Arab world - Welcome to Middle East News Agency

Tunisian court decides to hand over Walid al Qalib to Libyan authorities

Date: 2015-06-18 12:50:59 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:2821901

TUNIS, June 18 (MENA) - Tunisian Court of Appeal decided handing over Libyan leader in Fajr Libya forces Walid al Qalib temporarily to his country's authorities. In statements on Thursday, the spokesman of the court Karim al Shaby said that the ....

Tunisian diplomats abducted in Libya released

Date: 2015-06-18 12:27:13 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:2821713

TUNIS, June 18 (MENA) - Tunisian activist Moustafa Abdel Kabier said that the Tunisian diplomats, kidnapped in Libya, were released after the Tunisian Consulate in the Libyan capital Tripoli was stormed. The diplomats were released Wednesday ....

PFLP urges PLO to form national unity government

Date: 2015-06-18 12:11:55 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:48 - ID:2821421

GAZA CITY, June 18 (MENA) - A Gaza-based group urged on Thursday the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to form a national unity government. In a statement, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called on the PLO to reach ....

AL chief meets Yemeni PM

Date: 2015-06-18 11:44:27 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:2821109

CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) Chief Nabil el Araby met on Thursday with Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and his accompanying delegation. They discussed the latest developments in Yemen and efforts exerted to end the Yemeni ....

Iraqi Defense Ministry denies crash of its planes

Date: 2015-06-18 09:52:55 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:2820269

BAGHDAD, June 18 (MENA) – Iraqi Defense Ministry denied Thursday rumors that circled media on the crash of an Iraqi plane during a fight duty. A statement of the ministry said that the news in void of truth, adding that the army planes conduct ....

Iraqi PM vows to eliminate Daesh, corruption

Date: 2015-06-18 09:12:08 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:2820165

BAGHDAD, June 18 (MENA) –Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi vowed on Thursday to eliminate Daesh terrorism which controls large areas of the country, as well as corruption in the state institutions. In a press release on the occasion of the ....

Iraq kills 30 Daesh militants in Al Anbar

Date: 2015-06-18 09:01:26 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:2820037

BAGHDAD, June 18 (MENA) - Iraqi forces killed 30 Daesh militants in Al Anbar governorate in western Iraq on Thursday, security sources said. Iraqi troops, in cooperation with the air force, bombed an outpost of the militant group in Khalidiya ....

UNRWA closes all shelters after displace Palestinians departure

Date: 2015-06-18 08:53:24 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:2819645

GAZA CITY, June 18 (MENA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced the closure of the last shelter in Gaza Strip after departure of all displaced Palestinians who were sheltered by the ....

Student killed, 2 injured in shooting at Libyan Univ.

Date: 2015-06-18 08:02:46 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:2819705

TRIPOLI, June 18 (MENA) – A Libyan student was killed and two others injured in Sabha University when three people shot them at the faculty entrance. A security source said Thursday that the shooters fled the scene by their car. The dead ....

Syrian army foils opposition armed attack on Quneitra

Date: 2015-06-18 07:44:12 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:2819545

DAMASCUS, June 18 (MENA) – Syrian army foiled a huge attack launched by opposition armed men on a number of villages in Quneitra governorate, Sky News Arabia quoted a military source as saying on Thursday. The rebels were trying to capture ....