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Iraqi demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in Al-Najaf on Wednesday. (AFP)
Iraqi protesters set fire to Iranian consulate in Najaf
Najaf — Iraqi Protesters set fire to Iran's consulate in the holy city of Najaf on Wednesday night, two months into the country's most serious social crisis in decades.Tall flames and thick clouds of smoke rose from the entrance of the consulate in the southern city, AFP's correspondent there said."Victory to Iraq!" and "Iran out!" protesters chanted, outraged at the country they blame for propping up a government they've been demonstrating against for nearly two months.Since October 1, protesters in Iraq have been calling for the fall of a central government they see as both irretrievably corrupt and beholden to Tehran.Iraq's capital and its Shiite-majority south have been gripped by the largest grassroots protests since 2003.The change of regime...
November 27, 2019

Iraqi protesters set fire to Iranian consulate in Najaf

Syrian refugees Ibrahim Bitar, 42, rear right with red jersey, and his sister Iman Bitar, center from behind, react after arriving with other Syrian refugees at Rome's Fiumicino international airport as part of a humanitarian corridor on Wednesday. — AFP
113 Syrian refugees welcomed in Italy
ROME — More than a hundred Syrian refugees arrived in Rome on Wednesday, the latest wave of refugees from the war-torn country to be escorted to safety in Europe.The 113 men, women and children arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport from Lebanon where church groups had arranged their safe passage out of refugee camps."Viva Italy," shouted the approximately 30 children among the group, as a host families and volunteers greeted the new arrivals — some of them family members — with smiles and tears."These kids have only known the war and refugee camps. But now they'll have a future in Italy," said Marco Impagliazzo, president of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which together with the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (FCEI) and the Waldensian...
November 27, 2019

113 Syrian refugees welcomed in Italy

An oil and gas terminal on the outskirts of Zwara, Libya, in seen in this Jan. 6, 2015 file photo. — AFP
Fighting suspends output at Libya oil field
TRIPOLI — Libya's National Oil Corporation said fighting triggered a suspension of production on Wednesday at a key field in the country's southwest.Forces loyal to eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar said they carried out air raids against "armed groups" that had attacked Al-Feel field.Haftar's forces control Al-Feel, which produces some 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) in a joint venture between NOC and Italy's ENI.The NOC said the air raids hit the entrance to the field and a housing compound used by staff."NOC staff at the field are protected in safe areas, but they cannot resume their normal duties," the firm's chairman Mustafa Sanalla said.Production would remain suspended until military activity ceased and all armed personnel withdrew from...
November 27, 2019

Fighting suspends output at Libya oil field

A Lebanese anti-government protester hold a mask of Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh during a protest in front of the central bank headquarters in Beirut to protest against the economic policies of the bank on Wednesday. — AFP
Lebanon army says 16 arrested after night of unrest
BEIRUT — Lebanon's army said on Wednesday it detained 16 people during a third night of violence across the country, as tensions increased following more than 40 days of unprecedented protests.Clashes erupted on Tuesday evening in Tripoli, the northern port city where protests have maintained momentum since anti-government demonstrations began on Oct. 17.On the outskirts of Beirut, clashes shook the neighborhoods of Ain Al-Remmaneh and Chiyah."Army units arrested 16 people following incidents that shook several areas of Lebanon," a statement read, adding that 51 troops were wounded.In Tripoli, dozens of people were wounded when "dissenters" attacked banks, breaking windows and destroying money machines, the official ANI news agency reported.They had previously...
November 27, 2019

Lebanon army says 16 arrested after night of unrest

Iraqi demonstrators help an injured youth on Al-Rashid street in the capital Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government protests, on Wednesday. — AFP
More protesters killed in Iraq anti-govt unrest
BAGHDAD — Two protesters were shot dead in Baghdad on Wednesday and other Iraq cities were shrouded in acrid smoke from burning tires as demonstrators pressed their campaign of anti-government rallies.Masked youths sealed off streets with makeshift barricades across the restive south as schools and public offices stayed shut."The government has lost all its legitimacy. We don't want them," said one protester in the southern city of Basra."They meet every day and claim to be discussing our demands, but we expect nothing from them."For nearly two months, Iraq's capital and Shiite-majority south have been gripped by the largest protests since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.In central Baghdad, young demonstrators donned helmets and medical...
November 27, 2019

