Israeli Midnight Strikes In Syria Kill Six Fighters: Monitor

DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (NNN-SANA) – A total of six pro-government fighters were killed, during an Israeli strike that targeted positions in central Syria after midnight, a war monitor reported. The Israeli missile strike targeted defence factories, where a scientific research centre is located, in the city of Masyaf, in the…

Moroccan king and Israeli’s Netanyahu hold phone call following normalisation of relations

RABAT/JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a telephone conversation during which the Israeli premier invited the king for a visit. The phone call comes three days after an Israeli delegation signed a US-sponsored normalisation agreement with Morocco in Rabat. “The…

Christmas celebrated under pandemic’s shadow

VATICAN CITY, Dec 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of millions acrossthe world celebrated pared-down Christmas festivities on Friday due tocoronavirus restrictions, as Pope Francis called for vaccines foreveryone, describing them as “glimmers of hope in this period ofdarkness and uncertainty”. The pandemic has claimed more than 1.7 million lives and is…

Iraqi Shiite Leader Warns Iran, U.S. Not To Involve Iraq In Their Conflict

BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi prominent Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, warned Iran and the United States not to involve Iraq in their conflict. “Iraq has become a victim to the U.S.-Iranian conflict, and has been greatly affected, as if it is an arena for their conflicts,” al-Sadr said. “Therefore,…

Israel arrests Palestinian over West Bank settler murder

JERUSALEM, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel on Thursday arrested aPalestinian man in connection with the murder of a Jewish settler in theoccupied West Bank, in a case that raised tensions in the area. Esther Horgan, a 52-year-old mother of six and a French-Israeli dualnational, was found dead Monday in a…

Covid-19: Iran allocates funds to import vaccines; Kuwait starts national vaccination campaign

CAIRO, Dec 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — IRAN said that it has allocated funds to buy COVID-19 vaccines from abroad as the obstacles created by US sanctions have been removed. Meanwhile, Kuwait kicked off its national vaccination campaign. Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati said that Iran has allocated 200 million euros…

Syrian air defenses confront Israeli missile attack in Masyaf

DAMASCUS, Dec 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Syrian air defenses responded to a fresh Israeli missile attack that targeted the western Masyaf area in Hama Governorate after midnight Thursday, Syrian state TV reported. The TV aired footage of the air defenses intercepting Israeli missiles in the sky over Masyaf. The Syrian army…

US Pres Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq

WASHINGTON, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump warned he would hold “Iran responsible” in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in Iraq, as the first anniversary of the killing of a top Iranian general in a US air strike approaches. “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit…

US Pres Trump pardons more allies and Kushner’s father, sparking fresh outrage

WASHINGTON, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump issued new pardons for allies including the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and two people caught up in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power. The pardons added to a long list he…

The Former Blackwater Guards Trump Pardoned Were Convicted Of Killing 14 Iraqi Civilians, Including Two Children

WASHINGTON, Dec 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Outgoing U.S. President, Donald Trump, on Tuesday, pardoned four men, convicted in connection with a massacre of civilians in Iraq, in 2007. The Blackwater guards Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard, opened fire in a busy section of Baghdad, resulting in the…
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