Arab world

  • Service : English General
  • Category : Arab world
  • Abbas meets French FM

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:25:51 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:80 - ID:2838957

    RAMALLAH, June 21 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Sunday with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the presidential HQ in Ramallah. Abbas appreciated the continued French efforts to push forward the peace process stalled due ....

  • Iraqi forces kill 14 Daesh militants in northwestern Iraq

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:14:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:76 - ID:2838521

    BAGHDAD, June 21 (MENA) – Iraqi forces, backed by the US-led coalition aircraft, killed on Sunday 14 Daesh fighters in different parts of Anbar, Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces. Five were killed in the military operation staged by Baghdad ....

  • 19 killed, injured in clashes in Yemen's Aden

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:11:21 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:75 - ID:2838533

    SANA'A, June 21 (MENA) - Three Yemeni civilians were killed as a result of a shelling launched by Houthis on residential areas in Yemen's Aden, Yemeni military sources said. Houthis fired Katyusha rockets and mortars at residential areas ....

  • Arab-coalition air strikes hit Houthi military sites in Sana'a

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:10:14 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:2838509

    SANA'A, June 21 (MENA) - The Saudi-led coalition launched Sunday several air strikes on military sites of Houthis and their allies north of Sana'a. The air strikes also targeted Houthi military reinforcements and military units of former ....

  • No coronavirus cases reported in Saudi Arabia: min.

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:05:39 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:72 - ID:2838505

    RIYADH, June 21 (MENA) - The Saudi Health Ministry asserted that no Coronavirus cases were reported in the country on Sunday while a case was completely cured. In a statement, the ministry said that 573 cases were discharged from hospitals, while ....

  • Iraqi forces shell Karmah area in Anbar province

    Date: 2015-06-21 15:03:50 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:71 - ID:2838257

    BAGHDAD, June 21 (MENA) - Joint Iraqi forces shelled Sunday al Karmah area east of Fallujah in Anbar province, after the mass exodus from it. Large military reinforcements were sent to the joint forces in Anbar province to confront Daesh ....

  • Jordan's King urges doubling efforts to resume Mideast peace talks

    Date: 2015-06-21 14:57:45 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:68 - ID:2838145

    AMMAN, June 21 (MENA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II on Sunday called on key players, including France, to double their efforts to create the proper conditions to resume the Middle East peace talks based on the two-state solution, according to a ....

  • Islamic Fiqh Academy denounces Muslims in China fasting ban

    Date: 2015-06-21 14:12:01 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:62 - ID:2837729

    JEDDAH, June 21 (MENA) - The International Islamic Fiqh Academy denounced on Sunday banning Muslims in some parts of Xinjiang province, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, from fasting from dusk to dawn during the holy month of Ramadan. In ....

  • AL welcomes French initiative to resume ME peace talks

    Date: 2015-06-21 13:59:43 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:59 - ID:2838161

    CAIRO, June 21 (MENA) - The Arab League (AL) welcomed on Sunday a French initiative to revive the long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and submit a new bill to the UN Security Council (UNSC) to end the Israeli ....

  • Daesh militants plant mines in Syria's Palmyra

    Date: 2015-06-21 13:51:23 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:2837641

    LONDON, June 21 (MENA) - The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday reported that Daesh militants planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, home to Roman-era ruins, a group ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD