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September 21, 2018
Turkey detains 85 military personnel over Gulen ties
ANKARA — Turkish police on Friday detained 85 military personnel in countrywide raids over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.Prosecutors in Ankara issued arrest warrants for 110 active duty personnel in the air force, state-run news agency Anadolu said, as part of a probe into followers of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.Police launched operations in 16 provinces including Ankara while those detained ...
September 21, 2018
Israel minister angered by leak of West Bank security warning
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister called on Friday for the security services to intervene to stop Cabinet leaks after details were broadcast of a confidential military briefing urging increased aid for the West Bank to avert new violence.Leaks from meetings of Israel’s security Cabinet are not uncommon even though it handles the most sensitive government issues.They are a regular source of finger-pointing between the small number of top ministers who ...
September 21, 2018
Russia, Turkey agree borders of demilitarized zone in Idlib
SARAJEVO — Russia and Turkey have agreed on borders of the demilitarized zone around Syria’s Idlib, Russia’s top diplomat said on Friday, part of a deal aimed to prevent a military assault on the last rebel enclave.“Just yesterday or the day before, the militaries of Russia and Turkey agreed the concrete frontiers of the demilitarized zone,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with his Bosnian counterpart Igor Crnadak.Moscow ...
September 21, 2018
Israel warns it will cut Palestinian tax transfer if killer’s family is paid
JERUSALEM — Israel will cut the tax revenue it transfers to the Palestinian Authority if it pays the family of the killer of an American-Israeli settler, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said on Friday.Kahlon said he had instructed that any sum paid to the attacker’s family be withheld from tax revenue that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) under interim peace deals.“I will examine other ways to limit ...
September 21, 2018
Israel showed Russia proof Syria to blame for downed plane: Israeli military
JERUSALEM — Israel has provided Moscow with proof it bore no responsibility for bringing down a Russian plane in Syria, an Israeli military official said on Friday.Fifteen Russian crew were killed when an IL-20 surveillance plane crashed near Latakia in northern Syria on Monday. Russia has said Syria shot the plane down shortly after Israeli jets hit a target in the area.Initially the incident appeared likely to cause friction between ...
September 20, 2018
Egypt court frees Mubarak sons on bail
CAIRO — The two sons of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were released on bail on Thursday, days after being arrested for alleged stock market manipulation, according to a judicial source and their lawyer.Gamal and Alaa Mubarak were detained on Saturday and accused along with three other people of failing to notify the stock exchange of agreements to acquire majority stakes in several banks through front companies.A Cairo court ordered ...
September 20, 2018
Arab Israeli poet jailed for online incitement freed
JERUSALEM — An Arab Israeli woman jailed for five months for incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization in online poems and other social media posts was released from prison on Thursday.Dareen Tatour posted a video clip of herself reading her poem “Resist, my people, resist them,” in October 2015, accompanied by pictures of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces, according to authorities.The posts on YouTube and Facebook ...
September 20, 2018
Hezbollah leader boasts group has ‘precision missiles’
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Thursday it had acquired “precision missiles” despite extensive efforts by neighbor and foe Israel to prevent the Shiite movement developing this capability.“It has been done. The resistance now owns precision missiles” as part of its weaponry, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address during the key Shiite commemoration of Ashura.Israel this month acknowledged carrying out more than 200 strikes over the past 18 ...
September 20, 2018
Palestinians say one killed as Israeli troops fire on Gaza protest
GAZA — Israeli forces opened fire during a demonstration in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian youth, the Palestinian health ministry said.An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops came under attack on the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip, stones and firebombs were thrown at them and they responded with “riot dispersal means”. Live rounds were fired according to “open-fire regulations”, she said.Ashraf Al-Qidra, a spokesman for ...
September 20, 2018
Iran and Israel call each other nuclear threats, ask UN to take action
LONDON/JERUSALEM — Iran asked the United Nations to condemn what it described as Israeli nuclear threats against it on Thursday, while Israel said it was stepping up security around its atomic sites as a precaution against threats from Tehran and its regional allies.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a visit to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor in August to warn the country’s enemies that it has the means to destroy ...
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