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Israel, Gulf States to Sign Non-Aggression Pact, Says Ex-Qatari PM
Qatar’s former prime minister said on Monday that Israel and the Persian Gulf states would soon sign a non-aggression pact that could also include Morocco. “Now it [Trump’s peace plan] will be followed by a non-aggression agreement between Israel and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE) in addition to Egypt, Jordan and possibly Morocco,” wrote Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani on Twitter, according to i24 News. The former prime minister said that he was “not against” this kind of agreement, and that the unanimous decision by the Arab League last week to reject the Trump plan was not in the best interests of the region.
Feb. 13, 2020
EU Countries Pushing for Recognition of State of Palestine
A group of European Union member countries led by Luxembourg is planning to put forward an initiative at a meeting on Monday of European Union foreign ministers to accord joint EU recognition of a Palestinian state. The move is in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has already discussed the initiative with the foreign ministers of Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Malta and Slovenia.
Feb. 16, 2020
IDF strikes Hamas in Gaza after two rockets hit southern Israel
We are preparing for a wide-ranging operation in Gaza,’ Netanyahu tells community leaders
Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Sunday morning in response to two rockets fired from Gaza at southern Israeli communities on Saturday, according to the Israeli military. The army confirmed that two rockets were fired from the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave, landing in open terrain and causing no damage. According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, a military compound used by Hamas was hit. “This strike will impede the Hamas terror organization’s future abilities,” said the statement. Consequently, Israel announced it was suspending the easing of the sanctions on Gaza, including the expansion of its fishing zone.
Feb. 17, 2020
Russia Warns Israel of War Over Syria
Russia’s ambassador to Syria this week issued what some saw as a veiled threat should Israel continue bombing Iranian assets in the war-torn country. On February 6, an aerial attack on a target near Damascus killed 20 Syrian and Iranian military officials. It also caused Syrian air defenses to inadvertently fire on an airplane carrying 172 passengers. The plane managed to safely land at a nearby airport. Israel Defense Minister Naftali Bennett later hinted that the attack was just another in a long series of Israeli strikes against Iranian assets that are admittedly in Syria for the purpose of threatening the Jewish state. But Russian Ambassador Alexander Yefimov wasn’t interested in Israeli justifications. In an interview with Sputnik Arabic, Yefimov called the Israeli raids “provocative and very dangerous.” He further cautioned that “this increases the possibility of conflict over Syria.” Since Syria is already in conflict, his warning was taken to mean that the ongoing Israeli raids could eventually result in an armed clash between the Jewish state and Russian forces in the region.
Feb. 17, 2020
Hezbollah erects massive statue of Iranian general on Israeli border – VIDEO
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah calls for boycott of US products as ‘part of the battle’
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Chairman of the Professors for a Strong Israel, discusses the growing threats from Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in video. Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah has called for Lebanese citizens to boycott US goods and products as “part of the battle” against President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, the militia leader said in a speech on Sunday. “Why are we not resorting to boycotting American products? This is part of the battle. If we do not want to boycott all goods, we choose some companies, and this is a form of confrontation,” Nasrallah said in his televised speech. “The Israeli is afraid of death while the American’s weakness is his security and economy,” he added.
Feb. 17, 2020
Syrian forces consolidate control of Aleppo, air strikes under way
The Syrian army said on Monday it had taken full control of dozens of towns in Aleppo’s northwestern countryside and it would press on with its campaign to wipe out militant groups “wherever they are found.” The advances were made after President Bashar Assad’s forces drove insurgents from the M5 highway linking Aleppo to Damascus, reopening the fastest route between Syria’s two biggest cities for the first time in years in a big strategic gain for Assad. Government air strikes on Monday hit Darat Izza, near the Turkish border about 30 kilometers north of Aleppo city, wounding several civilians and forcing two hospitals to close, according to hospital staff. Witnesses also reported air strikes in southern areas of Idlib province.
Feb. 17, 2020
Rockets hit U.S. coalition base in Baghdad, no casualties
US offers Iraq partial troop withdrawal in secret talks
Rockets hit a U.S.-led military coalition’s Baghdad headquarters early on Sunday but caused no casualties, a coalition spokesman said, in the latest attack to target U.S. facilities in Iraq. Washington has blamed Iran-backed paramilitary groups for increasingly regular rocketing and shelling of bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq and of the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Sunday’s attack, before dawn, was carried out with “small rockets” and caused no casualties, the coalition spokesman said in a statement on Twitter. He provided no further details. An Iraqi military statement said three Katyusha rockets had hit the fortified Green Zone which hosts the U.S. Embassy, other foreign missions and Iraqi government buildings. It said a fourth hit a nearby logistics base for Iraqi paramilitary groups.
Feb. 17, 2020
7 dead in alleged Israeli attack on Iranian compound in Syria
Three Syrian terrorists and four Iranian members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard were killed on Thursday night in an air attack against a military compound near the international airport in Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. According to the report, a vehicle had also been hit in what “seems to have been an attempt to stop a weapons delivery.” In a rare response to the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that maybe another country did it. “I don’t know what happened last night. Maybe it was the Belgian air force,” Netanyahu said during a Friday interview with Radio Haifa.
Feb. 14, 2020
Taliban confirms Afghan peace deal ‘finalized,’ will be signed this month
No Let Up in Taliban Attacks, Fresh Orders Awaited Over Deal With US
The Taliban on Monday officially acknowledged it has reached an agreement with the United States to reduce violence in Afghanistan and said the deal would be signed by the end of February. The statement marked the Taliban’s first public acknowledgement of the agreement in principal announced by the United States on Thursday calling for a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan. While far short of the complete cease-fire sought by the Afghan government, such a commitment would represent a key development in the talks that are ultimately aimed at removing U.S. forces from Afghanistan, where they have been stationed since late 2001. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief negotiator with the Taliban, said Sunday he was “cautiously optimistic” the agreement could lead to a more lasting peace in Afghanistan.
