As many as 50 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group were either killed or injured on Sunday during fresh clashes with the Kurdish fighters in Syria's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish borders, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
The Islamic State (IS) militants captured one of the weapons shipments airdropped by the United States to the Kurdish fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG) in the city of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Tuesday.
Arab foreign ministers agreed on Sunday to jointly act against extremist groups, particularly the Islamic State (IS), but did not clearly mention possible coordination with the United States, the official MENA reported.
Egypt's presidential election commission on Tuesday officially announced ex-military chief Abdel- Fattah al-Sisi to be the new president of the most populous Arab state, after achieving a landslide victory over leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy in the three-day polls held in late May.
The four-day Arabian Travel Market ( ATM) in Dubai shows an increasing gap between the booming Gulf states and countries affected by the Arab turmoil.
The Arab leaders rushed through a declaration in Doha on Tuesday and granted Damascus' seat at the Arab League to the Syrian opposition, acknowledging the right of the member countries to provide all means of self-defense to the Syrian opposition.
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