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Bullet holes riddled an Israeli security post at the entrance to Har Adar, where a Palestinian man killed three Israelis on Tuesday before he was fatally shot. AFP

Palestinian Gunman Kills Three Israeli Soldiers near Jerusalem

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 27, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened, at the beginning of the weekly ministerial meeting, to demolish the house of the Palestinian Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal, 37, who killed three soldiers from the Israeli Border Police. Netanyahu also...

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Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit (L) meets with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in Cairo on February 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED

United Nations, Arab League Agree to Activate Cooperation

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Sep 25, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit and UN chief Antonio Guterres have agreed to activate the cooperation agreement signed between the two organizations last year. Aboul Gheit met Guterres at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly,...

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A Russian TU-22M3 long-range strategic bomber dropping bombs in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

Syria: Russian Missiles against Nusra Front in Idlib, Israeli Raids near Damascus

by Taha Abdul Wahed and Asharq Al Awsat | Sep 23, 2017 | Middle East

Moscow and Beirut – A submarine from the Russian Black Sea fleet launched Kalibr cruise missiles against al-Nusra Front positions in Idlib, Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry said that the attack against terrorist targets came in...

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Iraqi Kurds fly Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Irbil. (AFP)

Iraqi Kurdistan Referendum Beats Drums of Ethnic War

by Dalshad Abdullah and Nazeer Rida | Sep 23, 2017 | Features

Irbil, Beirut – Unprecedented tensions have been building between Iran, Turkey and Iraq and between the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s staging of an independence referendum, the consequences of which may lead to a regional conflict against the Kurds. The Kurds have been...

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Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon, addresses the general debate of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Aoun Rejects Settlement, Stresses Refugees’ Safe Return to Syria

by Jordan Dakamseh | Sep 22, 2017 | Middle East

New York – Lebanese President Michel Aoun stressed the urgent need to organize the return of refugees and displaced persons to their homeland after the situation in most of their first places of residence has stabilized. In his official address before the UN...