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Palestinian Factions Sign Declaration to End Divisions after Talks in China

FILE PHOTO: Tourists visit the Forbidden City in central Beijing, China. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tourists visit the Forbidden City in central Beijing, China. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo/File Photo
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Palestinian Factions Sign Declaration to End Divisions after Talks in China

FILE PHOTO: Tourists visit the Forbidden City in central Beijing, China. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tourists visit the Forbidden City in central Beijing, China. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo/File Photo

Various Palestinian factions have agreed to end their divisions and strengthen Palestinian unity by signing the Beijing Declaration on Tuesday morning in China, according to Chinese state media.
The declaration was signed at the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among the factions held in Beijing from July 21-23, state broadcaster CCTV said.
A total of 14 Palestinian factions including the leaders of rival groups Fatah and Hamas also met with the media, with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi present, CGTN said in a social media post, according to Reuters.
Rival factions Hamas and Fatah met in China in April to discuss reconciliation efforts to end around 17 years of disputes.

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Iraq-US Resume Dialogue on Future of International Coalition

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds discussions with his Iraqi counterpart, Thabet Al-Abbasi, in Washington last year (Pentagon)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds discussions with his Iraqi counterpart, Thabet Al-Abbasi, in Washington last year (Pentagon)
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Iraq-US Resume Dialogue on Future of International Coalition

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds discussions with his Iraqi counterpart, Thabet Al-Abbasi, in Washington last year (Pentagon)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds discussions with his Iraqi counterpart, Thabet Al-Abbasi, in Washington last year (Pentagon)

 

A high-level Iraqi delegation and US officials began in Washington on Monday a new round of joint security dialogue on the withdrawal of the military international coalition from Iraq.
An official Iraqi source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that the Iraqi team headed by Defense Minister Thabet Al-Abbasi and Iraqi military commanders was in Washington to discuss the presence of the international coalition forces in the country.
“The dialogue aims to start building a bilateral relationship between Iraq and the United States,” the sources said, noting that the visit comes after months of negotiations between the joint Higher Military Commission.
For her part, US Ambassador to Baghdad Alina Romanowski said on X that security officials from the United States and Iraq will discuss the future of the international coalition’s mission and strengthen bilateral security cooperation.
US-Iraqi negotiations resumed in February following Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shiaa Al-Sudani’s request to end the mission of the international coalition that was created to fight ISIS in June 2014.
Iraqi politician Bahaa Al-Araji, former deputy prime minister, said in a televised interview last week that Al-Sudani had agreed with the American side on the date for the complete withdrawal of international coalition forces from Iraq.
Meanwhile, a number of Iraqi armed factions loyal to Iran declared the end of the truce that they had concluded with Washington on behalf of the government through mediation adopted by Sudani.
The armed factions bombed the Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq with two drones without causing any losses, while both the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades and the Loyal Ansar Allah Movement announced the end of the truce with the US side, as a result of what they considered to be American procrastination regarding the withdrawal from Iraq.