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In Iraq's battle for Fallujah, residents gird for long fight

Edit Springfield News-Sun 27 May 2016
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the offensive late Sunday night ... Militants from al-Qaida in Iraq fought two bloody battles with U.S ... The demonstrations were sparked by then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's increasingly sectarian rule that many Sunnis felt had left them without a voice ... Ahmed's family retrieved the body and buried him in the garden next to their home. Ahmed's family also suffered under al-Maliki....

Iraq's Shiite cleric urges protection for Fallujah residents

Edit The Miami Herald 27 May 2016
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says ... His comments were delivered at Friday prayers by his representative Ahmed al-Safi in the holy city of Karbala....

5 Sentenced to Life for 2010 Uganda Bombings

Edit Voa News 27 May 2016
The militants said the attacks were a warning to Uganda to withdraw its troops from the African Union mission fighting al-Shabab in Somalia....

Iraqi troops advance on Islamic State-held Fallujah

Edit Belfast Telegraph 27 May 2016
"Our troops are now in the process of surrounding the city from all (sides)," said Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, the head of the counter-terrorism forces' Fallujah operation ... moving forward, Lt al-Saadi said ... His comments were delivered at Friday prayers by his representative, Ahmed al-Safi, in the holy city of Karbala....

Uganda: 7 Convicted of 2010 Al-Shabab World Cup Bombing

Edit Newsweek 27 May 2016
A Ugandan court convicted seven men on terrorism charges for their involvement in an Al-Shabab bombing in 2010 that killed 74 people ... Somali militant group Al-Shabab, which has ties to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was in retaliation for Uganda joining AMISOM, an African Union force that is fighting the militant group in Somalia....

South Asian migrants say they were put in 'body bags' for deportation from US

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
In a phone interview with the Guardian, 29-year-old Suhel Ahmed, described witnessing his fellow detainees being forcefully placed in the body bags. “That’s something that made us really afraid,” said Ahmed ... Alam is a member of the Bangladeshi National Party (BNP), which has a longstanding rivalry with the ruling Awami League (AL) ... “My body was shaking [in fear],” said Ahmed, of watching people being shocked....

NPA names executive director

Edit Arabnews 27 May 2016
In addition, Ahmed S. Al-Essa was appointed as NPA’s first executive director of the academy ... Al-Obayed of Saudi Electric Company, Abdulaziz Al-Amr of Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, Omar Abdullah Al-Suwailem of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Abdullah bin Ibrahim Alabdulkarim of Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Ammar M....

Israel has issued 729 new administrative detention orders in 2016

Edit Press TV 27 May 2016
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina ... He named 50-year-old Hamad Ahmed Abul Fannouneh, a resident of the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), as the oldest serving administrative detainees, whose jail term has been renewed eight times in a row and has been behind bars since July 7, 2013....

PHL Ambassador to Oman Joins ASEAN Committee in Muscat Tour of Sohar (Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Castañeda, joined other Heads of Missions from ASEAN member Embassies in Oman, in a tour of Sohar in the Al Batinah North Governorate on May 25 ... The ASEAN group held meetings with the Wali of Sohar, Sheikh Ali Bin Ahmed Al Shamsi; officials of the Al Batinah branch of the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and officials of the Port of Sohar, Oman's major port and transshipment hub....

50 Days of a Broken Promise in Bahrain

Edit Indonesia News 27 May 2016
Last month, four days after Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa stood next to Secretary John Kerry at a press conference and... ....

Uganda: Five given life in jail for Kampala bombing

Edit The Oslo Times 27 May 2016
May 27, Kampala ... Among them was Isa Ahmed Luyima, the mastermind of the attacks claimed by militant Islamist group al-Shabab ... The Oslo Times ....

Yemen: IFJ calls on UN to exert pressure for release of 10 journalists on hunger strike in Houthi jails (IFJ - International Federation of Journalists)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
In a to UN envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the IFJ backed the concerns expressed by its affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS) and the journalists' families, about the inhuman conditions the jailed journalists face ... According to the IFJ's latest figures, 15 journalists have been killed, 14 remain captive by Houthis - and 3 by Al Qaida - and 9 have been tortured in Yemen since 2015....

Iraq’s Ayatollah Sistani calls for protection of civilians in Fallujah

Edit Press TV 27 May 2016
“Saving innocent people from harm's way is the most important thing,” Sistani’s representative Ahmed al-Safi quoted the ayatollah as saying during a Friday Prayers sermon in the city of Karbala, adding that the cleric has described protection for the residents of Fallujah even more important “than targeting the enemy.”....
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