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Home | 3 Business | 13 Sport | 21 Qatari specialists can IEA sees bear oil Russia faces exile work in more than market as stocks as IAAF decides one private hospital balloon doping fate The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 • 2 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6614 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Father Emir attends Longines Global Tour US-backed Qatar aiming at Syrian alliance seizes town self-sufficiency in near Iraq border BEIRUT: A US-backed Syrian rebel alliance yesterday captured the town of Al Houl in Hasaka date production province, which had been held by Islamic State militants, a spokes- man for the Kurdish fighters, part of the grouping, said. Plan to plant nine types of new palm trees It was the first significant advance against IS by the Demo- DOHA: With plans to plant at least nine families to get natural and traditional food cratic Forces of Syria, which was types of new date palm trees, Qatar aims back on their dining tables and encourage formed last month. to be self-sufficient in date production them to discard junk and risky food. Redur Xelil, who is in the sooner rather than later. The idea behind holding date festivals town, close to the Iraqi border, A pilot project which has already been during the harvest season in the summer said Islamic State fighters had launched with the above objective in mind, months is to highlight the nutritional and fled. Britain-based monitoring is yielding encouraging results, says a sen- medicinal values of dates. Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser group the Syrian Observatory ior environment ministry official. Statistics for the year 2010 suggest that attended the final day of the Longines Global Tour in Al Shaqab in Doha yesterday. The for Human Rights confirmed the The agricultural affairs department in- there were an estimated 145,000 date pro- three-day event sees a host of the best riders competing in 15 rounds all around the world. takeover. charge of the pilot project is part of Qatar’s ducing palm trees in the country covering See also page 19 “The Syrian Democratic Forces Ministry of Environment. total area of 335,000 hectares. took control on Thursday of the Massoud Jarallah Al Marri, head of The Qatar Foundation-funded research village of Al Houl on the IS sup- agricultural research division at the agri- initiative has ensured the trial and use of ply route for arms and equipment cultural affairs department, said that over new technologies to boost date production from Iraq,” SDF spokesman Colo- the next four years date production in the in the country and improve the quality of Israeli troops shoot three nel Talal Ali Sello said. country will go up substantially. the produce. Al Marri said that projects “The streets are filled with bod- The production of dates here will be have been launched to bolster animal fod- ies of jihadists, and other jihadists bolstered so much so that self-sufficiency der production as well, with the aim of are fleeing towards Ash-Shadadi” is achieved, he said. “As of now too, local increasing production and improving the Palestinian youths to death to the southwest, he said. production meets a lot of demand.” quality of the fodder locally produced. “We have cut the supply route” Plans are afoot to tremendously improve It is a new technology of fodder produc- HEBRON, Palestinian Territories: An Israeli father and son were also killed for IS, said Sello. the quality of the locally produced dates as tion in which the use of water for irrigation Three Palestinians were shot dead in in clashes yesterday. “This is the biggest strategic well, the official pointed out. purposes is minimal, he pointed out. Hebron and Ramallah yesterday. Along the Gaza border, 17 people were victory, and it was achieved in Qatar Foundation, according to Al Marri, The new produce will gradually replace A Palestinian was shot dead during hit when Israeli soldiers shot at demonstra- complete coordination with the has funded a QR15m date palm research the fodder which is being currently culti- clashes yesterday with the army in Hebron, tors inside the enclave, emergency services (US-led) international coalition, initiative to help improve the genetic traits vated here. Also, the production technol- Palestinian medics said. there said. Altogether, more than 270 Pal- which carried out intensive (air) of the local varieties of dates. ogy being used is fit for hot climates like Hassan Al Bo, 21, died after being hit in estinians were treated during clashes on strikes,” he said. Al Houl has been Al Marri said that nine new types of date the one which obtains here, said Al Marri. the heart by live ammunition, an official at Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, the