David Abrams @davidabrams514

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David Abrams @davidabrams514

8 years ago

Riyad al-Malki, Palestinian foreign minister, on Wednesday accused the US of "threatening" member countries of the UN General Assembly in advance of the vote.

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8 years ago

Haley also said on Twitter "the US will be taking names" of countries that vote in favour of the resolution.

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8 years ago

Trump's comments came after Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, sent threatening letters to UN member states, urging them to vote against the motion.

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8 years ago

The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency session on Thursday to vote on the controversial US decision.

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"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care," Reuters news agency quoted Trump as saying.

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8 years ago

Trump said at the White House on Wednesday the US would be "watching those votes" in the General Assembly.

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8 years ago

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft UN resolution condemning the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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8 years ago

Trump threatens to cut aid over Jerusalem vote at UN

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8 years ago

The Imam Zaman Mosque in the city's Dashti Barch area was half full, with about 300-400 worshippers attending Friday prayers.

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8 years ago

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shia mosque in Kabul, killing 56 people and wounding 55 others in an assault claimed by ISIL.

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8 years ago

Habib Wardak, a security analyst, told Al Jazeera that both the Taliban and ISIL "are trying to portray that they have the ability to inflict damage not just to the Afghan security forces and the Aghan government, but also to its international counterparts

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8 years ago

"It's a very difficult task for these forces who are taking punishing casualties in the continuing fight."

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8 years ago

"It's a big challenge for the Afghan security forces as they try and grapple back territory from the Taliban who control or contest almost 40 percent of the country," she added.

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8 years ago

The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in," Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said.

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8 years ago

The spate of deadly attacks underscores deteriorating security across Afghanistan as the resurgent Taliban step up their attacks on security installations with devastating effect and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group continue to targ

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8 years ago

Earlier on Saturday, two rockets landed near the international military headquarters in Kabul, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

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8 years ago

NATO's Resolute Support mission tweeted that the latest incident was an "attack on the future" of Afghanistan and its security forces.

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8 years ago

Dawlat Waziri, defence ministry spokesman, said the suicide bomber targeted a minibus carrying the trainees right in front of a military academy in the Charrahi Qambar area of Kabul.

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8 years ago

In an email to journalists, the Taliban said it was responsible for the ambush on the army cadets. The group has been involved in four other attacks on police and military bases this week