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A member of the Kurdish peshmerga forces sit with a weapon during an intensive security deployment. Reuters

Peshmerga Forces Prepare for Mosul Battle, Liberate 11 Villages

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 15, 2016 | Middle East

Erbil, Baghdad- Military operations north, east and south Mosul are accelerating to crack down ISIS in preparation for launching a conclusive operation to liberate the city. Peshmerga forces have become only 15 Km away from Mosul city from the east after the progress...

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses the media in Ankara. Photo: Reuters

Turkey Praises Saudi Position against Coup Attempt

by Said Abdul Razzak | Aug 15, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara- Turkish cabinet denied on Sunday claims saying Prime Minister Benali Yildirim had hinted that Saudi Arabia supported the failed coup attempt in Turkey last July. Sources close to the cabinet’s leadership told the official Anadolu agency that a number of...

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Palestinians walk past the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem before the Friday prayer, on October 23, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Settlers Attack Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinians Arrested and Wounded

by Nazir Majli | Aug 15, 2016 | Middle East

Tal Aviv- Sunday’s attacks on Al-Aqsa mosque on the memorial of Tisha B’Av heightened the level of tension in Eastern Jerusalem. Muslim prayers tried to defy these assaults but the Israeli police arrested dozens of Muslims and Jews and wounded 15 Palestinians;...

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Opinion: Iraq – The Graveyard of the Iranian Regime

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 15, 2016 | Opinion

When Saddam Hussein naively invaded Iran in 1980, he thought that the chaos that accompanied Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power was an opportunity to regain what his first enemy, the Shah of Iran, made him surrender by force. The former Iraqi president refused to heed...

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques arrives in Jeddah yesterday/SPA

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Rewards Decisive Storm Participants

by Abdul Hadi Habtor | Aug 15, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has ordered on Sunday paying one-month salary to active participants at the front lines of the operations Decisive Storm and Renewal of Hope in Yemen. The salary will be paid from the capital...