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...The Israel Defense Forces said they killed Hassan Hussein Salame, a senior Hizbollah commander who recently led “terrorist activities” against Israeli civilians and soldiers....
...It was a serpent for Saddam Hussein. A bee for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And a missile-like arrow for Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov....
...Sensing the way things were going, PLO leader Yasser Arafat agreed to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...He was tried, charged, put on death row, and then through chance when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he emptied the prisons and he was free....
...The brief, secret trial of Awadallah and Sharif Hassan was a foregone conclusion....
...“In Somalia sometimes things cook for a while and then explode out of nowhere,” said Abduikadir Hassan Samatar, a Guriel community leader....
...Huneiti also said Bassem Awadallah, a former finance minister and chief of staff to King Abdullah, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a distant member of the royal family, have been arrested....
...It was Prince Hassan, the uncle sidelined years ago by the late Hussein to give way to Abdullah, who acted as an intermediary....
...Fuad Hussein, Iraq’s foreign minister, declined to confirm whether the Saudi and Iranian delegations held a meeting on the sidelines of the conference, saying the recent talks between the two states began...
...Bassem Awadallah, a former Jordanian finance minister who rose through the political ranks to become the king’s chief of staff in 2015, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a distant relative of the royal family,...
...The head of state insisted the dispute had been resolved within the family, pointing to the intervention of their uncle Prince Hassan, himself a crown prince before being demoted in 1999, and a statement...
...The two main detainees are Bassem Awadallah, once chief of King Abdullah’s court and a former finance minister, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a minor royal....
...A year ago, strangers approached Hassan’s son and asked questions about his dad’s job — Hassan fled across Baghdad with his family that night....
...Iran has forged strong security, political and trade ties with its neighbour since the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003....
...When the US reneged on its commitment to readmit Iran to world markets, the Islamist reactionaries in Tehran were able to force pragmatists led by President Hassan Rouhani to retreat....
...Their primary target is still the post-Saddam Hussein political system that was ushered in by the US-led coalition after they toppled the dictator in 2003....
...“We are fighting this battle over the entire Lebanese territory,” Hassan Nasrallah, the party’s secretary-general, said in a televised address last week....
...Since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Washington and Tehran have been the dominant foreign actors in Iraq....
...Under Saddam Hussein’s reign, Tehran supported Iraqi Shia opposition groups that eventually gained power after 2003....
...When energy markets reopened after the strikes, oil prices soared by as much as 20 per cent — the biggest percentage jump since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990....
...This month, a year after the US tore up this landmark agreement, President Hassan Rouhani, its architect on the Iranian side, said Tehran would cease to observe a number of its requirements....
...“We are Iran’s backyard,” complained Hassan Sarhan, a lawyer and civil rights activist. “They can do anything here.”...
...“A hundred years has passed since Hassan al-Banna established this organisation. Is it still valid to adopt a concept called political Islam?”...
...“Yesterday, Saddam [Hussein] was in front us, today Trump is front of us. There is no difference. We must resist and win.”...
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