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Reporters gathered at the Riyadh Airbase in Saudi Arabia watch footage presented by the Kingdom’s Defense Ministry showing warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis in Yemen targeting the Presidential Palace in the country’s southern province of Taiz, on April 19, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat/Ali Al-Oraifi)
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An image grab taken on April 19, 2015 from a video reportedly released by the Islamic State (IS) group through Al-Furqan Media, one of the Jihadist platforms used by the militant organisation on the web, purportedly shows men described as Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya kneeling on the ground in front of masked militants before their beheading on a beach at an undisclosed location in Libya. (AFP)
ISIS video purports to show killing of Ethiopians in Libya
Cairo, AP—A video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Sunday appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by the extremist group’s Libyan affiliates. The 29-minute online video purports to show...Caption:
Sibel Siber, a former prime minister and candidate for the presidential elections in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), speaks with AFP during an interview in the northern part of Nicosia on April 6, 2015, ahead of the northern enclave’s presidential elections on April 19. (AFP)
Northern Cypriots vote for new leader who can succeed in peace talks
Nicosia, Reuters—Turkish Cypriot voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, hoping he or she will succeed in forging a peace deal with Greek Cypriots on the ethnically split island. Opinion polls put conservative incumbent Derviş Eroğlu in the lead...Caption:
Iraqi security troops head to Ramadi on the orders of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to re-enforce troops there, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Iraqi forces retake most of Iraq’s largest refinery: officials
Baghdad, Reuters— Iraqi forces retook most of the country’s largest refinery from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Saturday, security officials said, reversing gains by the militants who seized parts of the sprawling complex this week. The...Caption:
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)