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30 August

Qatari defense official prepares to fly WSO in F-15E

Boeing awarded $500 million Qatar F-15 support contract

The US Defense Department awarded Boeing a $500 million contract to train maintenance and aircrew teams for Qatar's fleet of 36 F-15QAs

30 August

Women and children living in the Rukban camp along the Syria-Jordan border in 2016.

Staff Writer With AFP

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UN ‘ready to facilitate’ evacuations from Rukban camp in southern Syria

The UN will help evacuate civilians from the "abysmal" Rukban camp in the desert in southern Syria near the border with Jordan

30 August

Staff Writer With AFP

Yemen: Motorbike suicide bomb and roadside IED kill separatist fighters in Aden

Three southern Yemen separatist fighters were killed in a suicide bombing in Aden, the first such attack since government forces were first driven out

29 August

Supporters of the Southern Transitional Council attend a rally in Aden, Yemen

Staff Writer With AFP

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Yemen’s southern separatists retake control of Aden from government forces

Yemeni separatists have regained full control of the interim capital Aden following clashes with government forces who withdrew from the southern port city

28 August

Jared Szuba

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Yemen government claims recapture of Aden from southern rebels

The Yemeni government announced it has assumed control of the de facto capital Aden from southern separatists

28 August

Staff Writer With AFP

Gaza police killed in overnight bomb attacks

Hamas said that two overnight bomb attacks killed three police officers in the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian enclave was placed under a state of alert

27 August