BAGHDAD, Feb 3 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, declared yesterday that, a senior leader of the Daesh group was killed, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Abu Hassan al-Ghreibawi, the group leader in southern Iraq, and Ghanim Sabah, responsible for the movement of the Daesh operatives, were killed, al-Kadhimi, who is also commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a tweet.
ALGIERS, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The trial over the murder of a French mountaineer opens in Algeria this week, more than six years after he was beheaded by Daesh group-linked militants during a hiking trip.
Herve Gourdel, 55, was abducted on Sept 21, 2014 while hiking in Djurdjura National Park, whose dense forests, gorges and picturesque lakes are a draw for hikers but which has long been a sanctuary for militants.
Three days after he disappeared, gunmen from militant group Jund al-Khilafa published a video of his execution-style killing.
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed bilateral ties over the phone, an official statement said, reports Anadolu Agency.
Turkey-US relations along with Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Upper Karabakh, Syria, Libya, and the COVID-19 pandemic were also talked about.
Kalin and Sullivan agreed to strengthen the NATO alliance and to take steps that boost regional and global peace and stability.
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: US President Joe Biden yesterday reimposed tariffs on aluminium imports from the United Arab Emirates, reversing a last-minute decision by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: The Turkish foreign minister on Tuesday stressed the importance of negotiations based on sovereign equality to resolve the Cyprus issue, reports Anadolu Agency.
Negotiation on sovereign equality is required in resolving the Cyprus issue, "if there is sovereign equality, then there can be two states," Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint news conference with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), President Ersin Tatar, in Lefkosa.
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: Lebanon has increased the price of subsidised bread and flour by 20 per cent for the fourth time in less than a year despite residents experiencing the worst economic crisis in the country's history.
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: The UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, confirmed that the Joe Biden administration is about to complete reviewing pending arms sales to the Emirates.
Al-Otaiba said: "Should they review it? They absolutely should, but they're going to find what we already know. It was done through a very straightforward negotiating process."
03 Feb 2021; MEMO: During political-security discussions, Chief of General Staff of Israeli Aviv Kochavi has agreed on forming a defence alliance with the US, Arabs48 reported yesterday.
The Arab site reported Haaretz saying that Kochavi agreed to the alliance after coming under pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
BAGHDAD (AP) — From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse — silent, windows shut.
After 6 p.m., one knock on its steel-plated doors and a portal is opened to a different world rarely found in Iraq’s capital.
CAIRO, Feb 2 (NNN-MENA) – The number of Turks that received the first dose of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, exceeded 2,137,000 yesterday. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority decided to extend the state of emergency for 30 days, to curb the spread of the virus.
Turkey started mass vaccination of health workers on Jan 14, after authorities approved the use of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine.
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