Parliamentary speaker Mohamed al-Lahham on Tuesday said that four new candidates had submitted their applications to run for the Presidency in the upcoming elections next month, which President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. The speaker announced the names of four new candidates, with a Christian and a woman among them, in a parliamentary session in Damascus. With the …
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Syrian President Bashar Assad has officially registered to run for President in next month’s polls, which he is widely expected to win despite the widespread conflict in his nation. The poll will be the first multi-candidate presidential vote in Syria, after changes were made to its constitution to accommodate it. The poll has already been widely criticized by much of …
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Palestine and Israel on Monday appeared to have accepted that their peace talks are on the verge of collapsing as the deadline for the negotiation expires soon, with a breakthrough nowhere in sight. After a year’s worth of intensive diplomacy by US Secretary of State John Kerry, with the aim of brokering an agreement by April 29, the United States’ …
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On Friday, “outlaws” threw several petrol bombs at government buildings in the southern city Ma’an. The violence in the city this week has led to the death of one person and wounded five policemen, according to security sources. The violence began on Sunday, when gunmen fired at policemen guarding a courthouse in the night, seriously wounding one of them. It …
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On Friday, twin bomb attacks in a Shiite political rally killed 28 people in the city of Baghdad, as Iraq prepares for parliamentary elections on Wednesday next week. Campaigning for the polls has reached a fever pitch, as this would be the first time such a poll will be held after US troops withdrew from the country in 2011. Prime …
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On Friday, clashes between security forces and the Islamists south of Cairo led to the deaths of two people. Eyewitness reports suggest that a woman was shot in the stomach by a birdshot pellet during a protest in the governorate of Fayoum by Islamists. Reportedly, several others have been injured in the clashes, which have erupted in other parts of …
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The peace talks between Palestine and Israel are back to square one again as Israel torpedoed the US brokered talks as a response to the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal on Thursday. In an interview with the BBC, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed up their stance in the situation, saying that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can “have peace with Israel or …
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The British police have asked for the help of Muslim women to stop young people travelling to Syria to be a part of the conflict in the country. The move follows a steep increase in arrests regarding the Syrian conflict. There has been an increase in the number of British people arrested returning from or travelling to Syria, from 25 …
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The Israeli Security cabinet is set to meet on Thursday to discuss its response to the unity deal struck between the Hamas rulers of Gaza and the Palestinian leadership. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not react well to the agreement between the two rivals on Wednesday, and accused Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of “choosing Hamas, not peace”. The ministers …
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In a report on Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said there has been no improvement in the access of foreign aid for millions of desperate Syrians, thereby violating a resolution passed in the Security Council two months ago. In the resolution, the first such humanitarian resolution on the Syrian civil war, the Security Council demanded that the armed opposition …
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