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Yemen Shi’ites capture key district from al Qaeda, 35 people dead

SANAA: Yemeni Shi’ite Muslim Houthi fighters backed by government forces drove the local wing of al Qaeda from one of its last strongholds in central Yemen on Friday in intense fighting that killed at least 35 people, tribal sources said. The Houthis’ Ansarullah movement has become the main political force in Western-allied Yemen since capturing Sanaa in September and then pushing south and west into the Su ...

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Gaza Will Become Graveyard For Israel Soldiers: Haniyeh

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says the besieged Gaza Strip will become “a graveyard for Israeli soldiers.” He said on Monday that Gazans are facing an aggressive war by Israel. The Tel Aviv regime has launched the ongoing war on Gazans because it has failed to force them to abandon their struggle, he stated. Haniyeh, however, stressed that “the resistance will continue.” The Hamas leader said the massa ...

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Arab foreign ministers to meet Monday on Gaza: diplomat

Arab foreign ministers are to meet in Cairo on Monday to discuss the escalating conflict between Hamas militants in Gaza and Israel which has already killed more than 120 Palestinians, a diplomat said. Kuwait, which holds the rotating leadership of the Arab League headquartered in the Egyptian capital, had demanded the “urgent” meeting, the diplomat told on Saturday. There has been no coordinated Arab respo ...

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Kuwait urges urgent Arab League meeting on Gaza war

Kuwait has called for an urgent Arab League foreign ministers meeting to discuss the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Kuwait’s permanent representative to the organization Aziz Rahim Al-Daihani said Friday the situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating. Kuwait is the current rotating president of the Arab League. The meeting of Arab League foreign ministers is expected to be held on Monday. S ...

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Gaza Death Toll Reaches 78, Including 8 Members Of A Family

The death toll in Israeli regime’s intense bombardments of the Gaza Strip has reached 78, reports the Alray news agency of Hamas. More than 550 have been injured, it says. Many of the dead and injured are civilians, among them women and children, the report says. Eight members of a family were killed in a strike on the house of a suspected Hamas member in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis and at l ...

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Shia Mosque Set On Fire In Istanbul’s Esenyurt

A group of takfiri terrorists set alight a mosque attended by Shiite Turks in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district on 8 July, after the mosque’s imam received threats over the past week. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene after passersby informed them about the fire. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames. Although no one was injured, the fire at the Muhammediye Mosque which started in the ...

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ISIS Threatens To Destroy Holy Kaaba; ‘Kill Those Who Worship Stones’

A key member of the takfiri terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has threatened to Destroy The Holy Kaaba in Mecca, the center of Muslim world in Saudi Arabia where all Muslims perform Hajj annually. ISIS which recently dubbed itself simply, The Islamic State, has declared that they will destroy the Holy Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is Islam’s most holy site. APA quoted ISIS membe ...

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Fearing ISIL Threat, Jordan Asks For Help

Amman has asked for international support fearing that the brutal militancy that has been raging in neighboring Iraq and Syria may spill over to Jordan. “It is important that the international community continue to support Jordan to deal with challenges and developments in the region,” a palace statement quoted King Abdullah II as saying on Monday. Amman fears that the offensive spearheaded by militants fro ...

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Ramazan & Eid ul Fitr Dates Announced for UAE

The first day of holy month of Ramadan will fall on Sunday, June 29, officials at the Sharjah Planetarium have announced. The new moon of the month of Shawwal 1435 AH, which marks the end of Ramadan, will appear on Sunday, July 27 at 2.42am. The sun will set on this day at 7.05pm, meaning Monday, July 28 will mark the beginning of Eid Al Fitr and the month of Shawwal. Astronomers said the crescent moon of t ...

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Bomb explosion kills 6, injures 26 in Yemen

An explosion has hit a bus carrying Yemeni air force personnel to their base in the capital Sana'a, killing six military staff and leaving 26 injured. The attack was reportedly carried out on the road leading to Sana'a International Airport on Sunday. “The bomb exploded in the rear part of the bus and six of our colleagues were immediately killed,” said Ameen Saree, an air force officer. “The rest have been ...

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