14 Sep 2020; MEMO: Hamas yesterday welcomed the formation of the “United Leadership of Popular Resistance”, considering it a practical step to turn the national consensus into measures on the ground.
ANKARA (Reuters) - An aid worker from Turkey’s Red Crescent was killed and another was wounded after masked assailants attacked the group’s vehicle near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, the aid agency said in a statement on Monday.
It said the attack took place between al-Bab and the Turkish border town of Cobanbey, despite the vehicle having a Kizilay, or Red Crescent, logo on its roof.
“With the help of our country, I believe the attackers will be captured soon,” Kizilay Chairman Kerem Kinik said.
BEIRUT, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese army killed on Monday Khaled al-Tallawi, head of a suspected terrorist cell in northern Lebanon, after targeting it in a raid overnight, a statement by the Lebanese army reported.
Al-Tallawi had opened fire and threw hand grenades at Lebanese army soldiers as they raided the house of a suspected terrorist in Beddawi which killed four soldiers.
Al-Tallawi then fled with three other militants into fields on the outskirts of the village Kfar Habou in Minyeh-Dinnieh.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to leave late on Sunday for the United States, where he is slated to sign historic normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain on Tuesday.
The UAE and Bahrain will become the third and fourth Arab country to ink a peace agreement with Israel, after Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
JERUSALEM (AP) — For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a U.S. president will host a signing ceremony between Israelis and Arabs at the White House, billing it as an “historic breakthrough” in a region long known for its stubborn conflicts.
But while the optics of Tuesday’s event will evoke the groundbreaking agreements that ended decades of war between Israel and neighboring Egypt and Jordan, and that launched the peace process with the Palestinians, the reality is quite different.
ANKARA, Sept 13 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey and Britain conducted joint naval drill in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish defence ministry said yesterday.
“The British destroyer, HMS ARGYLL, and the frigate, TCG GIRESUN, carried out sea training in the Eastern Mediterranean on Sept 11,” the ministry tweeted.
The drill comes as tensions mount, in the Eastern Mediterranean, between Turkey and Greece, over energy exploration.
RAMALLAH, Sept 13 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestine official, accused the U.S. of pressurising Arab countries into normalising relations with Israel.
“Washington exploits its political and economic power, to force Arab countries to normalise ties with Israel,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee.
“The U.S. government is using all means of incitement, intimidation and pressure” to achieve the goal, she added.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has committed to ending a months-long blockade of oil facilities, the U.S. embassy in the country said in a statement on Saturday, but it was unclear if oil fields and ports would reopen.
The statement said the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) had conveyed “the personal commitment of General Haftar to allow the full reopening of the energy sector no later than Sept. 12”.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has held a call with Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker to try to remove an obstacle to meeting this week’s deadline for forming a new government to drag the nation out of crisis, a Lebanese politician said on Sunday.
Speaker Nabih Berri leads the Amal Movement, a Shi’ite Muslim party allied to the powerful Hezbollah group.
Lebanon’s leadership promised Macron in Beirut on Sept. 1 that they would form a government of technocrats without party loyalties in about two weeks. They have just days left.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A deal establishing relations between Israel and Bahrain will result in direct flights between the countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
“There will be brisk and direct air traffic between the countries,” he said in remarks to the Israeli cabinet, a transcript of which was issued by his office.
The Bahrain deal, announced on Friday, followed a similar accommodation between another Gulf power, United Arab Emirates, and Israel and resulting pledges of direct air connections.
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