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  • US Muslims condemn world's silence on 'Rabaa' massacres

    Muslim groups in the U.S. have condemned the West’s complacency towards the Egyptian regime on the second anniversary of the “Rabaa” massacres. On Aug. 14, 2013, Egyptian security forces opened fire on two protest camps in Cairo, killing at least 1,150 people, according to Human Rights Watch. The protest camps in Cairo’s Rabaa.. More

  • '1,000 Europe-bound migrants per day' being saved at sea

    About 237,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe by sea so far in 2015, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday. "With rescues at sea occurring at a rate of over 1,000 migrants a day this summer off Italy and Greece, the number of arrivals has already surpassed the total arrivals in 2014," the organization’.. More

  • Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike falls into coma

    Mohammed Allan, a Palestinian prisoner detained in an Israeli prison, fell into a coma two months after beginning a hunger strike in protest of his detention, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Friday. The group said Allan's health had seriously deteriorated, noting that he fell into a coma after suffering from tremors on Thursday.. More

  • Rabaa survivors recount Egypt massacre

    Aisha Mohamed still remembers what happened two years ago when hundreds of protesters were killed by security forces in eastern Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square. "Though two years have passed, I still remember what happened as if it took place yesterday," Mohamed told Anadolu Agency on Friday. Mohamed recalls that she was sleeping inside.. More

  • Scores killed in Syria ahead of Iranian FM's visit

    Scores of people have been killed and many more injured in army and rebel attacks in different locations in Syria, activists said, hours before a visit to the Syrian capital by Iran's foreign minister. Army artillery shelling and air strikes on Wednesday targeting Douma, 10km from central Damascus, killed at least 37 people, including women and children,.. More

  • Death toll soars after huge blasts hit China's Tianjin

    Explosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin have killed at least 44 people, including at least a dozen firefighters, and injured nearly 400 and sent shockwaves through the city. Chinese state news said the blasts started late on Wednesday after a container of "hazardous material" exploded.. More

  • Erdogan vows to continue offensive until PKK's end

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that Turkey would press on with a military offensive against fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) "until not one terrorist remains". The statement came on Tuesday as the military said Turkey carried out air strikes on 17 PKK targets in the southeastern province of Hakkari, ramping.. More

  • Yemen's loyalist forces push Houthi rebels from Abyan

    Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government have announced the recapture of Abyan province in a southern offensive that has seen key gains against the Houthi rebels. Military officials who back President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Tuesday that loyalist forces have retaken Loder, the last town in Abyan to fall from Houthi hands. "Abyan.. More

  • Iraq PM bids to end vice president and deputy PM roles

    Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has issued a decree proposing the cancellation of the country's deputy president positions and deputy PM role. Abbadi held a meeting on Friday evening with a number of experts and advisers to discuss the administrative and financial reforms in his new bid to tackle corruption in the country. A statement on.. More

  • Duma attack: 'Israeli settlers are burning everything'

    The father of the Palestinian 18-month-old baby boy who died in last week's settler arson attack in the occupied West Bank has also died from his wounds. Saad Dawabsheh, the father of Ali, died early on Saturday, his brother told Al Jazeera. Palestinians family members and relatives carried the body Dawabsha during his funeral on Saturday afternoon.. More

  • Deaths reported amid warplane crash in Syria

    Government air raids in a northwestern town in Syria and a subsequent crash of a government warplane have killed more than 20 people, according to a monitoring group. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear how many of the dead were from the crash at a residential area in Ariha, in Idlib province, and.. More

  • Israel arrests Jewish activist for 'nationalist crimes'

    A right-wing Jewish activist has been arrested after a Palestinian baby died in a West Bank firebombing, as police investigated online threats against Israel's president for condemning "Jewish terrorism". The domestic intelligence service named the activist as Meir Ettinger, a grandson of Meir Kahane, a rabbi who founded the anti-Arab movement.. More

  • Turkish military denies targeting civilians in Iraq

    Turkey's military has denied allegations that it hit civilians in the village of Zargala in northern Iraq during air strikes, saying that the target was a shelter for Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters. Turkey launched the offensive against PKK about a week ago, which effectively ended the fragile peace talks between the PKK and the Ankara government,.. More

  • Kerry arrives in Qatar to meet with Gulf leaders

    John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has arrived in Doha to meet with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to reassure them over last month's nuclear deal between world powers and Iran. Foreign ministers of the GCC held a preparatory meeting in the Qatari capital Doha on Sunday ahead of Kerry's arrival. Kerry said he would be travelling.. More

  • Palestinians bury baby killed in West Bank arson attack

    Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of the 18-month old Palestinian baby, killed in an arson attack in the occupied West Bank, as Palestinian leaders condemned Israel's policy on settlements and dubbed the attack as "war crimes". Family members buried Ali Saad Dawabsheh on Friday afternoon, as his four-year-old brother and their.. More