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This handout photograph released by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Saturday shows US Vice President Mike Pence (C-L) meeting with Iraqi Kurdish Region President Nechirvan Barzani (C-R) in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. -AFP
American VP avoids Baghdad leaders on surprise Iraq visit
BAGHDAD - US Vice President Mike Pence met Iraqi Kurdish leaders during a surprise visit to Iraq Saturday but avoided traveling to Baghdad for security reasons, as deadly anti-government protests have highlighted Washington's diminished influence.In his first visit as vice president, Pence visited American troops at Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq's Anbar province and also traveled to Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region, for talks with officials there.But Pence "couldn't go to Baghdad for security reasons", a US official accompanying him on the trip told reporters.The trip came after weeks of anti-government rallies across Baghdad and the south.Iraqi officials told AFP that Pence spoke to Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi by telephone."There won't...
November 24, 2019

American VP avoids Baghdad leaders on surprise Iraq visit

Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wave flags and placards as they rally to express their solidarity, outside his Jerusalem office on Saturday. -AFP
Netanyahu rival seeks support from PM's party to form government
TEL AVIV - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's centrist rival Benny Gantz Saturday urged leaders of the premier's Likud party to join him in forming a government after their chief's indictment on corruption charges."In light of the circumstances, I call for the formation of the largest possible government under my leadership," Gantz told a news conference, addressing members of the right-wing Likud."I would be the prime minister for the first two years," he said.And if Netanyahu "is cleared (of any wrongdoing) he could return and become prime minister", Gantz added.Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday he had charged Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, prompting speculation that the end of the premier's...
November 24, 2019

Netanyahu rival seeks support from PM's party to form government

Palestinian labourers wait to cross illegally into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's illegal barrier wall on November 20, 2019, in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva. -AFP
Through the wire -- Palestinians risk all to work in Israel
MITAR CHECKPOINT, ISRAEL - It is well before dawn when the first work deprived Palestinians arrive to sneak through a two-meter hole cut in the metal fence that is supposed to keep them out of Israel.The men are among the thousands of Palestinians working in Israel illegally, risking bad working conditions, exploitation and jail for a chance of employment.On the morning AFP visited, Yunis, from Dahariya in the southern West Bank, was one of hundreds running the gauntlet as police patrolled the area.They play a cat and mouse game with Israeli security -- sometimes making several attempts before crossing without being spotted."I got here at 3:00 am and found police patrols ahead of us," said the bearded and wrinkled 55-year-old."I know I am leaving my house and I may not come...
November 23, 2019

Through the wire -- Palestinians risk all to work in Israel

This picture taken on Saturday shows the aftermath of a car bomb explosion at the industrial zone in the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey. -AFP
Car bomb kills 9 in northern Syria town: Monitor
BEIRUT — A car bomb killed nine people including four civilians in a Turkish-held border town in northern Syria on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said.Two children were among those killed in Tal Abyad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.The area has been shaken by repeated such bombings since Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies seized a strip of border land including Tal Abyad from Kurdish forces in a cross-border operation last month.The Turkish invasion against Kurdish-controlled areas saw Ankara's fighters seize a strip of land roughly 120 kilometers long and 30 kilometers deep on the Syrian side of the border.The operation launched on Oct. 9 displaced tens of thousands and left...
November 23, 2019

Car bomb kills 9 in northern Syria town: Monitor

Jumaa Al-Mustayf welds metal pipes at a camp for the displaced near the town of Hazzanu, about 20 kilometers northwest of the city of Idlib, on September 30, 2019. -AFP
Syria's 'camps metalsmith' welds shelter for displaced
HAZANO, SYRIA — Crouched between olive trees in northwest Syria, Jumaa Al-Mustayf cuts long metal tubes with an electric saw to make tent frames for families displaced by war.With winter approaching in Idlib province, the man nicknamed "metalsmith of the camps" says his welding skills are in especially high demand."So far the orders keep on coming," says the skinny 34-year-old, his skin sunburnt from days working out in the open.Idlib has come under repeated bombardment by the Damascus regime and its Russian ally this year, causing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee north towards the border with Turkey.More than three million people live in the jihadist-held region, and around half of them are already displaced from other parts of the country by...
November 23, 2019