Feb. 17, 2020
Blast in Balochistan capital Quetta kills 22, wounds 35
An explosion killed 22 people and wounded 35 in Balochistan’s capital Quetta. The wounded were evacuated to Seoul Hospital, Quetta, and a declaration of emergency has been issued at the hospital’s trauma center. Two policemen were among the victims of the explosion that occurred near the Quetta Press Club. Quetta Deputy Inspector General Abdul Razzaq Cheema said that so far, the blast “seems to be a suicide attack”. The blast took place as a demonstration was ongoing near the press club. Several vehicles parked in the vicinity have also been damaged due to the impact of the blast. The Balochistan insurgency is a guerrilla war waged by Baloch nationalists against the governments of Pakistan and Iran.
Feb. 17, 2020
Air strikes on Yemen kill 31 civilians after Saudi jet crash
Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed to have shot down one of its jets. The Tornado aircraft came down Friday in northern Al-Jawf province during an operation to support government forces, a rare shooting down that prompted operations in the area by a Saudi-led military coalition fighting the rebels. The deadly violence follows an upsurge in fighting in northern Yemen between the warring parties that threatens to worsen the war-battered country’s humanitarian crisis.
Feb. 16, 2020
Mainline Protestant pastors driving support for same-sex marriage: LifeWay study
A majority of Protestant pastors in the United States still disapprove of same-sex relationships, but the overall approval has grown largely due to mainline pastors, a new study by LifeWay Research reveals. Only about 8 percent of self-identified evangelical Protestant pastors say they have no issues with same-sex marriage, and their percentage has remained the same since 2010, according to a new survey by the Nashville-based research group. However, support among self-identified mainline Protestant pastors for same-sex marriage has jumped from a third (32 percent) in 2010 to almost half (47 percent) in 2020.
Feb. 17, 2020
China Raids Churches for ‘Illegal’ Bibles, Threatens Fines up to $1,400
Government officials within China have confiscated Bibles from churches in recent months and threatened fines as part of an intensified crackdown on Christianity and an effort to eradicate “illegal publications,” according to a new report. The campaign has targeted illegal underground churches as well as legal Three-Self churches, which are registered with the government. “If our Bibles are taken away, we have no more,” a pastor of a Three-Self church in Jiangxi province told Bitter Winter, the watchdog behind the report. “We are thinking of asking our congregation members to hide them in the mountains.” December, around 10 government officials raided a different Three-Self church in Jiangxi in search of “pirated Bibles” either not printed in the country or printed at illegal printers, Bitter Winter reported. The pastor told them the church owned only legal Bibles printed within the country, but the officials nevertheless seized 30 Bibles. According to the persecution watchdog, similar raids have taken place “all over the country” as part of a nationwide campaign to “eradicate pornography and illegal publications.”
Feb. 13, 2020
Gunmen in Burkina Faso kill 24 men, kidnap 3 youths in attack near church
Gunmen have killed 24 men, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three youths in Burkina Faso, AP reported, citing an official. The attack on Sunday was the latest in a series against religious leaders in the increasingly unstable West African nation. The mayor of Boundore commune, Sihanri Osangola Brigadie, said the attack occurred in the town of Pansy in Yagha province. About 20 attackers separated men from women close to a Protestant church. At least 10 other people were injured. The gunmen reportedly looted oil and rice from shops and forced the three youths they kidnapped to help transport it on their motorbikes. Both Christians and Muslims were killed before the church was set on fire, according to a government security official.
Feb. 17, 2020
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Coronavirus: US will start testing people with flu symptoms, officials say
“Every scenario on the table” says WHO
Senator Cotton: China Refusing to Hand Over Evidence About Wuhan BioLab
Chinese doctors say Wuhan coronavirus reinfection even deadlier
People in the US experiencing flu-like symptoms will be screened for the latest coronavirus that originated from China, according to health officials. Health systems in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle will screen patients through a national flu surveillance program, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced during a briefing on Friday. Officials said the program is likely to expand as more confirmed cases are expected in the coming days and weeks. The move follows reports of the 15th coronavirus infection in the US and the deaths of more than 1,300 people in China. CDC officials said that there could be undetected cases of the mysterious illness in communities across the US, as the country experiences a dramatic spike in flu as the season approaches its halfway point.
Feb. 17, 2020
Swarms of locusts overwhelm Yemen’s Taiz
Locust swarms plagued several parts of war-ravaged Yemen particularly in the southwestern province of Taiz, a Yemeni official said Monday. “The plague of locusts is still expanding across the country’s agricultural areas and badly affects the pasturelands and crops,” the local government official said on condition of anonymity. He said that Yemen’s government took no necessary measures to confront the outbreak of locusts that’s threatening the local economies. “The government’s recent capability is too weak and it is unable to confront such plague,” he added. He urged the United Nations to help reduce the effects caused by the plague of locusts.
Feb. 17, 2020
Storm Dennis hit several western European countries over the weekend with very heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. Minimum central air pressure of 920 hPa was recorded on Saturday, February 15, making it the second-strongest North Atlantic extratropical cyclone since records began more than 150 years ago; just 7 hPa short of the all-time North Atlantic record, set by the Braer Storm of 1993. The storm left at least 2 people dead in the United Kingdom, dumped more than a month’s worth of rain on South Wales, prompted the UK Environment Agency to issue a record number of flood warnings for one day, and caused widespread severe flooding across parts of the country. A yellow wind warning was still in place across the north and west of the UK on Monday, February 17. It also affected Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, northern Spain, and France.
Feb. 17, 2020
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