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Saturday, September 9, 2017 Issue No. 7499 Today’s Weather 200 Fils Max Min www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh 8P 02 41°C 31°C Arab quartet rules out preconditions for talks Bloc sore over Kuwait Amir’s statement on “military intervention” Riyadh The tough talk follows US very quickly,” he said. “I think it’s military option has not been and audi Arabia, Bahrain, the United President Donald Trump’s statement something that’s going to get solved will not be considered” under any Arab Emirates and Egypt yesterday in Washington on Thursday that fairly easily.” circumstances. Smaintained a tough stance rejecting he will be willing to mediate to end But in a strongly worded joint “The crisis with Qatar is not a preconditions by Qatar for a dialogue the Gulf crisis after a meeting with statement early Friday, the Saudi-led dispute confined to the Gulf, but in on the implementation of the Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al bloc showed no signs of backing down fact it extends to numerous Arab and 13 demands put forward by Sabah, the Kuwaiti Amir as it questioned the Kuwaiti Amir’s Islamic countries that have declared the quartet even after US mediating to end the statement that Qatar would be willing their stance regarding Qatar’s President Donald Trump dispute with Qatar. to accept their 13 demands. interference in domestic affairs and x offered to help resolve the At a joint news “Dialogue on the implementation support for terrorism”, the quartet crisis. conference in of the 13 demands should not be said. Thai delegation to Washington with preceded by any conditions,” they said They also criticised Qatari Foreign visit Bahrain today the Kuwait Amir in the joint statement. Minister Shaikh Mohammad bin on Thursday, Trump The demands include shutting Abdul Rahman Al Thani for comments Manama announced his readiness Doha-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, he made after the meeting between Thai delegation, for mediation in the closing a Turkish military base in Trump and the Kuwaiti Amir. headed by Chairman three-month-old crisis. the emirate and downgrading Qatari Meanwhile, Shaikh Mohammad Aof Bahrain-Thailand “I would be willing diplomatic ties with Iran. rejected the Saudi-led bloc’s 13 parliamentary Friendship to be the mediator,” The bloc also voiced “regret” about demands, saying they “attacked the Group MP Chusak Trump told reporters. the Kuwaiti ruler’s statement “on sovereignty” of his country. Limsakul, will visit “I would be the success of mediation “Setting preconditions for dialogue Bahrain today at willing to do in stopping military confirms Qatar’s lack of seriousness an invitation by so, and I think intervention”. in dialogue, combating and financing Representatives you’d have Instead, the four Arab terrorism and interfering in the Council Speaker a deal states stressed in their internal affairs of countries,” the bloc Ahmed bin Ibrahim worked out joint statement that “the said in its statement. -AFP Al Mulla. Hot weather today Saudi King to visit Manama he Met White House Directorate atT the Ministry of Washington Trump, the White House Transportation ing Salman of said yesterday. The two and Telecom Saudi Arabia leaders held a telephone forecast a hot Kwill make an conversation in which they weather but official visit to discussed how to advance humid at times Washington shared goals such as with some clouds early next year strengthening security and today. Variable winds US President Donald Trump (L) for talks with prosperity in the Middle will range from 5 to and Kuwait’s Amir Sheikh Sabah Al President East, the White House said 10 knots. Ahmad Al Sabah arrive for a press Donald in a statement.- AFP conference in Washington

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Moscow But a spokesman for the Tajik security services, ussia claimed yesterday to have killed several top speaking to AFP, suggested that “this time around” limit highways is Rcommanders of the Islamic State group in an air he might have been killed. @ strike in Syria, including the US-trained “minister of “We’re checking the information,” he said. war” who has a $3 million bounty on his head. In 2016, the United States offered a $3 million “As a result of a precision air strike of the Russian bounty for information leading to Khalimov’s air forces in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, a location or arrest. command post, communication centre and some 40 Russia’s SU warplanes dropped “bunker buster” ISIS fighters have been killed,” the Russian defence bombs on the fighters as they were meeting near ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook. Deir Ezzor to discuss how to respond to the advance “According to confirmed data, among the killed of the Syrian army, Moscow said. national fightershighways are four influential field commanders Backed by Russia, Syrian troopsis on Tuesday broke including Deir Ezzor emir Abu Mohammed through a years-long siege imposed by IS militants al-Shimali,” the ministry said. on tens of thousands of civilians in Deir Ezzor. Gulmurod Khalimov, who is known as the IS The Times reported in April that Khalimov, group’s minister of war and the highest-ranking described as the highest-ranking IS commander in defector from ex-Soviet Tajikistan, suffered a “fatal Mosul, had been killed in an airstrike. injury,” it added. The trained sniper and former colonel, he was Reports of Khalimov’s death have surfaced before, apparently wounded in 2015 but survived. and the Tajik interior ministry said it could not He headed the Tajik interior ministry’s special immediately confirm the claim. “We are working forces unit and received American training before Gulmurod Khalimov (file) with our Russian colleagues to obtain reliable joining IS in 2015, pledging allegiance to the jihadist information,” a spokesman said. group in a video released in May 2015. (AFP)

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