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Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ international relations chief

Hamas Looks Forward to Start Anew with Iran

by Kifah Ziboun | Feb 19, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Ramallah- Hamas declared that it was looking forward to start over a clean slate on cooperation with Iran in a statement that also served to prove the underlying disputes between the two. Osama Hamdan, top representative of Hamas, eight days after the visit of a...

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Half a Million Civilians under Blockade in Syria, Organizations Speak of Larger Figures

Half a Million Civilians under Blockade in Syria, Organizations Speak of Larger Figures

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 18, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

London- 486,700 people in Syria are subject to blockades, over half of which are entrapped by regime forces. These figures are derived from an original 4.6 million people who reside in areas difficult to reach, according to last month’s report of the United Nations...

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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz whilst leading the council of ministers’ session in Riyadh (SPA)

A Difficult Start for Geneva 3 and a Russian-American Meeting to Prevent its Collapse

by Michel Abu Najm | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Whilst the UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura announced the “official” beginning of talks that aim to end the civil war yesterday in Geneva, followers of developments noticed UN confusion on the first day of talks despite the fact that it ended with a glimmer of...

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International Support for the Islamic Coalition and Talks of Sending Soldiers to Syria

by Heba El Koudsy | Dec 16, 2015 | World

The formation of an Islamic military coalition announced by Saudi Arabia received worldwide support yesterday. The Press Secretary for the White House Josh Earnest welcomed this new bloc which consists of 34 countries and said that all efforts to confront terrorism...