More protesters killed in Iraq anti-govt unrest

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, is seen during a meeting with members of the Basij, a militia loyal to the Islamic republic's establishment, on the occasion of the
Khamenei says people foiled 'very dangerous' plot
TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday praised the country's people for foiling a "very dangerous" plot after violence erupted during protests this month against a fuel price hike.New York-based Human Rights Watch meanwhile accused the Islamic republic of "deliberately covering up" more than 100 deaths and thousands of arrests during the crackdown.The demonstrations first flared on Nov. 15, hours after a midnight shock announcement that petrol prices would immediately go up by as much as 200 percent in the sanctions-hit country.The unrest soon turned violent and saw protesters attack police stations, torch petrol pumps and loot shops, before being quashed within a few days.Iranian officials have confirmed five people were killed and...
November 27, 2019

Khamenei says people foiled 'very dangerous' plot

A Turkish soldier stands near his armored vehicle on a highway near the northern Syrian town of Ain Issa in Idlib province on Tuesday. — AFP
HRW: Turkish-backed groups involved in looting, summary executions in north Syria
BEIRUT — Human Rights Watch on Wednesday denounced abuses including executions and home confiscations in a Turkish-controlled swathe of northern Syria, where Ankara says it wants to resettle Syrian refugees.Turkey last month established what it has dubbed a "safe zone" in a 120-km (70-mile)-long strip of land it seized from Syrian Kurdish fighters along its southern border.The New York-based watchdog urged Turkey and its Syrian proxies to investigate "human rights abuses, in many cases potential war crimes," in the area running 30 km (18 miles) deep into Syrian territory."Executing individuals, pillaging property and blocking displaced people from returning to their homes is damning evidence of why Turkey's proposed 'safe zones' will not be...
November 27, 2019

HRW: Turkish-backed groups involved in looting, summary executions in north Syria

The S-400 anti-aircraft missile system is on display in Moscow in this file photo. — AFP
Turkey didn't buy Russian defense system 'to keep in box': Minister
ANKARA — Turkey on Wednesday rejected criticism from the United States over its testing of a newly-acquired Russian missile defense system."You don't buy a product to keep it in a box," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference.Turkey's acquisition of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia this summer was met with consternation by its NATO allies and threats of sanctions from Washington.US officials had lately suggested Turkey could be spared sanctions — automatic for countries that buy Russian weapons — if it did not activate the system.But Turkey tested the S-400 on Monday and Tuesday at a military base in Ankara province, using military jets including American-made F-16 fighters."It's concerning," US Secretary of State Mike...
November 27, 2019

Turkey didn't buy Russian defense system 'to keep in box': Minister

Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in Tehran in this Nov. 16, 2019 file photo. — AFP
HRW says Iran 'deliberately' suppressing unrest death, arrest tolls
BEIRUT — Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused the Iranian authorities of "deliberately covering up" deaths and arrests during a crackdown on demonstrations across the country earlier this month.Protests broke out across sanction-hit Iran on Nov. 15, hours after a shock announcement of fuel price rise of up to 200 percent.Reports of deaths and arrests emerged as security forces were deployed to rein in demonstrations, which turned violent in some areas, with dozens of banks, petrol pumps and police stations torched.The extent of the crackdown is unclear, however, primarily due to an internet outage imposed during the unrest in a step seen as aimed at curbing the spread of videos of the violence.HRW said the authorities were "deliberately covering up the scale of the mass...
November 27, 2019

HRW says Iran 'deliberately' suppressing unrest death, arrest tolls

 Iraqi demonstrators help an injured youth during clashes with security forces in the capital Baghdad's Al-Rasheed street near Al-Ahrar bridge on Tuesday. -AFP
Iraq's deadly unrest closes roads, schools across south
KARBALA, Iraq — Iraqi protesters sealed streets with burning tires across the country's restive south on Wednesday, as schools and public offices stayed shut a day after anti-government rallies devolved into bloodshed.For nearly two months, the country's capital and Shiite-majority south have been gripped by the largest protests since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.The rallies have paralyzed daily life in many towns and cities, with schools intermittently closed, streets shuttered and government offices empty.On Wednesday, religious authorities in Iraq's holy city of Karbala ordered their network of private schools there, as well as in nearby Babylon and the second holy city of Najaf, kept shut for two days.They feared a repeat of the previous day's...
November 27, 2019

Iraq's deadly unrest closes roads, schools across south

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