In addition to a terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) that plagues many regions of northern and eastern Iraq two weeks ago and is on the doorstep of the capital, Baghdad, is no more a jihadist group. It is also a company that has neatly accounts terror. The group surprised […]
Jun 22 2014 | Posted in
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Judge Said Yusuf, the court of the Egyptian province of Minya, decided on Saturday to maintain the provisional sentence of death which he had issued against 183 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie. Instead, the judge acquitted 496 other people and commuted the death sentence of […]
Wars not only kill people, also try to kill the cultural. The struggle between the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is no different. Witnesses tell reporters that militants in Mosul destroyed several monuments, including the tomb of a medieval philosopher. A few days ago, UNESCO warned of this […]
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
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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
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Baghdad is on high alert. Checkpoints have extreme vigilance and people are back in their homes long before ten at night when the curfew comes into force. Fighting between the rebels and the army have come to Baquba, just 60 kilometers from the capital, but said yesterday the government forces have regained control. However, the […]
Jun 19 2014 | Posted in
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At least 20 people have died, mostly women and children, in a barrage of Syrian army helicopters against a refugee camp close to the border with Jordan, as reported by residents and opposition activists cited by Reuters. According to these sources, the helicopters have launched several bomb barrels against field in the town of Shajra, […]
Palestinians in Hebron on Tuesday observed no noteworthy developments as many units of the Israeli Army paratroopers patrol the West Bank. It was the fourth day of the search for three young Jews kidnapped on Thursday night in the West Bank while returning from religious schools in an Israeli colony. Israel has blocked access to […]
Sunni insurgents have launched Wednesday an attack on Iraq ‘s main refinery in Baiji (Saladin Province), where fighting continues against security forces stationed at the location, according to police sources and oil installation workers told reporters. The jihadi militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have attacked the hydro plant with mortar […]
Jun 19 2014 | Posted in
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The new president of Egypt, Abdelfattah al Sisi, chaired Tuesday morning the first meeting of the new Executive of the Arab country after the ministers swore office in the presidential palace in Ittihadiya. Al Sisi, who won by an overwhelming margin in the presidential election last month, has appointed a cabinet to keep the momentum, […]
Jun 18 2014 | Posted in
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Egypt’s attorney general ordered Monday afternoon release of Abdullah al-Shami, an Egyptian journalist from Al Jazeera carrying around 130 days on hunger strike to protest his legal situation. Al-Shami was arrested in August last year, and has not yet gone to court. The reporter will be released along with a dozen other people, all for […]
Jun 18 2014 | Posted in
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The Army and the Israeli secret services arrested early Tuesday another 41 Palestinians, mostly militants, according to the military, in raids in several districts of the West Bank as part of the search for the three missing young Israeli. On the fifth day of the military operation tracking, the focus has moved from Hebron, southern […]
Jun 18 2014 | Posted in
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