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Colombian Movement Defending Peace

Bogota, April 5 (Prensa Latina) Members of the Defend Peace movement asked the National Liberation Army (ELN) on Friday to decree a unilateral ceasefire to help channel dialogue with the Colombian government. They did so through a letter signed by several former peace process negotiators with the former guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) and other personalities who served as facilitators of dialogue at different stages with the ELN. Among them were former Vice President Humberto de la Calle, former High Commissioner for Peace Frank Pearl, former Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo, former Constituent Alvaro Leyva, former Labor Minister Clara Lopez and Senator Ivan Cepeda of the Alternative Democratic Pole. The letter was also signed by Rodrigo LondoƱo (Timochenko), president of the Revolutionary Alternative Force of the Commonwealth party, and other former FARC-EP guerrilla fighters. On behalf of the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of C

Libya’s Haftar forces close in on Tripoli, capture former international airport

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Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar say they have advanced into the southern outskirts of the country’s capital city and seized the former Tripoli International Airport in a dangerous escalation.  Ahmed Mismari, a spokesman for Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), said the forces were in full control of Tarhouna and Aziziya, two towns near Tripoli, as well as their villages nearby. "Aziziya is now under our control, the road to Aziziya that reaches Zeltan is also under our control. In addition, Alhira district is under our control as well as Tarhouna," Mismari said. "This is considered a great achievement and progress towards Tripoli, it means that we are technically inside Tripoli," he added. Earlier Friday, forces allied to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), administered by Fayez al-Sarraj, had pushed back Haftar's forces from a key checkpoint less than 30 km  from Tripoli. Media reports said 145

Terrorists equipping missiles with chemical warheads in Syria’s Idlib: Report

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Members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, together with militants from the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria, have reportedly mounted chemical warheads on more than a hundred missiles in cooperation with European experts in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the  Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency   that the foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants had modified some 120 missiles with toxic chemicals in a bid to strike residential targets as well as Syrian army positions in the western province of Hama and Latakia. The sources noted that the terrorists, in cooperation with the so-called civil defense group White Helmets, have transferred the missiles from one of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham’s arms depots to another cache in Sahl al-Rouj area west of Idlib on board five ambulances. PressTV-‘Fateh al-Sham terrorists move chlorine barrels to NW Syria’ Jabhat Fateh

Afghan Peace Council to Invite Taliban to Kabul

MENAFN - Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KABUL - The Afghan government will invite Taliban representatives to capital Kabul as part of ongoing peace efforts, a top official said Thursday. "We will officially invite Taliban officials to the national peace meeting in the coming days," Mohammad Umer Daudzai, head of the High Peace Council tasked with striking a peace deal with the militants, told Anadolu Agency. Daudzai said the meeting would be attended by some 2,000 Afghan citizens, representing people from all walks of life, adding that he was expecting fruitful results following the participation of Taliban representatives. He went on to say that he was expecting a second meeting between the Taliban, Afghan politicians and civil society representatives in Qatar, later this month. "Following the national peace meeting, the Afghan politicians and NGOs will prepare to hold talks with the Taliban in Qatar. We hope for representation of the Afghan government in this meeting,&quo

US decision to nuclearize Saudi Arabia very irresponsible: Scholar

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The United States government has taken a very irresponsible step by purportedly deciding to secretly nuclearize Saudi Arabia, American writer and retired professor James Petras says. The administration of US President Donald Trump has reportedly approved six authorizations that allow American companies to secretly provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear technology or technical assistance. According to a document, issued by the Department of Energy and seen by Reuters on Wednesday, the US firms had requested their government to keep their approvals secret. “In this case, each of the companies which received a specific authorization for (Saudi Arabia) have provided us written request that their authorization be withheld from public release,” the department’s National Nuclear Security Administration wrote in its document. Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of American lawmakers has raised concerns about Washington’s nuclear dealings with Saudi Arabia despite Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salma

Russia ‘not backing Haftar’s Tripoli offensive’

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Russia says it has not assisted forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in their latest push to take over Tripoli, calling for a political solution to the recent flare-up of tensions in Libya. Asked if Russia was backing Haftar’s new offensive on the Libyan capital, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that Russia was not involved. Haftar on Thursday announced that his forces would begin an offensive against Tripoli, which is currently controlled by the county’s internationally-recognized government. The so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), under Haftar’s command, claimed that its advance on the country’s west was meant to root out what it called “terrorist groups” in the restive region. Peskov said Moscow was monitoring the developments. “We are closely following the situation in Libya,” the Kremlin spokesman said. “Of course we consider that the most important thing is that (military) operations there do not lead to bloodshed. The situation sho

France won’t take back Daesh terrorists, their families captured in Syria: Interior minister

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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has dismissed reports that his country is mulling over repatriating Daesh militants and their families detained in Syria after the elimination of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” of the Takfiri terrorist group in the war-torn country. “It's logical that our services considered all hypotheses. This was one of the hypotheses they prepared,” Castaner said at a press conference on Friday following a meeting of G7 interior ministers in Paris. “No communal repatriation was under consideration to be carried out,” he said, reiterating that France would nonetheless study bringing back children of the terrorists on a “case-by-case basis.” The top French diplomat also rejected an allegation by daily newspaper  LibĆ©ration that France's policy with regards to Daesh in Syria was being dictated by public opinion. LibĆ©ration  reported on Friday that the government had voiced readiness in early March to repatriate around 250 men, women and

Terrorists Prefer Cash Over Cryptocurrency, Even Privacy Coins: Report

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Moldova Police Storm Ukraine Consulate Over ‘Visas for Terrorists’ | Balkan Insight

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Moldovan officers on Wednesday arrested a number of staff in the consulate in Odessa, Ukraine, suspected of illegally selling visas to terrorist suspects, among others. A Moldovan officer maintains a police barrier tape, sealing off an area. Photo: EPA/Doru Dumitru Officers of the General Prosecutor’s Office in Moldova and the Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, stormed the country’s General Consulate in Odessa, Ukraine, on Wednesday, where they arrested staff suspected of illegally selling long-stay visas to terrorist suspects. The reported price for these illicit services ranged between 1,000 and 3,000 euros, and sources said visas were given to three terrorism suspects from Syria and Egypt. The raid came after Moldova in February detained three foreign nationals from Syria and Egypt who have acknowledged terrorist links and made detailed statements, according to prosecutors. SIS officers found out that the network in the consulate include

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