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  • Paris attacks give rise to conspiracy theories

    As security forces in France and elsewhere in Europe hunt those involved in Friday's coordinated attacks in Paris, conspiracy theories have been taking root online attempting to provide an alternative explanation for what happened. ISIL claimed responsibility for the shootings and suicide bombings at a number of locations across the French capital,.. More

  • US state governors refuse to accept Syrian refugees

    A string of US governors have said they will refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their home states in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks, prompting accusations of Islamophobia. At least 16 state governors from the Republican party said on Sunday and Monday that they would refuse to accept Syrian refugees. The states are: Texas, Georgia,.. More

  • French jets pound Raqqa as G20 pledges new ISIL fight

    French warplanes have hit the ISIL group's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, as world leaders pledged to renew their fight against the armed group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks which killed at least 129 people. In its first air strikes against ISIL since the Paris attacks, 12 warplanes, including 10 fighter bombers, dropped 20 bombs.. More

  • France carries out raids over Paris attacks

    Specialized counterterrorism units have launched coordinated raids across France and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks. Monday's early-morning raids took place in Calais, Toulouse, Paris, Jeumont and Grenoble where police blocked streets and searched houses looking for suspects involved in Friday's attacks, which.. More

  • Israeli army unit storms hospital and kills Palestinian

    An elite Israeli military force that operates undercover stormed the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron and shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Abdullah al-Shalaldeh was killed by five rounds fired early Thursday after 21 members of the elite unit - known as Mustaarabin - barged into the hospital room of his cousin,.. More

  • Israel seeks to jail Palestinians as young as 12

    Israel's Justice Ministry has nearly finished drafting a bill that would allow children as young as 12 to be sentenced to jail reports Haaretz. Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who has labelled Palestinian children as "snakes" is the brainchild of the new bill. The sentences could be handed down to children as young as 12, though the child.. More

  • Israeli forces and settlers besiege Hebron

    Israeli troops raided the offices of an activist group that monitors human rights violations by Israeli military forces and Jewish settlers, and took over homes in neighboring districts, a rights group and residents told Al Jazeera. "The area is besieged," Issa Amro, coordinator of Youth Against Settlements in the Old City of Hebron, told.. More

  • Many killed and injured in air strikes on Syria's Douma

    At least 10 people, including two children, have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on a market in a Damascus suburb. Baraa, a Syrian activist in Douma, told Al Jazeera on Friday that Russian air strikes had hit the Kouatly market in Douma, just outside of the capital. "For the past half-an-hour, we have been hearing warplanes roaming.. More

  • Thousands of Yemeni families displaced by Cyclone Chapala

    More than three thousand families in Yemen have been internally displaced after Cyclone Chapala pounded the country’s southern Hadhramaut province late Monday, according to a Yemeni emergency official. The official, who preferred anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that numerous families in the province had to flee their homes due to severe winds.. More

  • Erdogan hails AK party poll win as 'vote for stability'

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed his party's election victory as a vote for "unity and integrity" after the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK party) took back a majority in parliament. With almost all of the ballots counted early on Monday, Erdogan's party won 49.4 percent of the vote - enough for a majority of 316.. More

  • Egyptian army again floods Gaza tunnels

    For the second time in recent weeks, Egyptian authorities flooded the area along the border with Gaza with water to destroy underground tunnels between Sinai and the Palestinian territory. A Palestinian source told Anadolu Agency that many tunnels were flooded with sea water in six areas in southern Gaza. The Egyptian army had built large pipelines.. More

  • Egypt says Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai

    A Russian plane carrying more than 200 people has crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian prime minister's office. A "Russian civilian plane ... crashed in the central Sinai," the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said in a statement on Saturday. Egyptian search and rescue teams have found the site of the crashed.. More

  • State of emergency renewed in Egypt's N.Sinai

    Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday renewed an ongoing state of emergency in certain parts of the northern Sinai Peninsula for an additional three months. Al-Sisi’s decree also included the imposition of a nighttime curfew in certain parts of the restive peninsula. In October of last year, following a militant attack that killed.. More

  • UN: Europe fails to properly handle Syrian refugee crisis

    The European Union has failed to deal with the humanitarian crisis faced by Syrian refugees, a high-level UN official said Tuesday. At an event held by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the refugee crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the world must take more responsibility because a refugee crisis.. More

  • Mass rallies in Hebron as Israel withholds bodies

    Dozens of Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron during protests against the Israeli government's refusal to return the bodies of Palestinians killed during alleged attacks. Thousands of Palestinians protested in the city and the surrounding villages in a 'Rally of Rage' called for by political factions. T.. More