Arab world

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  • Kerry says Daesh group 'significantly' damaged

    Date: 2014-12-03 12:18:37 GMT - Belgium - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:1462849

    BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (MENA) - Air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition on Daesh have inflicted "significant" damage on the group's capabilities, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, the BBC reported. Kerry said the campaign against the ....

  • US embassy denounces Sanaa blast

    Date: 2014-12-03 09:49:56 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:1461901

    SANAA, Dec 3 (MENA) - The US embassy in Sanaa denounced the explosion that targeted the residence of the Iranian ambassador in Sanaa earlier on Wednesday. A statement released by the embassy said targeting diplomats and diplomatic facilities ....

  • 3 civilians killed in attack northwest Baghdad

    Date: 2014-12-03 09:37:16 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:1461461

    BAGHDAD, Dec 3 (MENA) - Three civilians were killed in an armed attack in southern Tikrit, located some 160 kilometers northwest of Baghdad, Al-Sumariya TV Satellite reported. An Iraqi police source said unidentified gunmen opened machine gun ....

  • 1 killed, 17 injured in blast outside Iranian ambassador's residence in Sanaa

    Date: 2014-12-03 09:31:29 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:1461557

    SANAA, Dec 3 (MENA) - A security man was killed and around 17 pedestrians were injured in a booby-trapped car explosion outside the residence of the Iranian ambassador in Sanaa. The ambassador was not at home at the time of the ....

  • Shell kills 3, injures 6 in Libya's Benghazi

    Date: 2014-12-02 22:22:27 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:137 - ID:1459789

    TRIPOLI, Dec 2 (MENA) – Three people were killed and six others injured after a random shell hit Bin Yunis area in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Galaa hospital received three bodies and six injured people, a media official at the hospital ....

  • No military solution for Libya crisis, says British diplomat

    Date: 2014-12-02 22:06:37 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:135 - ID:1459777

    TRIPOLI, Dec 2 (MENA) - British Ambassador to Libya Michael Aron condemned on Tuesday armed attacks that resulted in civilian casualties asserting "no military solution in Libya." In a series of tweets on his official Twitter page, the diplomat ....

  • Jordan PM says Arab nation rejects Israel's Jewish state legislation

    Date: 2014-12-02 21:07:20 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:130 - ID:1459697

    AMMAN, Dec 2 (MENA) – Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour stressed on Tuesday his country's and the Arab nation's rejection of Israel's move to vote on controversial legislation that will enshrine its status as the “Jewish state” in law. The ....

  • Bahrain's princess Sabika meets AWO chief

    Date: 2014-12-02 20:43:35 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:129 - ID:1459641

    MANAMA, Dec 2 (MENA) – Princess Sabika bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Bahraini king's wife and chairperson of the Supreme Council for Women in Bahrain met on Tuesday with Mervat el-Telawi, the director of the Arab Women Organization, currently visiting ....

  • 7 killed, wounded in Lebanon army patrol ambush

    Date: 2014-12-02 20:38:41 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:128 - ID:1459617

    BEIRUT, Dec 2 (MENA) - The Lebanese Army Command said on Tuesday that six soldiers were killed and another was injured in an attack against army patrol near the border with Syria. "Around 5:10 p.m. this afternoon, an army patrol circulating Ras ....

  • Sudan min., Egypt amb. discuss results of Cairo visit

    Date: 2014-12-02 20:22:12 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:126 - ID:1459537

    KHARTOUM, Dec 2 (MENA) - Sudanese Information Minister Yasser Youssif has discussed with Egyptian Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout the positive results of his visit to Cairo heading a senior Sudanese media delegation. During the meeting, ....

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