The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as the…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Top Vatican diplomat inaugurates, consecrates Catholic church at Jesus’ baptism site
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Germany pledges new aid to Syria at Riyadh summit
German Foreign Minister Baerbock has arrived in the Saudi capital, where a conference on the situation in Syria is being held.
There, Baerbock announced an additional €50 million euros for Syria for…
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Turkish media claims Iran will supply Kurds in Syria with 1,500 drones
Iran has reportedly agreed to supply 1,500 suicide drones to the Kurdish YPG/PKK group in Syria to counter Turkey’s military operations, a journalist of conservative Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak, known for its support for Turkish…
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Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid push
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and…
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Iran carries out air defense exercises amid fear of Israeli strikes
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted an exercise to test its air defense systems on Saturday as part of a broader operation that began earlier in January and is expected to last about two months.
Reports indicate that these…
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ISIS shrine attack prevented in Damascus, Syrian authorities confirm
Syria’s Ministry of Interior confirmed to The Media Line on Saturday that it had thwarted an Islamic State (ISIS) bombing plot targeting the Sayyida Zainab shrine on the outskirts of Damascus, a revered site for Shi’ite Muslims. A…
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EU ministers to lift Syria sanctions at end of month
European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of a meeting of top Middle Eastern and Western diplomats and Syria’s new…
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Donald Trump to push Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel-Saudi Arabia peace
“[President-elect Donald] Trump’s return to the White House will inevitably lead to significant shifts in US policy, both internationally and regionally, due to his contrasting worldview and leadership style compared to Biden,” US policy…
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The threat of Iran-backed militias in Iraq
In the last few months, no one could have imagined that Hezbollah in Lebanon, the crown jewel of the Iranian Ring of Fire, with upwards of 200,000 projectiles aimed at Israel, would have been so degraded. James Bond-like operations…
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Four Islamic State terrorists killed in Iraqi airstrike
Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell, an…
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