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Civil Defense volunteers wave escalatory steps

NNA – Civil Defense volunteers held a press conference at the protest tent set up off the border, threatening to escalate their move “because of procrastination in dealing with their case,” the NNA correspondent reported on Friday. One of the volunteers, Yousef Mallah, spoke at […]

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Lebanese protesters raise flag at Shebaa Farms

BEIRUT: Residents of southern Lebanon marched Friday on the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, raising the national flag there in protest of the Israeli army’s construction of a road in the area. The march was held in defiance to the Israeli military’s continuing presence in Shebaa Farms, […]

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During lull in Kurdish-Syrian clashes, scores flee city

BEIRUT: Residents of the northeastern Syrian city of Hassakeh took advantage on Friday of a lull in the fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops to flee to safer areas nearby, after fighting intensified the previous day with government warplanes bombing Kurdish-controlled positions in […]