Arab world

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  • Libyan army clashes with militia in Abi Shayba

    Date: 2014-10-11 19:16:11 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:93 - ID:1103793

    TRIPOLI, Oct 11 (MENA) - A squad of Libyan military forces launched an attack Saturday against sites occupied by Fajr Libya militants, said the head of the operations room in Libya's western Military Zone Colonel Edris Abdurrahman. The forces ....

  • Iraqi official: Daesh kills Iraqi cameraman in Tikrit

    Date: 2014-10-11 18:36:24 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:89 - ID:1103805

    BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (MENA) - The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province said a journalist from a local television network has been killed by Daesh, FOX News reported on Saturday. Governor Raed Ibrahim said Raad al-Azzawi, who was a cameraman for ....

  • Car bombs kill 38 in Iraq

    Date: 2014-10-11 18:33:13 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:88 - ID:1103789

    BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (MENA) - A series of car bomb attacks in Iraq killed 38 people in Shiite areas Saturday, authorities said, after Islamic militants killed a journalist working for a local television network in a Sunni province, the ABC News ....

  • 5 terrorists killed in Algeria

    Date: 2014-10-11 17:56:05 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:81 - ID:1103577

    ALGIERS, Oct 11 (MENA) - Algeria's Armed Forces have killed five terrorists and retrieved machine guns in an operation in Bouira, northern Algeria. A security source said the army killed yesterday three others in an ongoing operation. ....

  • New corona virus case reported in Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2014-10-11 17:22:35 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:77 - ID:1103357

    RIYADH, Oct 11 (MENA) - The Saudi Health Ministry has reported a new case of corona virus. The number of cases infected with the virus hit 760. As many as 324 of those infected died since the emergence of the disease in the kingdom in ....

  • UN chief calls for peace in Libya during surprise visit

    Date: 2014-10-11 16:57:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:72 - ID:1103349

    TRIPOLI, Oct 11 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has called for peace in Libya during a surprise visit to Tripoli as part of a UN-brokered reconciliation process, the BBC reported on Saturday. Ban told a Libyan MPs meeting at a ....

  • Israeli Arab who joined Daesh killed in fighting in western Iraq

    Date: 2014-10-11 16:18:31 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:70 - ID:1103033

    GAZA CITY, Oct 11 (MENA) - An Israeli Arab who traveled to Syria to fight in the ranks of Daesh group was killed in western Iraq, according to Israeli media reports on Saturday. Ahmed Habashi, 23, hailed from the village of Iksal, just south of ....

  • Kuwaiti FM heads to Cairo

    Date: 2014-10-11 15:55:26 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:1102977

    KUWAIT CITY, Oct 11 (MENA) - Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah left on Saturday heading to Cairo. He will be leading his country's delegation to the Gaza Strip reconstruction conference which will kick off on ....

  • UN chief pledges support to Tunisia in transition to democracy

    Date: 2014-10-11 14:16:26 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:55 - ID:1102017

    TUNIS, Oct 11 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon renewed on Saturday the UN's support to Tunisian people in the democratic transition saying the upcoming presidential and legislative elections will be a crucial step for Tunisia’s future. ....

  • 80 Daesh fighters killed, wounded in Iraq

    Date: 2014-10-11 13:44:36 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:1102209

    BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (MENA) - As many as 20 members of Daesh terrorist group were killed on Saturday and 60 others injured in air raids launched by the coalition forces that targeted the group fighters south of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The aircraft ....

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