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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered Russia’s support to help Palestinians attain their statehood dream as he met with Hamas exiled leader Khaled Mashaal in Doha Monday. Lavrov, whose country is member of the quartet mediating to end the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, has offered Monday to the Palestinian internationally decried Islamic movement Hamas its support […]
Tensions are still tense in Palestine over the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler in an arson attack suspected to be carried out by Jewish extremists on Friday. Clashes and demonstrations continued on Sunday at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with reports that two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead on Saturday by Israeli snipers during […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani argued on Sunday that the July 14 historic pact with world powers was significant and would help bring solutions to on-going and brutal wars taking place in Syria and Yemen. Hassan Rouhani told the Iranians in a televised speech that the region will be a better place to live after his […]
Iran continues its promotional campaign to renew ties with the rest of the world following the historic pact on its nuclear program, granting travel visas free of charge to Egyptians and nationals of 6 other countries. According to press reports, Teheran has cancelled visa fees for Egypt and 6 other countries, namely Syria, Lebanon, Bolivia, […]
The London-based Human Rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that it possesses strong evidences of war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza during last year 50-day war following analysis of an Israeli assault in Gaza known as “black Friday”. Amnesty International said its claims are based on strong evidences made of detailed analysis of eyewitness […]
France’s foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was in Iran on Wednesday for a one-day landmark visit during which he extended President Hassan Rouhani an invitation from ¨resident François Hollande to visit France in November. Paris adopted a tough position against Iran during the negotiations for the nuclear agreement but Fabius is confident that his “important trip” marks the […]
David Cameron announced Monday the United Kingdom could enter in war against the ISIL in Syria and Libya if the group poses any threat to his country or to British nationals as what happened in the Sousse gun-attack. Mr Cameron was speaking at the start of his South-East Asia tour taking him to Malaysia and […]
Saudi Arabia rejected claims that its relations with Hamas, the Gaza dominating political and arm group, were thawing after some Hamas leaders visited Saudi Arabia. Riyadh claimed on Thursday that Hamas leaders’ recent visit was not political but religious and that its relations with the Islamist movement have not changed. There was no (political) visit […]
Face to face confrontations between the Turkish army and militants of the Islamic State took place on Thursday along the Syrian border when a pickup truck with 10 heavily armed ISIS members opened fire on Turkish troops stationed at a mountain border outpost. A cross-border firefight followed and a Turkish soldier is reported to have […]
The Lebanese cabinet will be holding a meeting on Thursday but the atmosphere is already tense and ministerial sources have hinted that Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s efforts to calm the situation did not yield any fruit. The meeting could be suspended before its scheduled end because disputes are expected between rival groups in the cabinet. […]