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AMMAN, Aug. 20 (YPA) - Jordanian MP Ahmed Qatawneh warned of the dangers of Israel annexing Jordanian lands adjacent to the border, against the backdrop of government plans to expropriate and evacuate areas in the Jordan Valley for…

NAIROBI, Aug. 20 (YPA) - The head of Ecuador's intelligence service, Michele Sensi-Contugi, his American wife, four other US citizens, and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed during a leisure flight in central Kenya’s…

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, Aug. 20 (YPA) - A strike by Ben Gurion Airport staff has caused major disruption to air traffic, with several passenger services suspended and operational procedures within the airport disrupted. The Airports Authority…

GAZA, Aug. 20 (YPA) - The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Thursday that 10 people were killed over the past 24 hours amid ongoing Israeli occupation military operations in the Gaza Strip. According to the ministry's daily…

GAZA, Aug. 20 (YPA) - Palestinians in Gaza City on Thursday laid to rest the bodies of 50 people recently recovered from under the rubble of homes destroyed in Israeli occupation strikes, amid ongoing violations of the Arab- and US-brokered…

BEIRUT, Aug. 20 (YPA) – Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of airstrikes, detonations, and controlled demolitions across several villages in southern Lebanon at dawn on Thursday. Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported that…

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (YPA) - US President Donald Trump has announced the launch of an unprecedented economic offensive and isolation campaign against Iran, warning of severe economic repercussions for any country whose institutions provide…

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (YPA) –  Human Rights Watch said that settlers' attacks in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving Palestinians into forced displacement, warning that dozens of Palestinian villages and communities face the risk of…

HEBRON, Aug. 20 (YPA) – Zionist armed settlers early today set fire to a Palestinian home in Khirbet al-Fara, south of Hebron. According to the Palestinians sources, settlers from the colony of Otniel, built on Palestinian-owned land south…

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (YPA) –  The number of US service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database. The Pentagon updated the database on Wednesday, recording…