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Libya’s UN-backed govt. says downed Haftar warplane
Apr 15, 2019 05:36Libya’s UN-backed government says its military has shot down a fighter jet belonging to the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), led by strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose forces are fighting for the control of the capital Tripoli.
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Revelations: Egypt's Mubarak says Syria refused to recognize Israel in exchange for Golan offer
Apr 12, 2019 02:44Egypt's former dictator Hosni Mubarak has revealed that an Israeli proposal to give the occupied Golan Heights to Syria was turned down by Syria's then-President Hafez al-Assad in 1998 to avoid recognizing Israel.
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Egypt pulls out of anti-Iran alliance envisioned by US, allies
Apr 11, 2019 07:57Egypt has reportedly turned its back on a US-led initiative to establish a NATO-style alliance of Arab countries primarily aimed at countering Iran out of concerns that such a coalition could increase tensions with the Islamic Republic, among other reasons.
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Gunmen attack Egypt police vehicle, two dead
Apr 07, 2019 12:12Gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle in a Cairo suburb at dawn Sunday, killing a police officer and the driver and wounding two others, the interior ministry said.
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Israel was behind Morsi’s overthrow: General
Apr 05, 2019 02:14Israel was behind the 2013 coup in Egypt that toppled Mohamed Morsi, the African country’s first ever democratically-elected president, an Israeli general has revealed.
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Egypt court upholds verdict, places 169 Brotherhood convicts on terror list
Mar 16, 2019 15:53An Egyptian court has upheld an earlier verdict against 169 convicted members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement and placed them on the country’s terror list for the next five years.
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Iran will be opening new chapter with Iraq: Zarif
Mar 10, 2019 09:19Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says an upcoming visit by President Hassan Rouhani to Iraq — the president’s first — will be the beginning of a new chapter in Tehran-Baghdad relations.
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‘King Salman outraged by Bin Salman’s recent moves’
Mar 06, 2019 02:38Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz is said to be outraged by the recent moves made by his son, Crown Prince Mohammed, the Guardian has reported, hinting at growing signs of a potentially destabilizing rift between the king and his heir.
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Mossad chief, Sudanese spy chief met in Munich to discuss Bashir's ouster: Report
Mar 03, 2019 02:34The head of Mossad met his Sudanese counterpart in Germany last month as part of a secret plan by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and UAE to oust President Omar al-Bashir, the London-based Middle East Eye has reported.
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Fiery crash at Cairo train station kills 20, injures 40
Feb 27, 2019 09:39A fiery train crash killed at least 20 people at Cairo's main railway station on Wednesday, Egyptian security and medical sources said.