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Muslim Scholars Deem Trump ‘Enemy Against God’
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
Iranian media unveiled a letter this month written by “100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals” that declared President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “enemies against God.” In this letter, the Muslim scholars warned...
PARKER: Time for new immigration law
Daily Herald - Utah
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Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans. The H-2A rules were already...
Italy's Jews express pain at strike on Gaza church
ANSA
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July 17, 2025
The Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) on Thursday expressed "pain" after two people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip. It said that the church is "a place of worship and prayer, a space...
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ after two people killed in apparent Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church
WKBT - Wisconsin
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(CNN) — Pope Leo XIV is “deeply saddened” after two people were killed in a strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church, he said in a Vatican telegram on Thursday. Calling the strike a “military attack,” the Vatican’s Secretary of State Pietro Parolin...
Trump's approval rating on immigration and government spending has slipped, new AP-NORC...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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And while a majority of Americans do see Trump as at least "somewhat" capable of getting things done following the passage of his sprawling budget bill, fewer believe he understands the problems facing people like them. Most don't see positive...
More Than a Label: The Politics of ‘Settler’ in Israel and Palestine
Media Line
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July 17, 2025
In my latest explainer for The Media Line, I take a hard look at a deceptively simple word: settler. Following the killing of Palestinian American Saif Musalat in the West Bank, and the arrest of two Israeli suspects described by most media as...
Israel strikes Syrian city of Sweida, vows to protect Druze from govt forces
TVC News Nigeria
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July 16, 2025
Israel launched attacks against Syrian government forces in southwestern Syria for the second day on Tuesday, vowing to maintain the area demilitarised and to defend the Druze minority as deadly battles raged near the Israeli border. According to...
Israel strikes Syrian Defence Ministry as clashes between government and Druze minority rage on
The Malta Independent
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Associated Press Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 15:49 Last update: about 26 minutes ago The Israeli military launched Wednesday a rare airstrike in the heart of Damascus, hitting the Syrian Defence Ministry headquarters as clashes in the southern Syrian...
The Balancing Act for Israeli Druze
New Lines Magazine
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July 17, 2025
The small, generally unobtrusive and law-abiding Druze community in Israel was briefly in the international news at the beginning of May, when it organized several demonstrations to demand that the Israeli military protect its coreligionists from...
Israel bombs Syria army HQ after warning to leave Druze alone
Oman Observer
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July 16, 2025
Sweida, Syria: Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people....
Syrian President Sharaa's FIRST statement on Israeli strikes in Damascus, says, 'We are the ones who..'
DNA India
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July 17, 2025
The Israeli military on Wednesday, i.e., July 16, stated that it struck the entrance of the Syrian army’s headquarters in Damascus, adding that the Israel Defence Force (IDF) continues to monitor developments and the regime's actions against Druze...
Syrian officials and Druze leaders announce renewed ceasefire after rare Damascus attack
WSBT 22 - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced Wednesday a renewed ceasefire after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country’s postwar political transition and have drawn...
Israeli soldiers’ voices, a tool for peace?
The Jakarta Post
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uly brought joyful family holidays before the next school semester. But in war zones, families continued to lose loved ones; since late May alone, reports say, children were among some 700 Palestinians killed and over 4,000 injured at food...
Syrian clashes ease after Israeli airstrikes in Damascus
The Gazette - Colorado
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Deadly sectarian clashes in Syria seemingly eased on Thursday, after a ceasefire was announced between groups fighting in Suwayda and government forces started to withdraw from the Druze-majority southern province. Syria’s interim President Ahmed...
Israel carries out largest displacement in West Bank since 1967, UN warns
Middle East Monitor
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July 16, 2025
The United Nations warned Tuesday that mass displacement in the occupied West Bank has reached unprecedented levels since the start of Israel’s occupation of the territory nearly 60 years ago. The military operation “has been the longest since …...
North Carolina’s Democratic Party passes resolution calling for arms embargo on Israel. Many state leaders have stayed silent
CNN
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July 17, 2025
CNN — When the executive committee of North Carolina’s Democratic Party passed a resolution in June calling for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, it set off another episode in the party’s ongoing struggles with how it addresses the Israel-Hamas...
RELIGION HEADLINES WED 7-16-25
SRN News
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July 16, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix ( SRN NEWS ) International Christian Concern reports that the gospel is spreading in Iran despite some of the worst persecution in the world. ICC President Jeff King says “Conservative estimates suggest more than one million...
Israel bombs Syria army HQ after warning Damascus to leave Druze alone
The Economic Times
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July 16, 2025
Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people....
Israel transfers authority for Ibrahimi Mosque in West Bank to settler council: Report
Yeni Safak
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Israeli authorities have stripped the Palestinian-run Hebron municipality of administrative powers over the Ibrahimi Mosque and transferred them to a settler religious council, according to a report Tuesday by the Israel Hayom daily. Describing...
‘Diplomatic intoxication’: Ireland slammed by US Ambassador to Israel over Palestine stance
Sky News Australia
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July 17, 2025
Ireland’s Parliament looks set to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state in a move that would alienate Washington and Tel Aviv. The bill, which is currently in pre-legislative scrutiny, would also seek to impose sanctions on Israeli...