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ISIS leaders fleeing Iraq towards Syria; claims Iraqi defence minister

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2016-08-01

BAGHDAD (APP) – Iraq’s Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi has said that Islamic State group leaders and their families have sold...

UN peace plan in Yemen awaits rebel Huthis response

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2016-08-01

KUWAIT CITY (APP) – Yemen’s government on Sunday accepted a UN-proposed plan to end fighting that has left thousands dead,...

Turkey angered by German ban on Erdogan speech

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2016-08-01

ANKARA (APP) – Turkey on Sunday condemned a German court decision banning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing his supporters...

Tokyo elects Yuriko Koike as first woman governor

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2016-08-01

TOKYO (APP) – Veteran politician Yuriko Koike was elected Sunday as Tokyo’s first woman governor, according to media exit polls,...

Ankara mayor asks US to deliver Gulen

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2016-08-01

ANKARA (APP):The United States must extradite Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen to Turkey to remove any suspicion that Washington was involved...

US backing Kurd fighters against ISIS in Syria

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2016-08-01

BEIRUT (APP) – Advancing Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by US-led air strikes now control 40 percent of the Islamic...

Truck bomb strikes foreign guest house in Kabul

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2016-08-01

KABUL (APP) – A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck a guesthouse popular with foreigners in Kabul early Monday, a security...

Islam cannot be equated with violence: Pope Francis

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2016-08-01

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (APP) – Pope Francis refused to equate Islam with violence on Sunday, saying Catholics could be...

Turkey and Germany at odds after blocking Erdogan speech

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2016-08-01

ISTANBUL (APP) – Turkey summoned a senior German diplomat Monday, the embassy said, a day after a rally in Cologne...

Palestinian wants two state solution from Israel on 1967 lines

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2016-07-31

PARIS, July 31, (APP/AFP) – Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said any reboot of peace talks with Israel should happen...