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Role of foreign states in focus as Iraq begins trying 900 Daesh suspects
Apr 15, 2019 07:52Iraq has begun trying nearly 900 members of the Daesh terrorist group captured in neighboring Syria, a judiciary official says.
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Saudi Arabia funded Libya rebels push toward capital: Report
Apr 14, 2019 01:38Libyan rebel Commander General Khalifa Haftar has been directly supported by Saudi Arabia in his new campaign to seize control of the capital Tripoli, a new report has shown.
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Saudi Arabia resorting to death penalty to quash opposition: Amnesty
Apr 14, 2019 01:09Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is making use of the death penalty to crush opposition figures, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
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Germany approves weapon supplies to Saudi Arabia, UAE: Der Spiegel
Apr 13, 2019 03:00Germany’s National Security Council has reportedly approved the provision of certain weapons and arms technology to the two main aggressor regimes involved in a deadly war on Yemen, namely Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite a ban imposed earlier on arms exports to Riyadh.
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UK training Saudi officers as Yemen war rages on
Apr 11, 2019 08:00The UK has been training dozens of Saudi Arabian military officers since the beginning of the kingdom’s military aggression against Yemen in March 2015, a new report suggests, further revealing the extent of Britain’s involvement in the deadly conflict.
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Khashoggi’s family denies settlement with Saudi Arabia
Apr 11, 2019 01:04The children of murdered dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi say they have not discussed any sort of settlement related to his brutal killing by Saudi agents in the Turkish city of Istanbul last year.
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Saudi Arabia, Bahrain habituated to following US: Iran
Apr 10, 2019 09:03Iran says Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are habituated to following their “extra-regional master” the United States, shortly after the two Arab states welcomed a decision by Washington to blacklist an Iranian military force.
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Iran’s Persepolis defeats Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahli 2-0 in AFC Champions League
Apr 10, 2019 00:03Iran’s Persepolis have returned to winning ways in group D of the AFC Champions League with a 2-0 victory over Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahli in Dubai.
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Amnesty to join legal fight against UK arms sales to Saudi amid Yemen atrocities
Apr 09, 2019 12:27Amnesty International says it is joining a fresh legal fight to end Britain’s weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, as the kingdom continues to kill Yemeni women and children in its years-long war against the impoverished southern neighbor.
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Qatar files lawsuits against UAE, Saudi banks over currency intervention
Apr 09, 2019 01:57Qatar has filed three lawsuits in London and New York against Saudi and Emirati banks, accusing them of using what it called overseas currency manipulation to sabotage its economy amid an ongoing Riyadh-led diplomatic and trade boycott against Doha.