West Asia
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Iraq's PMU warns Trump not to take any hostile action against Iraqis, resistance groups
Apr 03, 2020 05:58Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance group, which is part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), has warned US President Donald Trump about taking any hostile measures against the Iraqi nation and resistance groups.
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Anti-siege committee calls for intl. action to help Gaza amid coronavirus outbreak
Apr 03, 2020 05:49An international committee fighting against the ongoing Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip has called for a collective international action to lift the siege as humanitarian and health conditions are deteriorating in the Palestinian enclave amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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As coronavirus spreads, UN seeks nationwide ceasefire in Yemen
Apr 03, 2020 05:38UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has engaged in talks with the country's warring parties to secure a nationwide ceasefire amid fears of the spread of the new coronavirus in the war-ravaged impoverished Arab nation.
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Hamas holds Israel fully responsible for COVID-19 outbreak in Gaza
Apr 03, 2020 05:27The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has held the Israeli regime "fully responsible" for the consequences of any COVID-19 outbreak in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Turkish forces, militants shell Syria’s Hasakah; two civilians killed
Apr 03, 2020 05:18At least two people have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when Turkish military forces and allied militants launched barrages of mortar shells at residential neighborhoods in the western sector of Syria’s Northeastern Province of al-Hasakah.
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Syrian UN envoy calls for removing of all US economic sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Apr 03, 2020 05:11Syria’s Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Ja’afari has reiterated a call by his country for immediate and unconditional lifting of all US economic sanctions, a few days after the coronavirus killed the first patient in the Arab country.
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Saudi Arabia launches massive arrest campaign against activists amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 02, 2020 14:01Saudi authorities have launched a new round of massive arrest campaign against media activists and human rights campaigners, exploiting the world’s focus on the global coronavirus pandemic, a rights group says.
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Ansurullah calls on Saudi-led alliance to consider Yemen’s mediation proposal
Apr 02, 2020 13:57Yemen’s popular Ansarullah Movement has called on the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors to consider its proposal for 12-party mediation aimed at ending the bloody war on the impoverished Arab state.
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Young Palestinian wounded by Israeli forces attains martyrdom
Apr 02, 2020 11:47A young Palestinian man has attained martyrdom weeks after being seriously wounded by live Israeli fire during a protest rally in the occupied West Bank.
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US forces withdraw from strategic airbase in Iraq’s Anbar, to officially hand it over next week
Apr 02, 2020 05:40An Iraqi security source says a group of American troops, who are part of the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, has pulled out of a strategic airbase in Iraq’s western province of Anbar and moved to another military site in the country.