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Palestinian Muslim worshippers break their day-long fast during a charity “Iftar” meal outside the golden Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on July 14, 2013. (Photo: AFP – Ahmad Gharabli)
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Opinion: United Kurdistan and a Partitioned Middle East
The sudden move by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in the city of Al-Hassakah, north eastern Syria, was really interesting both in terms of the target chosen and the timing. The regime has launched air raids against Kurdish militias inside the city and its environs while...Caption:
The Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for “Peace Valley”, is seen in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq August 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
World’s Largest Cemetery Grows Bigger in Najaf
Najaf-The world’s largest cemetery, in Iraq’s city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation’s death rate increased with the war on ISIS. The death rate has increased within the ranks of the Popular Mobilization Forces in...Caption:
Sarkozy to run again for French presidency
Republicans Launch French Presidential Elections Battle
Paris- No one was surprised when Nicolas Sarkozy announced his candidacy for presidency. Sarkozy, 61, wants to be the first former president to return to the Élysée Palace after five years of absence following his defeat by current president François Hollande in 2012....Caption:
Bodies of victims lie in front of rescuers in the Italian central town of Pescara del Tronto, on August 24, 2016 after a powerful earthquake rocked central Italy. The earthquake left 38 people dead and the total is likely to rise, the country’s civil protection unit said in the first official death toll. Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities close to the epicentre of the quake, which had a magnitude of between 6.0 and 6.2, according to monitors. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO ZEPPETELLA