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President of Yemen’s “Revolutionary Council Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi takes part in a gathering of Shi’ite Houthi movement in a northern Sana’a stadium on February 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS)
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A pro-Russian rebel looks at the door of a house, with “There are people” written on it, in the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuglegirsk in the Donetsk region, on on February 7, 2015 (AFP PHOTO/ ANDREY BORODULIN)
Leaders aim to hold Ukraine summit in Minsk this week
Munich, AP—The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine aim to hold a summit in Minsk this week as they try to stem fighting in eastern Ukraine, officials in Germany and France said Sunday. The plan for a meeting Wednesday in the Belarusian capital emerged from...Caption:
Iraqis celebrate the lifting of curfew in central Baghdad on February 8, 2015 (AFP PHOTOALI AL-SAADI)
Bombs kill 40 in Baghdad before abolition of curfew
Baghdad, AP—Baghdad’s decade-old nightly curfew ended after midnight Sunday, hours after bombs exploded in and around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 40 people in a stark warning of the dangers still ahead in this country under attack by the Islamic State of...Caption:
Khaled Khoja, new leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, speaks during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 05 January 2015. (EPA)
Assad is a delusional madman: Khalid Khoja
Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—The president of the Syrian National Coalition Khalid Khoja said that opposition forces are not fighting Bashar Al-Assad and his regime, but its main backer Tehran, dismissing the Syrian president as the “executive manager” of...Caption:
Bombs are pictured on a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane at a base before its launch to strike ISIS in the Syrian city of Raqqa on February 5, 2015. (Reuters/Petra News Agency)