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Jordanian army chief, US military official discuss ties

Date: 2015-07-21 16:58:13 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:84 - ID:3019789

AMMAN, July 21 (MENA) -- Chairman of the Jordanian Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mashal Mohammad Al Zabin received on Tuesday Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East Major General Michael K. Nagata. Al Zabin and ....

France advises nationals in Turkey to be cautious

Date: 2015-07-21 16:56:49 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:83 - ID:3019681

PARIS, July 21 (MENA) - France has urged its citizens in Turkey to be on alert following a suicide attack in the city of Suruc on the borer with Syria. A suspected female Daesh had set off an explosion near a cultural center hosting youth ....

Jordanian army kills infiltrator, injures another on borders with Syria

Date: 2015-07-21 16:07:23 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:72 - ID:3019225

AMMAN, July 21 (MENA) – Jordanian border guards killed an Arab infiltrator and injured another during their attempt to sneak from Syria to Jordan. Jordanian armed forces Spokesman Mamdouh el Amry said that two people tried to infiltrate to Jordan ....

Iraqi parl't speaker terms Suruc massacre as "desperate attempt to destabilize region"

Date: 2015-07-21 15:21:38 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:3018865

BAGHDAD, July 21 (MENA) – Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al Jabouri termed the terrorist attack on a cultural center in Suruc city in Turkey near the Syrian border as “a desperate attempt to destabilize the region.” In press statements on ....

3 army, police personnel killed, 8 injured in Baghdad blast

Date: 2015-07-21 14:50:53 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:62 - ID:3018361

BAGHDAD, July 21 (MENA) - Three personnel of the Iraqi army and police were killed and eight others injured when a car bomb went off in northern Baghdad on Tuesday. A car bomb driven by a suicide bomber targeted a joint force of army and police in ....

50 Daesh militants killed in Anbar

Date: 2015-07-21 14:49:25 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:61 - ID:3018357

BAGHDAD, July 21 (MENA) - Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces on Tuesday liberated Fohood district, north of Fallujah of Anbar province. A statement by the Popular Mobilization Forces said that 10 Daesh militants were killed during the military ....

Syrian opposition advances to Zabadani

Date: 2015-07-21 14:40:48 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:60 - ID:3018677

LONDON, July 21 (MENA) – Head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdulrahman asserted that the Syrian opposition targeted Hezbollah’s barriers and mechanisms and regime forces in Zabadani city while the siege is still imposed on the ....

UAE aid ship arrives in Yemen

Date: 2015-07-21 14:21:35 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:3018413

SANAA, July 21 (MENA) - A UAE ship carrying 2,315 tons of medical supplies docked in the Yemeni port of Aden on Tuesday. Spokesman for the People’s Relief Union in Aden Adnan al Kaf thanked the UAE government for its support for the Yemeni ....

1st UN aid ship docks in Yemen's Aden

Date: 2015-07-21 13:10:17 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:45 - ID:3017853

SANAA, July 21 (MENA) - A ship carrying relief supplies docked in Aden on Tuesday, the first UN vessel to reach the southern Yemeni city in four months of fighting, The Daily Mail quoted Aden governor Nayef al Bakri as saying. "This is the first ....

UN envoy for Syria meets Iranian FM

Date: 2015-07-21 13:08:56 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:3017629

GENEVA, July 21 (MENA) - UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura met on Tuesday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The meeting in Tehran took up the crisis in Syria and the need to find out a political solution to the ....