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Syria liberates more areas near Dayr al-Zawr
Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:47PM
The Syrian army and allied volunteer fighters have made fresh gains against militants in a key village in the country’s east, securing areas in an area that recently saw the massacre of hundreds of people at the hands of Daesh terrorists.
Syria’s official news agency (SANA) said on Monday that the armed forces managed to retake control of a major neighborhood in the al-Bghailiye village, north of the city of Dayr al-Zawr.
Syrian forces pushed back militants from the al-Ruwad area, the highest point in Bghailiye, according to the report.
The operation came just two days after Daesh militants blitzed the village and killed more than 300 people, most of them women and elderly people.
The terrorists also kidnapped 400 people, mostly women and children, in Bghailiye late last week.
Military sources said Syrian army had begun a demining operation in the areas they recaptured from the militants in Bghailiye to facilitate the return of residents.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Slain migrant in Beersheba attack lay untreated for 18 minutes, new video shows
TEL AVIV (JTA) — New closed-circuit television footage shows the deadly beating of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a terrorist after an attack in Beersheba laying untreated on the floor for 18 minutes.
The footage released Monday by Haaretz shows Haftom Zarhum, 29, lying on the floor of the Beersheba central bus station before being treated by members of Magen David Adom, who had arrived 10 minutes earlier. The Israeli newspaper did not say how it received the video.
Zarhum was shot several times and attacked by nine people, including Israeli civilians, security forces, prison officials and soldiers, believing he was a terrorist, the footage shows. Four of the alleged attackers have been indicted. An Israeli citizen who attempted to shield Zarhum from the crowd was pushed aside and hit.
The actual assailant, a Bedouin citizen of Israel, killed a soldier and wounded about a dozen others in the Oct. 18 attack at the bus station.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran denounces new US sanctions on ballistic missile program
(JTA) — Days after the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers went into effect, the United States issued new sanctions tied to Iran’s ballistic missile program.
On Sunday, the Treasury Department announced it would impose penalties on 11 individuals and companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for helping to provide Iran with secret materials to develop its ballistic missile program in violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution.
“Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a significant threat to regional and global security, and it will continue to be subject to international sanctions,” Treasury Undersecretary Adam Szubin said in a statement. “We have consistently made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program.”
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From PressTV
Palestinians demand release of hunger-striking journalist from Israeli jail
Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:30 AM
A group of Palestinians have gathered outside an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank, demanding the release of a hunger-striking journalist who is in a critical health condition, Press TV reports.
The demonstrators, among them a parliamentarian, gathered in front of the Ofer prison on Sunday and called on Israel to release Muhammad al-Qiq, who was arrested in November 2015.
Holding banners and pictures of the journalist, the protesters attempted to approach the gate of the military jail. They also called for an end to Israel’s illegal measures against prisoners.
Secretary General of the Palestine National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti (seen below), who was among the protesters, said, “We challenge them; we stand in front of the prison and we sent a message to Muhammad al-Qiq and all his colleagues [that] we are with them.”
Israeli soldiers, however, used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators.
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