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  • Hungary seals off southern border to refugees

    Hungary has declared its southern border with Croatia closed to what it calls "illegal migrants", diverting them into Slovenia in a measure of Europe's disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its shores in flight from war and poverty. A last train drew up at the border, and about 2,000 refugees disembarked for the short, muddy.. More

  • Syria: Russian airstrikes kill 56 civilians Thursday

    Russian airstrikes on opposition-held areas killed 56 civilians Thursday in Homs province, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The sources said that 35 people were killed in al-Ghanto town, 15 in Teir Maalah town and six others in Talbiseh city. The sources added that opposition forces managed to repel Syrian regime forces in Homs province’s.. More

  • Palestinian killed in Gaza by Israeli army

    A Palestinian died after being shot by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip Friday, the enclave's health ministry said, the latest such incident in more than two weeks of clashes and attacks. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that Abdul Qadir Farhat, 19, died “after he was shot directly in the head by the military in clashes close to.. More

  • Palestinians killed after alleged Hebron stabbings

    Three Palestinians have been shot dead in separate attacks after they allegedly tried to stab Israelis in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the latest incidents in a wave of violence that has escalated this month. In Hebron, a Jewish settler killed a Palestinian man early on Saturday after the Palestinian allegedly tried to stab him. Israeli.. More

  • Palestinians killed after alleged Hebron stabbings

    Three Palestinians have been shot dead in separate attacks after they allegedly tried to stab Israelis in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the latest incidents in a wave of violence that has escalated this month. In Hebron, a Jewish settler killed a Palestinian man early on Saturday after the Palestinian allegedly tried to stab him. Israeli.. More

  • Dutch board says Russian-made missile downed MH17

    Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was hit and downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air BUK missile over eastern Ukraine last year, the Dutch Safety Board said. "Flight MH17 crashed as a result of the detonation of a warhead outside the airplane against the left-hand side of the cockpit," the chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, Tjibbe Joustra,.. More

  • Arab coalition mops up Houthi pockets in Yemen's Marib

    Forces loyal to the Arab coalition have been trying to consolidate power over the central province of Marib, east of the capital, in an apparent bid to advance on Sanaa, which remains under the control of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The governor of Marib told Al Jazeera on Monday that forces allied to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Gulf coalition.. More

  • Palestinian child stomped on, left to bleed to death

    Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians as a series of alleged stabbing attacks continued in Jerusalem on Monday. Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said that a Palestinian young man was shot dead after allegedly attacking and injuring an Israeli soldier inside a bus. According to Israeli police, the attack occurred after a Palestinian.. More

  • Pregnant Palestinian and child die in Israeli air raid

    A Palestinian woman who was five-months pregnant and her three-year-old daughter have been killed in an Israeli air strike east of Gaza City. Medical sources in the besieged territory said 30-year-old Noor Hassan and her daughter Shahd died when their house collapsed following an Israeli air strike on a Hamas military training camp near their home. Three.. More

  • Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian teens in Gaza

    Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip during confrontations, less than 24 hours after six people were shot dead while protesting along the border with Israel. The Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday said 13-year-old Marwan Barbakh and 15-year-old Omar Othman were shot with live ammunition in eastern Khan.. More

  • Ankara peace rally rocked by deadly explosions

    1Two explosions at a road junction in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 86 people and injured nearly 200 others, the country's health minister said. The first blast occurred at around 10:00am (0700 GMT), with the second following shortly after, during a peace rally organized by several leftist groups, including the pro-Kurdish.. More

  • Russian warships join Syria war with rocket attacks

    Russian warships in the Caspian Sea have launched rockets at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria which hit their targets, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a joint television appearance. Russian efforts "will be synchronized with the actions of the Syrian army on the ground and.. More

  • Israeli army shoots dead Palestinian child in West Bank

    The Israeli army has shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian during clashes at a refugee camp near Bethlehem, police and emergency services said. Israel restricts Palestinians from entering Old City Abdel Rahman Abdullah was struck in the chest by Israeli fire at the Aida refugee camp on Monday, the sources said. He is the second Palestinian teenager.. More

  • NATO warns Russia after jet strays into Turkey

    NATO has condemned Russian incursions into Turkish airspace as an "extreme danger" and demanded that Moscow halt all attacks against the Syrian opposition and civilians. The alliance summoned the ambassadors of its 28 member states on Monday for an emergency meeting to respond to what Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called "unacceptable.. More

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