Maleeha Tareen
Joined on: May 12, 2014
Published stories: 189
Articles By Maleeha Tareen
United States faces two opponents in Iraq. The first is militant: Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL), who in recent weeks have taken key cities in the Middle Eastern country. The second is political adversary: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is Shiite. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, yesterday stepped […]
Jun 21 2014 | Posted in
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The Iraqi security forces are fighting against militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) in Baiji, north of the country, to wrest control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq, located about 200 kilometers north of Baghdad. Lt. Gen. Qassem Atta has said in televised comments reported by France Presse that […]
Jun 20 2014 | Posted in
Middle East |
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Minimize the progress of the jihadists in Iraq as it will encourage further terrorist attacks, has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron, after chairing a meeting of the Homeland Security Committee devoted to the crisis in Iraq. Cameron, facing a reluctant public to any military intervention from the second Gulf War, ruled out involvement of […]
Jun 20 2014 | Posted in
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The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday assured that the Palestinian security forces looking for three young Israelis kidnapped last Thursday night, when hitchhiking near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. “They want to destroy us,” said the Palestinian president, probably referring to the Palestinian unity government formed this month. Abbas […]
Jun 20 2014 | Posted in
Middle East |
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The UK has announced plans to reopen its embassy in Tehran, which remains closed since 2011 after assault by hundreds of angry students, as “an important step” to thaw relations between the two countries. The move comes in the context of rapprochement between the Western Allies and the Iranian regime, which is committed to assist […]
Jun 19 2014 | Posted in
Europe,
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The correspondent of the Russian State Television Radio (VGTRK), Igor Korneliuk, died Tuesday after being wounded in a barrage of mortar on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lugansk Ukraine, as reported by Sergey Babenko, deputy director of the hospital in which he died. “The man who was admitted with documentation on behalf of […]
Jun 18 2014 | Posted in
Europe |
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Violent clashes between Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s workers and Lahore police ended with deaths of at least 7 people including youth and women and 80 with injuries out side the residence of the Dr. Tahir ul Qadri in Lahore. Police along with the heavy machinery was in the area to remove the barriers near the Qari’s […]
About fifty men with guns and explosives attacked the town of Mpeketoni, about forty kilometers from the tourist coast of Kenya on Sunday night raided two hotels, a bank and a police station, among other buildings, according to the Inspector General Police, David Kimaiyo, the agency Efe. The death toll stands at 48, according to […]
Jun 17 2014 | Posted in
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Israeli security forces have arrested 80 Palestinians in Hebron in the West Bank Sunday, as part of operations to locate the three Israeli students, two aged 16 and one 19, who disappeared Thursday night, while doing hitchhiking south of Bethlehem. They are students of a religious school in a Jewish settlement in occupied territory. A […]
The Pakistani army has killed at least 80 people in air strikes launched on Sunday against the hideouts of suspected militants, mostly Uzbeks, in the remote region of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, according to the agency France Presse, quoting senior military officials. Local security sources, however, suggest a much larger number of deaths, […]
Although the supply of Iraqi oil remains, although so far no major damage to infrastructure and the fact that the offer could relatively easily compensated by other OPEC producers, markets have reacted much nervous to the escalation of tension in Iraq. In just two sessions a barrel of Brent crude, the benchmark for Europe, has […]
Jun 15 2014 | Posted in
Business |
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The pro-Russian militias have destroyed Saturday Ukrainian military cargo plane and killed all 49 passengers of the aircraft. The attack occurred when the plane of the Ukrainian Army landed at the airport in Lugansk (east), as reported by a military spokesman. It is one of the most serious attacks of the current period of instability […]
Jun 15 2014 | Posted in
Europe |
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