Sun 26 September 2021: Five people were killed in a twin attack by suspected Daesh militants in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province on Sunday, according to a local police officer, reports Anadolu Agency. A roadside bomb exploded at a civilian vehicle in the town of Had Akhder, northeast of Diyala, the officer said on condition of […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: At least four Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army during overnight military raids that led to armed confrontations on Sunday in the Jenin and Jerusalem areas of the occupied West Bank. Mohammad Hleil, spokesman for the Palestinian health ministry, confirmed to Al Jazeera the killing of three Palestinians from […]
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Sun 26 September 2021: At least 50 Iran-backed Houthis and Yemeni pro-government troops have been killed as fighting intensifies for the key city of Marib, military sources said on Sunday. “In the past 48 hours, 43 Houthi fighters were killed mostly in coalition airstrikes” west of Marib, a military source told AFP, while another source […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: A teenage Iranian boy from Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province has caught the imagination of the country for a heroic act that cost him his life. Ali Landi, 15, was laid to rest on Friday with full state honors after succumbing to third-degree burns he sustained while saving two elderly women from […]
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Sat 25 September 2021: Over half of all worldwide casualties caused by cluster bombs in 2020 were in Syria, a new report has revealed. According to the publication released by the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) last week, cluster bomb casualties in Syria resulted in a staggering 52 per cent of all similar casualties around the world last […]
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Fri 24 September 2021: The raging conflict in Syria has killed more than 350,000 people in the past decade, the United Nations said Friday. “We assess this figure of 350,209 as statistically sound, based as it is on rigorous work,” said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Geneva. “But it is not […]
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Fri 24 September 2021: Zwelivelile Mandela, a grandson of iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela, has joined a growing chorus against the African Union’s decision to grant observer status to Israel. “We cannot normalize relations with apartheid Israel while it continuously rides roughshod over the human rights of the Palestinians, incarcerates, tortures and maims innocent […]
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Fri 24 September 2021: Thousands of children of suspected Daesh/ISIS families trapped in camps northeast of Syria have been abandoned by their governments and are living in dire conditions, according to Save the Children on Thursday. “Conditions in the camps, particularly in Al-Hol, are dire. Al-Hol is severely overcrowded and an unsuitable place for children […]
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Fri 24 September 2021: On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed legislation allocating around $1 billion towards the replacement of Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system. The bill, which was enacted separately from the broader defense budget bill that was going through Congress at the same time, easily surpassed the 260-vote threshold. The tally […]
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Thu 23 September 2021: Turkish media has raised concerns that a spy cell has leaked technology projects to Israeli companies at a time when the country’s public prosecutor has charged 11 people with leaking information about Turkey’s defence industries to international companies. Yeni Safak said Turkey’s defence industries have developed significantly over the past few years, […]
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