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Syria's pro-West rebels urge more aid to fight ISIL

Sun Jul 6, 2014 17:56:56

The military chief of Syria's main Western-backed insurgent group has warned that the country risks a "humanitarian disaster" if the US-led allies do not send more aid to help his anti-Damascus armed militants stop the advance of the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri insurgents, believe to be backed and financed by Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf Arab allies.

Iran’s FM Zarif has no Saudi visit on agenda

Sun Jul 6, 2014 17:14:21

Iranian foreign minister has no immediate plans to pay an official visit to the Saudi Arabian Kingdom, according to a foreign ministry official.

Israeli war jets hit 10 Gaza sites amid high tensions

Sun Jul 6, 2014 16:50:39

The Israeli military has carried out fresh airstrikes on 10 sites in the besieged Gaza Strip while tensions remained high following weekend clashes between the regime’s police forces and protesters in al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Arab towns in northern Israel.

US concerned about beating American Palestinian by Israelis

Sun Jul 6, 2014 14:44:25

Social networks have aired a video that shows a Palestinian boy have been beaten by Israeli troops, prompting US to call for credible investigation.

Israel denies Bedouins rights to have access to water

Sun Jul 6, 2014 13:38:43

Some 75,000 members of Bedouin communities in rural areas in the occupied lands of Palestine’s southern desert region of Negev have no access to running water, a report says.

ISIL militants execute 10 in Iraqi Kurdish village

Sun Jul 6, 2014 11:31:29

Takfiri militants from the al-Qaeda-linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have executed at least 10 people in a village in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

Qaradawi depicts Islamic caliphate as ‘void under Sharia’

Sun Jul 6, 2014 10:57:12

Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has warned that the declaration of a so-called Islamic caliphate by extremists triggering insurgency in Syria and Iraq violates sharia law.

In Picture: Anti-Islamic acts by so-called Islamic State in Iraq

Sun Jul 6, 2014 09:05:25

The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group has demolished Islamic sites such as mosques and shrines in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tal Afar.

Israel renews airstrike on Gaza Strip; 2 injured

Sun Jul 6, 2014 08:39:30

The Israeli regime’s fighter jets have carried out fresh air strikes on the impoverished Gaza Strip, leaving at least two Palestinians wounded.

Breaking: Iraq says man on ISIL video is 'indisputably' not Baghdadi

Sat Jul 5, 2014 22:45:18

The Iraqi government says a video footage purporting to show the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group in the northern city of Mosul was falsified.

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