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US embassy in Baghdad to send some personnel out
Date: 2014-06-16 08:53:15 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:780354
WASHINGTON, June 16 (MENA) - With Baghdad threatened by the advance of an al-Qaida-inspired insurgency, the State Department is reinforcing security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s capital — and sending some personnel out of town, The Washington Post ....
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Sunni tribal fighters advance to Baghdad -- spokesman
Date: 2014-06-16 08:11:38 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:780192
BAGHDAD, June 16 (MENA) - Sunni tribal fighters are advancing toward Baghdad after seizing provinces including Salah Eddine and Diayala, said a spokesman on Monday. In the territories they have taken over, only Baqouba is under fighting, Abu ....
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Two soldiers went missing in Benghazi violence -- spokesman
Date: 2014-06-16 08:03:55 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:780187
TRIPOLI, June 16 (MENA) - Two personnel of the Libyan special forces went missing in clashes that occurred in Benghazi on Sunday, said a spokesman for the special forces on Monday. There were no casualties among the forces in the clashes, said ....
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Four unidentified bodies found in northern Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-16 07:36:34 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:780186
BAGHDAD, June 16 (MENA) - Iraqi security forces found four unidentified bodies in northern the Iraqi capital on Monday, an Iraqi police source said. The bodies, showered with bullets, were found thrown on the road at Al-Bonouk district in northern ....
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Abducted employee at Libya Commerical Bank released
Date: 2014-06-16 06:44:18 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:780087
TRIPOLI, June 16 (MENA) - Head of the Joint Security Chamber in Obari city said kidnappers released a Commercial Bank employee unharmed after 24 hours while he was on his way to his farm. The employee at the Commercial bank in Obari, identified ....
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Pentagon intensifies U.S. diplomatic security in Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-16 06:16:59 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:780074
WASHINGTON, June 16 (MENA) - The US military is providing intensified security for US diplomatic facilities in Baghdad, the Pentagon said on Sunday. "A small number of (Defense Department) personnel are augmenting State Department security assets ....
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4 rockets launched from Gaza towards Ashkelon - Israeli sources
Date: 2014-06-15 21:53:34 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:162 - ID:779940
GAZA CITY, June 15 (MENA) - Palestinian resistance fighters launched four rockets toward the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Sunday night. An Iron Dome missile defense battery deployed in the area intercepted two of the rockets, while the ....
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11 people killed, injured in two blasts in Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-15 21:52:28 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:161 - ID:779930
BAGHDAD, June 15 (MENA) – Three people were killed and eight others were injured in two bomb devices explosions in Baghdad, a security source said. Two explosion devices went off in central and northern Bagdad, leaving 11 people killed and ....
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Hollande chairs defense council meeting on Syria, Iraq
Date: 2014-06-15 21:31:56 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:159 - ID:779915
PARIS, June 15 (MENA) - French President Francois Hollande will chair a small Defense Council meeting on Syria and Iraq at the Elysee Palace on Thursday. According to Hollande agenda this week, the French president will meet Wednesday with Saudi ....
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UK, Iraq FMs discuss situation in Iraq in phone call
Date: 2014-06-15 21:16:33 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:154 - ID:779907
LONDON, June 15 (MENA) – UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari discussed over phone Sunday the situation in Iraq. Iraq’s leadership should close ranks in a united response to the current brutal aggression by a ....
