US, Russia Seal Syria Truce, Will Carry out Joint Strikes
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 THULHIJJA 9, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir congratulates citizens, Netanyahu faces Nigeria’s First blood residents on Eid Al-Adha backlash over economic to Guardiola KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah yesterday congratulated citizens and residents on ‘ethnic cleansing’ woes hit Eid as Man City the advent of Eid Al-Adha, expressing best wishes, health remark ram sales win derby and prosperity to all. A statement by the Amiri Diwan noted that HH the Amir extended his sentiments to the Arab and Islamic worlds wishing security and stability, and asked Allah Almighty to protect Kuwait and its people. — KUNA 8 21 20 US, Russia seal Syria truce, Min 30º will carry out joint strikes Max 43º High Tide 05:10 & 20:20 Deal raises rebel doubts as fighting rages Low Tide 13:10 40 PAGES NO: 16990 150 FILS AMMAN/GENEVA: The United States and Russia MoI warns false, reached a breakthrough deal early yesterday to try to restore peace in Syria, but air strikes hours later added malicious reports to rebels’ doubts that any ceasefire could hold. The agreement, by the powers that back opposing sides in affect operations the five-year-old war, promises a nationwide truce from sundown tomorrow - the first day of Eid al-Adha, KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry pays due attention to improved access for humanitarian aid and joint military reports received by its various bodies and depart- targeting of hardline groups. ments for the ultimate goal of fulfilling their mis- But hours later, jets bombed a marketplace in rebel- sion, namely guaranteeing state security and peo- held Idlib in northwestern Syria, killing at least 25 peo- ple’s safety. The ministry receives an average of 850 ple and wounding dozens, according to locals and res- reports daily, among them many false and mali- cue workers who said they believed the planes to be cious ones that mar the ministry’s noble message. Russian. Idlib province has endured escalating strikes by Many reports come from teenagers and children Russian jets in recent months, according to internation- who do it for fun. Yet, the ministry takes all reports al aid workers and residents, destroying scores of hospi- seriously and they are fully investigated. Strict legal tals, bakeries and other infrastructure across rebel-held measures are taken against those behind false territory. reports, who are charged with disturbing public Aleppo was also hit from the air and fighting contin- security and the authorities. ued on the ground. The army attacked rebel-held areas, In the meantime, the ministry has repeatedly both sides said, pushing to maximize gains before the called for abiding by the law and refraining from ceasefire deadline. Ten people were killed by barrel any such act that could disturb the society. The bombs dropped by army helicopters on the besieged Ministry of Interior’s Undersecretary Lt Gen rebel-held east of the city, and jets, either Syrian or Sulaiman Al-Fahd stressed that they take all reports Russian, bombed rebel-held towns in the northern seriously for maintaining public security, according countryside along important insurgent supply routes, to the ministry’s security media department. Any the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights tipoff that might imply even the least threat to the said. Insurgents said they were planning a counter- state is a priority of the supreme leadership of the ALEPPO: Syrian men remove a victim from the rubble of a building following an air strike on the rebel-held offensive. Continued on Page 13 Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of this northern city yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Hajj nears climax for pilgrims Top Saudi cleric to skip annual sermon MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia: Close to After preliminary rituals this week in 1.5 million Muslims from around the Makkah at the Grand Mosque, the pil- world converged on a rocky hill known grims in Saudi Arabia moved east yester- Young pilgrims as Mount Arafat yesterday night to pre- day to the tent city of Mina and then sev- pare for the climax of the annual hajj pil- eral kilometers further to Mount Arafat. transform hajj grimage. The pilgrims will mark today They are following in the footsteps of the with day-long prayers and recitals of the Prophet (PBUH) who performed the MAKKAH: The hajj is no longer an old person’s ritual Holy Quran at the spot in western Saudi same rituals about 1,400 years ago. “It’s as a new generation of youthful Muslim pilgrims has Arabia where Prophet Muhammad marvelous. I’m here closer to God. It’s an transformed both the annual rites and Makkah itself. (PBUH) gave his last hajj sermon. The indescribable feeling,” said an Egyptian “The younger you are, the easier it is,” says Saniah, a numbers are down because of the pilgrim who gave her name only as British pilgrim who, at 25, was on her second trip to absence of 64,000 Iranians over tensions Louza, 45. Islam’s holiest site in Saudi Arabia. “Twelve years ago between their nation and the kingdom. Continued on Page 13 my family and I came for umrah,” the lesser pilgrim- age which can be performed throughout the year, she says, elegantly veiled in green and black. This year, Saniah returned for the hajj because it is a religious obligation and “a radical change of life”, MONTEVIDEO: Syrian native Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a former Guantanamo detainee, rests said the Briton, preferring not to give her last name. in bed as he speaks to his family via a laptop in his apartment on Friday. — AP Saniah is among roughly 1.5 million people from across the world attending the hajj which formally Hunger-striking ex-Gitmo began yesterday. The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, which capable Muslims must perform at least inmate’s health worsens once, marking the spiritual peak of their lives. A can of soft drink in one hand and a cone of MONTEVIDEO: The health of a former added that his daughter is set to be married French fries in the other, Saniah eats with her hus- Guantanamo detainee who resettled in in a week and blamed the United States for band at one of the many modern commercial cen- Uruguay is deteriorating as he continues a the fact that he will not be there. ters dotted around the Grand Mosque in Makkah hunger strike to demand he be allowed to Christian Mirza, Dhiab’s government liai- after performing Friday prayers. “In early genera- leave the South American nation, activists son, characterized his health as “delicate” and officials said Friday. Syrian native Abu and said he could be hospitalized in the tions young people waited to be old before doing Wa’el Dhiab, who was taken in by Uruguay in coming hours. A doctor visited Dhiab on the pilgrimage,” Saniah says. “But the new genera- 2014 along with five other former Friday but did not comment on his situation. tions, we’re more aware of our religious obligations.” Guantanamo prisoners, lay on a bed in his Uruguay’s government said this week that it Smiling, she adds that the long hajj marches and small apartment as he used a laptop to was searching for another country to take prayers under a burning sun “are easier to bear speak softly in Arabic with his wife, Yusra Dhiab. He has threatened to die on his when you’re young”. Dhiab, who is in Ankara, Turkey. hunger strike unless he is allowed to reunite Omar Saghi, author of “Paris-Makkah, Sociology “My health situation is dire and ... if I die it with his family abroad. of the Pilgrimage”, says the hajj is no longer “the will be the responsibility of the United States “I have two options: to reunite with my mystical horizon of an entire life but a rational and Uruguay,” Dhiab said in a message that family in a place we choose, or die here in event” which has become almost routine. Pilgrims walk towards Mount Arafat yesterday to prepare for the climax of the was read afterward outside the apartment Uruguay,” he said in the message read by Continued on Page 13 annual hajj pilgrimage, near the Saudi holy city of Makkah. — AFP by human rights activist Andres Conteris. 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