Four small bombs have exploded Wednesday in three metro stations in Cairo, leaving at least four people injured, police and rescue officials said. In the district of Heliopolis, north of the capital, a fifth device exploded outside a court building leaving one wounded, as reported by Reuters chief Bomb disposal unit of the Egyptian capital, […]
Jun 25 2014 | Posted in
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has ruled out on Wednesday the formation of a national emergency government to address the militants offensive by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (EIIL), which since December has jeopardized the Iraqi army in the northwest. ” The call to form a government of national emergency is a coup […]
The jihadists claim to have taken full control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq, in Baiji, north of Baghdad. The information is confusing. A “reliable source” has assured the journalist Richard Galpin BBC that there are about 160 militants inside while the New York Times reporter, CJ Chivers, who accompanied Kerry on this tour, […]
Jun 24 2014 | Posted in
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With war in Iraq and Syria, Libya chaos and thinking in Washington that the Arab Spring was just a bad dream that brought disorder and instability, the United States returned to the old ways that ensured an uneasy Pax Americana in the region. Egypt anchorage during the first decades of power in the Middle East […]
Jun 24 2014 | Posted in
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Syria has finished delivering the last chemical weapons declared to the international community to be destroyed, as announced on Monday the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to coordinate the destruction of the arsenal. “At this moment I’m talking about, the vessel carrying chemical weapons just left the port of Latakia “, said […]
Jun 24 2014 | Posted in
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The Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, has arrived in Baghdad Monday, the Iraqi capital, to meet with Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki on the issue of Jihadist progress in the region. According to the Shiite prime minister of Iraq, the advancing jihadi are a threat world peace. Kerry reiterated U.S. commitment […]
Jun 24 2014 | Posted in
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United States yesterday took a crucial step to overcome the tensions that have marked its relationship with Cairo since the coup last summer by the deposed Islamist Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president. The Secretary of State, John Kerry, traveled to Cairo to meet with the new president, Abdelfatá Al Sisi, as part of […]
Jun 24 2014 | Posted in
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U.S. fears civil war in Iraq from becoming a wider conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in the Middle East. The complicity of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Gulf countries with Iraqi insurgents and Shiite Iran close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is making Washington draw some worrying scenarios: the partition of Iraq in Mesopotamia until […]
Jun 23 2014 | Posted in
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The Egyptian authorities have not been receptive to international pressure in favor of press freedom. A Cairo court has sentenced Monday to prison terms of between seven and 10 years in prison to a group of journalists from Al Jazeera accused of spreading false news to favor the case of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist […]
Jun 23 2014 | Posted in
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The beginning of the second week in search of the three kidnapped Jewish youth in the West Bank resulted in early Sunday with two more Palestinian deaths. One died in Nablus, north of Jerusalem, by Israeli army gunfire. According to the Palestinian news agency Maan, Khalid Ahmad, 36, who refused to obey the order of […]
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager 15 years during the search operation three young Israelis who disappeared near the city of Hebron. Palestinian medics identified the deceased as Mohammed Dudin teenager, who was hit by a bullet in the chest in the town of Dura. The Israeli military says its troops fired only when they […]
The spiritual leader of Iraqi Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein al-Sistani on Friday urged politicians to agree on a new government as soon as possible to end the sectarian divide that threatens to plunge the country into another war. His words come at a time when several parties gauge how to prevent a third term […]
Jun 22 2014 | Posted in
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