Sandstorms disrupt flights to and from Kuwait

Photo showing a Kuwait Airways plane taxiing in Kuwait city airport. (Social media)
Updated 17 June 2018
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Sandstorms disrupt flights to and from Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti Interior Ministry’s information center called on drivers in the country to take extra care due to bad visibility in the country. The center said in a statement that due to the dust storm that has hit Kuwait in the last few hours, road and air traffic has been affected in the country.
Earlier, Kuwait has halted flights arrivals into the country, some of those flights were diverted to Bahrain and Dammam in Saudi Arabia.


Syria army enters Al-Hol camp holding relatives of miltants

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Syria army enters Al-Hol camp holding relatives of miltants

  • Al-Hol houses around 24,000 people, including 15,000 Syrians and about 6,300 foreign women and children of 42 nationalities
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria: Syria’s army on Wednesday entered the country’s vast Al-Hol detention camp that houses relatives of suspected Daesh militants, from which Kurdish forces withdrew the day before, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.
The correspondent saw a large number of soldiers open the camp’s metal gate and enter. Al-Hol houses around 24,000 people, including 15,000 Syrians and about 6,300 foreign women and children of 42 nationalities.