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  • Tens of thousands flee Russian airstrikes in Syria

    Tens of thousands of Syrians are fleeing Russian airstrikes as warplanes target civilian areas. At the Atmeh refugee camp on the Syrian-Turkish an increasing number of refugees from Hama, Homs, Idlib and Aleppo provinces have arrived since Russia began airstrikes on Sept. 30. “Russian planes have been bombarding residential areas, civilians.. More

  • 260 killed as powerful quake rocks Pakistan, Afghanistan

    Scores of people were killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan -- mostly in the former’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province -- after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Asia on Monday afternoon (9:32 GMT). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake’s epicenter was 45 kilometers south-southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan, near the border.. More

  • HRW accuses Russia of killing civilians in Syria

    Russian airstrikes in Syria are reported to have killed dozens of civilians, a rights group has said, adding that the attacks apparently constitute war crimes. A series of Russian airstrikes in the city of Homs in western Syria on Oct. 15 killed at least 59 civilians including 33 children, the Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Sunday -- citing.. More

  • More than 40 bodies found off coast of western Libya

    Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of at least 40 people -- thought to be drowned migrants -- off the shore of western Libya, local sources said Sunday. Mahmoud al-Misrati, a spokesman for the Libyan Red Crescent, told Anadolu Agency that a total of 40 bodies had been recovered off the shores of the coastal cities of Zliten, Alkhams and Alkarboli. Accor.. More

  • Scores killed by air strikes in northern Syria

    Syrian regime and Russian jets have been heavily bombarding towns in Idlib province, as fighting rages between regime forces and opposition fighters in several other provinces, Al Jazeera has learned. At least 44 people, including six children, were killed in 24 hours due to Russian and Syrian air strikes across the country, the Syrian Network for.. More

  • Palestinian shot dead after alleged stabbing

    A Palestinian has been shot and killed after he and another Palestinian allegedly stabbed an Israeli at a bus stop west of Jerusalem. Israeli police said on Thursday that two suspects attempted to get on a children's school bus in Beit Shemesh, a majority ultra-orthodox area. After they were asked why they were doing so, they attempted to stab an Israeli.. More

  • Palestinian teenage relatives killed by Israeli forces

    Two teenagers from the same family were among five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, while an Israeli settler died from wounds he suffered after he was run over by a vehicle. The unrest on Tuesday brought the death toll to 50 Palestinians and nine Israelis since the start of October. The two Palestinian relatives were shot dead on Tuesday evening.. More

  • Russian airstrikes kill 42 in Syria’s Latakia

    Forty-two people were killed and dozens others injured late Monday when Russian aircraft targeted an opposition-held area in the countryside of Latakia province, Syrian Civil Defense officials told Anadolu Agency. Russian warplanes targeted villages in Jabal al-Akrad area (Kurds Mountain) in the eastern countryside of Latakia, officials added. Last.. More

  • Israel arrests Hamas leader in West Bank raid

    Israeli security forces have arrested Hassan Yusef, one of Hamas' top figures in the occupied West Bank, in an overnight raid near Ramallah, the Israeli army said. Speaking to Al Jazeera from the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesman Ghazi al-Hamad said Yusef’s arrest was "part Israel's oppression of Palestinians". "It's designed to keep.. More

  • Syrian military offensive 'displaces thousands'

    The Syrian regime's military offensive on the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo has displaced thousands in recent days, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says. A spokeswoman for the UNOCHA said on Monday that the fighting had displaced 35,000 people from Hader and Zerbeh on the southwestern outskirts of the city in the past.. More

  • Eritrean mistaken for Palestinian shot dead in Israel

    An Eritrean man has died after he was shot and beaten by a mob after he was mistaken for an attacker during a raid in southern Israel, Israeli police say. The attack on Sunday night at a bus station in the city of Beersheba saw a Palestinian man armed with an M-16 rifle and a knife kill an Israeli soldier and wound about 10 other people. The attacker.. More

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters rally across US

    Thousands of people marched across the U.S. in support of Palestinians, and against Israeli use of force in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli tensions witnessed in New York and Chicago on Sunday. "Free Palestine," the protesters chanted as they waved a massive Palestinian flag making their way down Manhattan to Times Square, where the crowd.. More

  • Israeli Zionists plant knife next to body of Palestinian boy

    A video that has been shared on Facebook by Youth Against Settlements shows the moments after an Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian teenager in Hebron, Saturday. At 12 seconds into the video, one soldier hands off an object to another soldier, who appears to drop it by the body. The video has raised suspicions that the soldiers are planting a.. More

  • Thousands protest Israel in London

    Thousands of people gathered in front of Israel's London embassy Saturday to protest the escalating violence in the Palestinian territories and violations in holy sites in East Jerusalem. Various groups, namely Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Muslim Association of Britain and Stop the War Coalition, organized the three-hour rally.. More

  • Russian strike 'kills 48 from single family' in Syria

    A suspected Russian air strike on a home in the countryside near the central city of Homs has killed 48 people from a single family, Syrian activists said. The bomb shelter where the family was hiding was hit by a rocket in the western city of Homs, activists told Al Jazeera on Sunday. Moscow has been launching air strikes in the area in addition.. More