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Minor quake jolts Kuwait following Iran's 5.6-magnitude tremor

Date: 2018-04-19 10:49:28 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7358641

Residents of several areas in Kuwait on Thursday morning felt a minor tremor lasting for 25 seconds. This minor earthquake came as an aftershock of an earthquake measuring 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale that hit southern Iran earlier in the ....

Over 100 Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque under Israeli forces' protection

Date: 2018-04-19 08:19:07 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7358249

A group of Israeli settlers stormed Thursday morning Al Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The more than 100 Israeli settlers broke into the holy site precincts from Bab el Maghreba gate and performed Talmudic rituals ....

French FM: Health of Libya’s Haftar improved

Date: 2018-04-19 07:52:05 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7358203

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar's health is improving after receiving treatment at a military hospital in Paris. The top diplomat made the remark behind closed doors at the French parliament, ....

Libyan interim gov't: Suspects arrested in attempt murder of COS

Date: 2018-04-19 07:16:08 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7358135

Libyan interim government has announced arresting suspects of a failed assassination attempt on army's chief of staff Abdel-Razik Al-Nathouri, the Libyan News Agency announced quoting an official statement by the interior ministry on Wednesday ....

Libyan army commander survives assassination attempt

Date: 2018-04-18 20:02:12 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:7357941

General Abdarrazzaq al-Nathuri, Chief of Staff of the Libyan eastern-based army, on Wednesday survived an assassination attempt in the eastern city of Benghazi, Xinhua quoted the Libyan army's information office as saying. "A car carrying a bomb ....

UAE Armed Forces intercept Iranian plane loaded with explosives

Date: 2018-04-18 12:44:50 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:7357129

The UAE Armed Forces' anti-aircraft defense unit intercepted an Iranian Qassef-1 aircraft loaded with explosives in an attempt to strike strategic positions of the Yemeni forces and the Arab coalition on Yemen's Red Sea coast. Upon examining the ....

30 Houthis killed in raids in Taiz: Yemeni sources

Date: 2018-04-18 10:20:29 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:7356742

Thirty Houthi elements were killed in a series of raids conducted by jets of the Arab coalition targeting Houthi spots in Taiz, Yemeni military sources said on Wednesday. Also, Houthi military vehicles and an ammunition warehouse were destroyed ....

Syrian envoy: UN security team visited Syria's Duma

Date: 2018-04-18 09:58:30 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:7356695

Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari, speaking to the Security Council, announced that a UN security team had visited the Syrian city of Duma on Tuesday so that the international chemical weapons investigators could travel to the ....

Arab parlt speaker calls for UN inquiry into Israeli crimes against Palestinians

Date: 2018-04-18 09:57:32 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:7356691

Arab Parliament Speaker Meshaal bin Fahm al Salmi called on the UN to send an investigations committee to Israeli prisons to get acquainted with racist Israeli practices and flagrant violations committed against Palestinian prisoners. In a ....

Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home

Date: 2018-04-18 09:45:20 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7356668

Hundreds of Syrian refugees in southeastern Lebanon are preparing to return home. The voluntary return was scheduled to start on Wednesday, with refugees boarding buses that would take them from Lebanon’s Shebaa and Hasbaya to the Syrian border ....