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Exclusive: Rebel infighting leaves 120 dead in Syria

Sun Jun 8, 2014 21:45:30

Infighting between Syria's militant groups has intensified in the past couple of days, leaving more than 120 dead, Al-Alam reports.

Iran, Turkey to form high council for strategic co-op

Sun Jun 8, 2014 20:04:44

Iran and Turkey are going to establish a high council for strategic cooperation during Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s forthcoming visit to Ankara, Iran’s ambassador to Turkey has said.

CIA joins Twitter, but ‘neither confirm nor denies’ it has come!

Sun Jun 8, 2014 19:02:47

The US spy agency, CIA, has joined the world of social media with this sentence: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet".

Hezbollah: Syrian vote, triumph to the axis of resistance

Sun Jun 8, 2014 18:49:31

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem says the recent Syrian presidential election paved way for the postwar phase and save Syria from the ongoing crisis.

Terrorist attack on Kurdish party office in Iraq kills 19

Sun Jun 8, 2014 16:45:42

A double bombing at a Kurdish party office in Diyala, a town near Iraqi capital, has killed 19 people.

Palestinian inmates’ hunger strike responded with ‘brutality’

Sun Jun 8, 2014 16:22:35

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail who found no way but to go on a long hunger strike for having their voices heard, are being treated with brutality, say the inmates’ lawyers.

Visiting Muslim pilgrims undeterred by MERS fears

Sun Jun 8, 2014 14:44:51

Pilgrims from around the world are pouring into the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, undeterred by the spread of the MERS virus that has killed 284 people in the kingdom to perform Islamic ritual of Umrah (paying a visit to Kaaba, performing Tawaaf around it, walking between Safaa and Marwah seven times).

El-Sisi, Saudis both oppose free speech

Sun Jun 8, 2014 14:34:35

General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and the Saudi regime sing from the same hymn page. They both oppose the people’s demand for free speech or even reforms.

Sisi sworn in as Egypt's president

Sun Jun 8, 2014 14:05:10

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's former defense minister, has been sworn in by the Supreme Constitutional Court as the country's new president after winning last month's presidential poll.

Syria army eliminates major terror master in Aleppo

Sun Jun 8, 2014 12:51:56

Syrian military forces have killed one of the nation’s most notorious terrorists in persisting battles around the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo, al-Alam’s Syria correspondent reported Saturday afternoon.

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