August, 2017

• 30 August

  UN envoy announces high-level meeting on Libya

  Ghassan Salame, the United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), has announced a high level meeting chaired by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres will take place next month following talks that Mr Salame is holding in the country this week.

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• 30 August

  Egypt hosts first Supreme Council to Combat Terrorism and Extremism

  Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi chaired on Thursday the first meeting of the Supreme Council to Combat Terrorism and Extremism. El-Sisi called on the council to adopt a comprehensive national strategy to combat both domestic and international terrorism and extremism within a framework that covers the security, cultural, economic, social and …

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• 30 August

  Somalia peacekeeping mission gets renewed

  The African Union’s multinational peacekeeping force in Somalia is shrinking slightly by the end of the year as it heads toward planned withdrawal from the country by 2020. The United Nations Security Council renewed the decade-old mission on Wednesday until the end of next May. The renewal makes some changes …

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• 29 August

  Mali – developpements

  28 aout 2017 : L’Essentiel-Du Jour ________________________________________ MISE EN ŒUVRE DE L’ACCORD, PAIX ET RÉCONCILIATION, STABILISATION ET RELÈVEMENT TABITAL PULAAKU ET CMA SE CONCERTENT POUR LA PAIX AU NORD ET AU CENTRE DU PAYS. (STUDIO TAMANI) MALI: UNE CARAVANE DE LA PAIX SUR KIDAL (RFI) LE GOUVERNEUR SIDI MOHAMED ISCHRACH …

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• 28 August

  Middle East events and news

  EXCLUSIVE: Pro-ISIS Media Outlets: The ISIS Flag Will Fly At The White House And At The Presidential Palace In The Philippines Recent ISIS media campaigns are shining their spotlight on the East-Asian front, where an ISIS affiliate in Marawi, Philippines has succeeded in a partial takeover of the city of …

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• 28 August

  Middle East events and news

  Iraqi MP Hakim Al-Zamili To The U.S.: Enough! We Won’t Allow You To Create A New ISIS For UsIraqi MP Hakim Al-Zamili, head of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, said that the Iraqis “have paid in rivers of blood in order to liberate Mosul” and that they will …

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• 28 August

  Middle East events and news

  Istanbul Friday Sermon By Syrian Cleric Mohammad Basem Dahman: The U.S. Created ISIS To Distort The Image Of Islam In a Friday sermon delivered in Istanbul, Syrian cleric Sheikh Mohammad Basem Dahman said that ISIS was a purely American product, created in order to distort the image of Islam. EXCLUSIVE: …

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• 23 August

  Mattis in Turkey for talks on Syria, Kurds

  Pentagon chief Jim Mattis held talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara on Wednesday focusing on Washington’s arming of a Syrian Kurdish militia viewed as a terror group by Turkey, a move which has strained ties between the NATO allies. Mattis flew in for the one-day visit after stopping in Iraq …

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• 23 August

  Iraq forces advance towards Daesh

  Iraqi forces on Wednesday recaptured several districts and advanced towards the centre of Tal Afar, one of the Daesh group’s last strongholds in the country, as aid workers braced for an exodus of civilians fleeing the fighting. Armoured personnel carriers full of soldiers and fighters of the Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary …

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• 23 August

  Iraq urges Turkey to withdraw forces from Mosul

  Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has urged Turkey to swiftly withdraw its military forces from his country’s northern territories. Al-Abadi made his remarks Wednesday while meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Baghdad.

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