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Furious Sisi serves opposition parties with stern warning

Egypt’s president Wednesday gave a thinly veiled but stern warning to opposition politicians calling for a boycott of presidential elections in March, saying he would die first before allowing anyone to disrupt security and stability and threatening to take unspecified measures against...

Hundreds flee ISIS rocket attacks in Iraq's E. Mosul

Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have fled "liberated" areas of eastern Mosul amid ongoing rocket attacks by Daesh terrorists, according to local security sources. "Hundreds of families have fled their homes in northeastern Mosul," Iraqi Police Brigadier-General Omran Mohamed told Anadolu Agency...

Israel evicts settlers from West Bank outpost

Israeli police began evicting dozens of hardline Jewish settlers from a wildcat outpost on Wednesday, just hours after unveiling plans for 3,000 new homes in other West Bank settlements. Hundreds of officers marched into the Amona outpost near Ramallah to carry out the evictions ordered by...

Israel authorises 3,000 settler homes in West Bank

Israel announced Tuesday night the construction of 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the fourth such announcement in the less than two weeks since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. "Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have...