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Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri. Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi Court Releases Jabouri

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 10, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad-Hours after the parliamentary vote to strip Iraq’s Speaker Salim al-Jabouri of his immunity, Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council dropped charges against him and closed the case. Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement on...

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A Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at the Israeli Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 16, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Talat

69 Checkpoints in West Bank Hurdle Movement of Palestinians

by Kifah Ziboun | Aug 10, 2016 | Middle East

Hawara checkpoint (Nablus)-At Hawara checkpoint, an Israeli soldier ordered a long line of vehicles to go back from where they came from, without bothering himself to give us a justification for his attitude. Subsequently, hundreds of Palestinians were stranded and...

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef Al Saud. AFP

Saudi Crown Prince Holds Talks with Amber Rudd, U.S. Approves $1.15 Billion Sale of Weapons to KSA

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 10, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Jeddah, Washington- Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has received a telephone call from British Home Secretary Amber Rudd. During the call, they reviewed close historical relations between the two friendly...

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A policeman prepares a man, convicted of various charges, for his hanging in Mashhad, 924 km east of Tehran August 1, 2007.STRINGER/REUTERS

Iran Defies International Community by Launching New Wave of Executions

by Adil Alsalmi | Aug 10, 2016 | World

Iran disregarded the wide international outrage regarding the executions of Sunni Kurds in the past weeks by staging a new wave of executions against Kurdish prisoners. Informed sources said on Tuesday that Iran executed six prisoners from the Uremia Prison, near the...

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A man reacts at a site hit by airstrikes in al-Kalaseh neighborhood of Aleppo. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Iran Incurs Painful Losses in Aleppo, U.N. Calls for Humanitarian Truce

by Nazeer Rida | Aug 10, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut – The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps incurred severe losses during clashes in Aleppo, as eight militants were killed since the Syrian opposition launched a battle towards the end of July to break the siege imposed on the city. IRGC’s Defense News Agency...