:43 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:3037861

    SANAA, July 25 (MENA) - Saudi-led coalition airstrikes pounded yesterday several sites affiliated to the Houthis and forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Houthi fighters allied with army units loyal to former president Ali ....

  • US-led alliance destroys workshops for exploding cars in Iraq

    Date: 2015-07-25 09:00:41 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:3037777

    BAGHDAD, July 25 (MENA) - The US-led alliance destroyed the biggest workshops for exploding cars in central Fallujah in Anbar province, announced the joint special operations command. The biggest workshop for exploding cars were destroyed by the ....

  • Tunisia foiled attempt to assassinate Libyan acting interior minister, says Libyan government

    Date: 2015-07-25 08:25:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:3037445

    TRIPOLI, July 25 (MENA) - The Libyan government affirmed that the Tunisian authorities foiled a plot to assassinate Libyan acting Interior Minister Mustafa Dabbashi. Meanwhile, the Tunisian Interior Ministry denied the news, saying that there was ....

  • Humanitarian conditions in Zabadani 'very difficult' - SOHR

    Date: 2015-07-25 07:22:18 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:3037105

    DAMASCUS, July 25 (MENA) - The humanitarian conditions in the Syrian border town of Zabadani became very difficult in light of the siege imposed by the regime, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Syria has been witnessing deadly ....

  • UAE contributes to re-operating electricity in Aden

    Date: 2015-07-25 06:48:59 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:3036997

    ADEN, July 25 (MENA) - A UAE vessel laden with a generator arrived at Aden Port in the wee hours of the morning Saturday to re-operate electricity in the governorates of Aden, Lahij and Abyan. The UAE Red Crescent bought 17 generators which will ....

  • Tunisia denies attempt on Libyan interior minister's life in Tunis

    Date: 2015-07-24 17:15:02 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:3036021

    TUNIS, July 24 (MENA) – Tunisia has denied media reports of a plot to assassinate Libyan Interior Minister of the Tobruk-based government Mustafa al Dabashi. "These reports are false and groundless," the Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a ....

  • 51 Daesh militants killed in Iraq

    Date: 2015-07-24 17:09:23 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:64 - ID:3035989

    BAGHDAD, July 24 (MENA) – Iraqi joint forces backed by Iraqi warplanes and the US-led international coalition on Friday killed 51 Daesh militants in Anbar and Salahuddin provinces. Coalition warplanes carried out 16 sorties, killing 24 Daesh ....

  • Iraqi forces free village in eastern Ramadi from control of Daesh

    Date: 2015-07-24 15:00:36 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:3035273

    BAGHDAD, July 24 (MENA) - The Iraqi forces managed Friday to free a village in Ramadi from the control of Daesh terrorist group. In press statements, Federal Police Chief Ra'ed Shaker Jawdat said that security forces freed the Tel Mashihida ....

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