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Angered by Syria's return to Arab fold, US extends 'national emergency' on Damascus
May 09, 2023 08:49US President Joe Biden has extended for another year the national emergency declared with respect to Syria as Washington fumes over Damascus’s return to the Arab League after more than a decade.
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‘Iraq will announce results of probe into Lt. Gen. Soleimani assassination soon’
May 09, 2023 07:54An Iraqi politician says all judicial procedures are underway in Baghdad regarding the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror Commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani and his companions, adding that the results of the investigation will be announced soon.
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'Deeply disturbing': UN envoy slams Israel’s demolition of Palestinian school
May 09, 2023 01:04The United Nations special coordinator for West Asia has condemned the demolition of an EU-funded primary school in the occupied West Bank, describing the move as "deeply disdaining."
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Israel assassinates 3 senior Islamic Jihad commanders, wives, children in Gaza strikes
May 09, 2023 00:14At least three high-profile commanders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement have been assassinated after Israeli military aircraft launched a series of targeted strikes on the Gaza Strip, days after a fiery flare-up of violence set the besieged coastal enclave on edge.
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US military tankers continue to smuggle crude oil from Syria’s Hasakah to northern Iraq: Local sources
May 08, 2023 08:50The US military has reportedly used dozens of tanker trucks to smuggle crude oil from Syria’s northeastern Province of Hasakah to areas in northern Iraq, as Washington continues to loot energy resources in the war-torn country.
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UN set to suspend food aid for Gaza, occupied West Bank
May 08, 2023 01:14The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations says it will suspend food aid to a large number of impoverished Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank due to funding shortages.
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Israeli forces demolish donor-funded Palestinian elementary school in central West Bank
May 07, 2023 08:16Israeli military forces have demolished a donor-funded Palestinian primary school in the central part of the occupied West Bank, in a flagrant violation of Palestinian children’s right to education.
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Syria readmitted to Arab League with immediate effect: Reports
May 07, 2023 08:00The Arab League has reportedly granted Syria a conditional return to the 22-member body with immediate effect.
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Lebanon bans largest Cypriot airline from entering airspace over Israeli shares
May 07, 2023 03:35Lebanon has barred the largest airline in Cyprus, TUS Airways, from flying in the Arab country’s airspace or landing at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, due to the fact that an Israeli corporation owns nearly half of the shares in the company.
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Iraqi resistance group: 5,000 operations carried out against occupying US forces
May 07, 2023 02:53The leader of Iraq’s Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance group says his resistance fighters have so far carried out 5,000 operations against occupying American forces present in the Arab country.