Category archives for: Middle East

ISIL claims execution of dozens of Iraqi soldiers

ISIL in iraq

The jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have claimed on Sunday the execution of dozens of members of the Iraqi security forces after making them prisoner, and have documented the action with photos posted online and disseminated by agencies Associated Press, France Presse. The images, which could not be independently […]

Israel arrests 80 Palestinians in search of 3 missing young Jews

80 palestinians arrested

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 […]

ISIL slows fighting in Syria to focus on Iraq

ISIL iraq

While the militias of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) advanced rapidly in recent days to just 100 kilometers from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Sunni Islamist group has stopped fighting waged in neighboring Syria. ISIL radicals, organization born of the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda, seek to establish a Sunni caliphate in […]

Rohani says Iran to help Iraq against insurgents if asked

Irani President

Iran ready to help Iraq, but will not send troops to fight the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said Saturday Iranian President Hasan Rohani, according to the official Iranian news agency, IRNA. “If the Iraqi government asks us for help, we will give any help we ask for his […]

Obama asks Iraq to end sectarian policies

barack obama

The United States president Barack Obama took action to help the Iraqi government to halt the advance of the militants. The commander of the U.S. warned that sending U.S. military aid is subject to the commitment of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s policies to include Sunni and Kurds and provide minimal security in the country. Obama […]

Obama considers air strikes to stop militants in Iraq

Obama

President Barack Obama, whose rise was not dissociated from the Iraq war, consider air strikes in this country to help the Baghdad government to halt the advance of the jihadists. Among the options discussed include Obama sending drones, however, deployment of ground troops not on the table. The victories of the Islamic State of Iraq […]

Millitants near Iraqi capital after taking two major cities

Iraq-cities

Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) early Friday gain control of the towns of Saadiyah and Jalawla, located in the province of Diyala, after Iraqi security forces abandoned their positions to the imminent advance jihadist. For its part, the Iraqi Army has fired artillery fire locations from Muqdadiya, located […]

Kurdish forces claim control of oil city of Kirkuk

mosul under militants control

The jihadists are within 100 kilometers of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad by Thursday. They leave behind large cities conquered in the north – Baiji and Mosul, where, after launching an offensive earlier this week, took control of the province of Nineveh. Although the insurgents were several points of Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein, the Army […]

First fatality in Algeria due to coronavirus infection

MERS

Algerian Health Minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf, has confirmed the first death in the country of a man by corona virus infection, disease transmitting the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS -CoV), which causes coughing, fever, and in the worst, pneumonia ending in death of the infected. The virus has affected with particular virulence to Saudi Arabia, which […]

Fighting in Iraq has displaced half a million people

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The jihadi militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL) a group linked to al Qaeda, have taken positions on Wednesday inside the city of Baiji, 220 km north of Baghdad (Iraq). This is a town that hosts one of the largest oil refineries and in which, according to security sources cited […]

A right-wing Likud replaced Peres as president of Israel

Reuven Rivlin

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, elected on Tuesday as conservative Reuven Rivlin tenth president of the State. The veteran politician belongs to the right wing of the Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rivlin needed a second round of voting to beat Schitrit Meir, the centrist party HatnĂșa of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Three […]

Activist icon of Egyptian revolution Sentenced to 15 years

Alaa Abdel Fatah

No dissident escapes the elongated arm of Egypt’s repressive justice. Alaa Abdel Fatah, one of the symbols of the revolution of 2011 who was still at large, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison with 24 other lfor organizing an illegal demonstration in November last year, according to a filtration official newspaper Al Ahram. […]

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