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A leading Egyptian newspaper released a number of documents proving that Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his counterpart in Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan have long been supporting the ISIL and al-Qaeda terrorist groups’ global operations. “A leaked document in Qatar’s embassy and a letter to Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on October 26, 2016, show Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed’s support for certain key al-Qaeda members in the Arabian Peninsula,” Arabic language al-Badil newspaper wrote. Based on the documents, US Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said that the Saudi and Abu Dhabi crown princes have established continued contacts with two Yemeni nationals, namely Ali Abkar al-Hassan and Abdollah Faisal Ahdal, who are on the US blacklist of most wanted terrorists. The documents also revealed the detailed activities and operations of the two Yemeni nationals in support of the

In a bizarre diplomatic development, none other than the state of Israel has branded billionaire philanthropist George Soros, one of Hillary Clinton’s most generous donors, a “threat”, accusing him of “continuously undermining Israel’s democratically elected governments” and saying that Soros-funded organizations “defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself”. How did this escalation materialize? It started in Hungary, where as we have repeatedly documented, Soros has emerged as one of the government’s most visible adversaries. Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who has spent a large part of his fortune funding pro-democracy and human rights groups even as he has  been accused of abusing taxpayer funds to organize the overthrow of “unfriendly” regimes , has repeatedly been targeted by Hungary’s right-wing government, in particular over his  support for sending more migrants into Europe . Most recently, Prime Minister Viktor Orban backed a campaign in which Soros

© AFP 2017/ ISIS confirms that the terrorist group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, Al Sumaria TV channel has reported citing own source in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. According to the TV channel, ISIS has released a statement for its members confirming the death of al-Baghdadi. The ISIS-linked news agency of Amaq has not released any statement on the issue. In June reports appeared that al-Baghdadi was allegedly eliminated as a result of a Russian Aerospace Forces strike on a militant command post south of the Syrian city of Raqqah in late May. However, so far, there has been no evidence confirming these claims.