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4 Lebanese affiliated to terrorist organization arrested

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The General Security Directorate General issued on Friday the following statement:”In the framework of its follow-up on the activities of terrorist groups and sleeper cells affiliated to them, and after qualitative monitoring, the General Directorate of General Security arrested, as per the signal of the public prosecutor, four Lebanese who had formed a cell linked to a terrorist organization and acting in its favor. During their interrogation, one of the Lebanese arrested nicknamed “Abu Yazeed” admitted his support to a terrorist organization and his recruitment of many young men. He also confessed he was preparing to travel to the city of Raqqa in Syria, passing trough Turkey, to join the fighting in the ranks of the organization.

Iraqi forces brought down the IS flag in the Mosul University complex

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Iraqi forces stormed the Mosul University complex in the city’s northeast on Friday and pushed forward to reach another bridge across the Tigris river beating Islamic State further back, the military said. Major-general Sami al-Aridhi, a senior Iraqi counter-terrorism service (CTS) officer said the forces entered the technical college: “We were able to overcome the obstacles prepared by the terrorists, and we controlled the college and the dorm areas. We also brought down the large Daesh (Islamic State) flag in the university. This flag was known to be the highest one erected on the eastern side,” he said. Iraqi forces aim to take full control of the eastern bank of the Tigris river, which bisects Mosul from north to south, before they can launch attacks on the west.
The recapture of the university is an important gain because it enables further advances as it overlooks areas closer to the river.

Iran will not allow the JCPOA agreement to be renegotiated

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Tillerson said on Wednesday he would recommend a “full review” of the nuclear deal with Iran but he did not call for an outright rejection of the 2015 accord. In reply, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for American and European Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi told reporters in Tehran on Friday that Iran “has many times reiterated that the JCPOA dossier will not open again at any rate.”
Iran will not allow the agreement to be renegotiated and this is the stance of all other member states to the Group 5+1.

Bombing attack in Kandahar killed 11 people and wounded 17 others

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The United Arab Emirates say five of its diplomats died in a bombing attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar that killed at least 11 people and wounded 17 others, including Juma al-Kaabi, the UAE ambassador to Afghanistan. The official Emirates news agency, WAM, said the officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”. The blast, which struck the provincial governor’s office during a visit by the UAE delegation, was one of a string of bombings that hit three Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing nearly 50 people and wounding 100. On the Afghan side, authorities said the dead included two politicians, a deputy governor from Kandahar and an Afghan diplomat stationed at its embassy in Washington. The diplomats were expected to open a number of UAE-backed projects as part of an aid program to Afghanistan. The Taliban denied carrying out the bombing, saying the attack was a result of “internal local rivalry”.

Turkey-Russia High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) meeting to discuss several issues

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are likely to meet next month within the scope of a Turkey-Russia High Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) meeting, claimed a diplomatic source. Ahead of the next month’s HLCC meeting, three fundamental issues were on Turkey’s agenda with the Joint Economic Commission, which was initially convened in Istanbul last October, being the most important. The second matter on the agenda was the Strategic Planning Group and the third and final issue on the Turkish agenda, according to sources, was the Civic Forum, which has subcommittees to establish relations in the economic and academic field and not leave relations in the political field only. In regards to the existing Russian sanctions, Daily Sabah’s diplomatic sources added that the sanctions were gradually being lifted, as they had affirmed that remaining sanctions are there due to sanitary restrictions that are currently being discussed between the two countries.
Meanwhile, visa-free travel to Russia from Turkey was also on the agenda, but enhancing Turkey’s relations with Russia was not an alternative to its relations with the West.

Political consultation meeting within a month between Turkey and Israel

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Israel and Turkey are drafting a road map for a cooperation agenda following an agreement to normalize relations and appoint respective ambassadors in the wake of the 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre. The undersecretaries of the two countries’ Foreign Ministries will meet within one month for a political consultation meeting, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official has told to the Hürriyet Daily News. High-level visits will be planned in line with the decisions taken at the meeting, with the economy and tourism to have priority at the mutual visits, the official said. Turkey will participate in a tourism fair in Israel on Feb. 7 and 8, perhaps at the level of the Culture and Tourism Minister level, the official noted. A visit by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Israel will also be on the agenda when his schedule becomes available. Officials are aiming to update a free trade agreement between Turkey and Israel by expanding it on issues such as agricultural products. At the same time, the two countries will step up cooperation on security issues. Both countries also require consultations on regional security issues such as Syria, and the sharing of security information will be on the agenda during the political consultation meeting, the official added.

Egypt will start receiving 1m barrels of petroleum each month from Iraq

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An agreement signed between the Egyptian government and its Iraqi counterpart to supply Egypt with 1m barrels of Basrah Light crude oil per month with facilitated payment terms will come into effect within the next few days. The announcement was made by Habib Al-Sadr, the Iraqi ambassador to Egypt. The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum visited Baghdad in October, after Saudi Aramco halted the five-year agreement to import 700,000 tonnes of petroleum products a month to Egypt. The Saudi decision to halt shipments led a number of deputies from the National Iraqi Alliance to call on the Iraqi government to export crude oil to Egypt with facilitated payments.

Meeting between the President, Defense and Interior Ministers to discuss security issues in North Sinai

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President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held on Wednesday a meeting with Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi and Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, in addition to a number of leading officials in the army and Interior Ministry to discuss the security situation in North Sinai, according to presidency statement. The statement said that the meeting discussed the security situation all over Egypt, but focused more on the situation in North Sinai which recently witnessed two deadly attacks against security checkpoints in Al-Arish.

Tuesday’s two bombing attacks in Kabul killed 30 people and wounded 78 others

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Officials revised the casualty toll after Tuesday’s deadly twin-bombings in Kabul and said 30 people had been killed and at least 78 wounded. The attack, which appeared coordinated, took place at around 4pm on Tuesday as a convoy of parliamentary staff was leaving the offices in Darulaman Road in PD6. According to reports a suicide bomber blew himself up first at the entrance to Parliament’s offices and then a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives.
Police immediately cordoned off the area and two hours after the attack ambulances could still be heard transporting the wounded to various hospitals in the city. Among the victims was the head of the NDS zone in the PD7 area who was reportedly killed while a female MP from Herat was among the wounded. No further details were released on the identities of the victims. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack soon after the incident.

Civilians are using the rubble of a bridge blown up by ISIS as a lifeline

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The rubble of a bridge blown up by Islamic State (ISIS) in Mosul to block the advancing of Iraqi forces has become a lifeline for civilians,”Now there are people entering and people leaving,” said Major General Sami al-Aridi “The ones who left are returning, and those who are leaving now are coming from … neighborhoods where there are currently clashes.”
He said he expected the latest evacuees to return in a day or two as Iraqi forces pushed further west. It’s complicated the task of the military which must fight among civilians in built-up areas against the enemy.

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