Syria's 'camps metalsmith' welds shelter for displaced

Rifaat Assad
Spain mulls $660m graft case against uncle of Syria's Assad
MADRID — Spain's top criminal court is mulling legal action against President Bashar Assad's uncle for laundering hundreds of millions of euros taken from Syrian state coffers, legal documents showed on Friday.According to documents filed at Spain's National Court, Rifaat Assad is accused of running "a criminal group" responsible for laundering "more than 600 million euros" — around $660 million.Operational since the 1980s, the group — which included eight of his sons, two of his wives and several frontmen — worked to "conceal, transform and launder.. funds illegally plundered from the Syrian state treasury," it said.The 82-year-old is facing similar charges in Paris, where he will go on trial on Dec. 9 for allegedly laundering money from...
November 22, 2019

Spain mulls $660m graft case against uncle of Syria's Assad

Algerian protesters lift banners as they take part in an anti-government demonstration in the center of the capital Algiers on Friday. — AFP
Algeria's anti-election protesters keep up the pressure
ALGIERS — Protesters thronged the Algerian capital for the 40th consecutive week on Friday as they railed against next month's presidential election they say will only keep the old guard in power.They allege the Dec. 12 poll aims to cement the place of a political elite linked to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who stepped down in April after popular pressure.Five candidates are contesting the election after the ailing Bouteflika, 82, was forced out after mass demonstrations erupted in February against his bid for a fifth term.Algeria has seen weekly protests since then demanding major reforms to a political system that has been in place since independence from France in 1962."We demand freedom and will not take one step backwards!" protesters chanted in Algiers...
November 22, 2019

Algeria's anti-election protesters keep up the pressure

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi
US sanctions Iran minister over internet censorship
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — The US Treasury slapped punitive sanctions on Iran's Communications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi on Friday after the Tehran regime blocked internet communications amid violent protests triggered by a petrol price hike."We are sanctioning Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology for restricting internet access, including to popular messaging applications that help tens of millions of Iranians stay connected to each other and the outside world," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement."Iran's leaders know that a free and open internet exposes their illegitimacy, so they seek to censor internet access to quell anti-regime protests," Mnuchin said.The protests erupted across the country on...
November 22, 2019

US sanctions Iran minister over internet censorship

Syrian refugees walk on their way back to the Syrian city of Jarabulus at Karkamis crossing gate, in the southern region of Kilis, Turkey, in this on Sept. 7, 2016 file photo. — AFP
Dozens of Syrians returned after Turkey offensive
ISTANBUL — Dozens of Syrian refugees were returned from Turkey on Friday in the first reported repatriations to the area targeted by Ankara's offensive against Kurdish forces last month, state news agency Anadolu said.Around 70 Syrians, including women and children, crossed from Ceylanpinar in Turkey to Ras Al-Ayn in Syria, Anadolu reported.Muazzin al Mohammed, one of the refugees, said he had been living in Turkey for seven years, adding: "We are happy to return to our homeland. I was 11 years old when I left Ras Al-Ayn."Turkey launched the Syria offensive last month to push Kurdish militants back from its border and create room to repatriate Syrian refugees.Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday that around 200 people had returned to the Syrian town of Tal Abyad...
November 22, 2019

Dozens of Syrians returned after Turkey offensive

Palestinians attend the funeral procession of members of the same family who were killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in this Nov. 14, 2019 file photo.  — AFP
Ninth family member dies after Israeli strike: Ministry
GAZA CITY — A Palestinian wounded in an Israeli strike that killed eight members of his family has died, the health ministry in the Hamas-run strip said on Friday.Mohammed Abu Malhous Al-Sawarka, 40, succumbed after being wounded in "the massacre in which eight members of a family died when they were targeted in their homes," ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement.It said he was the brother of Rasmi Abu Malhous who was killed when his home was hit by an air strike on Nov. 14.Five children and Rasmi's two wives were also killed.Israel has pledged to investigate the incident, saying that their intelligence reports had indicated "no civilians were expected to be harmed".Israel described Rasmi as an Islamic Jihad commander, but Gaza residents have...
November 22, 2019

Ninth family member dies after Israeli strike: Ministry

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