focus of a two-week-old cam- palm trees will be planted in the country He said that livestock resources of Al Ahli Hospital said. around 100 with bullet and rubber bullet paign by the alliance to flush out to boost production and as part of plans to the country are also being raised and Soldiers also shot dead a man near the wounds and the rest after inhaling tear gas. Islamic State from northeastern develop Qatar’s own brand of dates. improved. West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, the Violence since the start of October, areas. The GCC states are large producers of For example, livestock are being vac- Palestinian health ministry said. including a wave of Palestinian knife, gun The Democratic Forces of dates and Qatar is fast catching up with its cinated and being given hormonal treat- A statement announced “the death of a and car-ramming attacks, has killed 81 Syria, which joins together the neighbours in date production. ment for diseases. He hinted that these young man, Lafi Yusuf Awad, 22 years old, people on the Palestinian side — includ- US-backed YPG and several Syr- Dates contain essential nutrients and initiatives will ensure that Qatar emerges, from the village of Budrus in the district of ing one Israeli Arab — and 12 Israelis. ian Arab rebel groups, announced are a major source of dietary potassium. sooner rather than later, a regional leader Ramallah, (killed) by a bullet from Israeli The violence was originally focused in and its formation in Octo ber, and A date festival has become a popular in sustainable and improved date produc- forces”. around Jerusalem but has recently shifted launched an offensive against IS annual event in Qatar, with agricultural tion systems and animal husbandry. Earlier, a Palestinian teenager in Hebron to Hebron and its surrounding areas. in Hasaka later that month. development officials insisting that the succumbed to his wounds after being shot event is part of a campaign to convince THE PENINSULA by troops a day earlier. AFP REUTERS/AFP British IS leader Kurdish forces recapture Iraq’s Jihadi John ‘probably’ killed Sinjar town from Islamic State NEAR SINJAR TOWN: Kurd- declared victory in an offen- operation began. But it was still in air strike ish peshmerga forces backed by sive that could provide critical not clear if most IS militants had US air strikes seized the Iraqi momentum in efforts to capture carried out a tactical withdrawal. BEIRUT: The United States tar- town of Sinjar from Islamic State the western provincial capital Kurdish forces, backed by US air geted British Islamic State leader yesterday, a witness said, in one Ramadi, and Mosul in the north, strikes and volunteers from Iraq’s “Jihadi John” in an air attack in of the most significant counter- an Islamic State bastion. “The lib- Yazidi minority entered Sinjar northern Syria which Britain attacks since the militants swept eration of Sinjar will have a big yesterday after cutting it off from said would “strike at the heart through the north last year. impact on liberating Mosul,” Bar- east and west. of Islamic State” if the militant’s “ISIL defeated and on the run,” zani told reporters atop Mount The Kurdistan council said death is confirmed. the Kurdistan regional security Sinjar, overlooking the town. peshmerga forces had entered British Prime Minister David council said in a tweet, using an In the Sinjar area itself, the Sinjar “from all directions” to Cameron said the death of acronym for Islamic State. It said operation severed vital supply begin clearing remaining insur- Mohammed Emwazi, who was the peshmerga had secured Sin- routes used by IS to move fight- gents. A correspondent saw known as Jihadi John after jar’s wheat silo, cement factory, ers, weapons and oil and other hundreds of peshmerga fighters appearing in videos showing the hospital and several other public illicit commodities that provide walking into the town and along a killings of US and British hos- buildings. funding for its self-proclaimed main road without facing immedi- tages, could not yet be confirmed Members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces gather in the town of Sinjar, Iraqi Kurdish regional Presi- caliphate. Civilians appeared to ate resistance. and the Pentagon said it was still Iraq, yesterday. dent Massoud Barzani also have fled the town before the REUTERS assessing the effectiveness of the strike. But a US official said Thurs- day’s attack in the town of Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capital, probably killed Emwazi and the Trump unleashes rant against rival candidate Carson Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, quoted sources in Raqqa as say- WASHINGTON: Republican utive “Carly whatever-the-hell- up and down, ridiculing Carson’s fumed.

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