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  • Israel PM approves 300 settler homes in occupied W Bank

    The Israeli government has announced the "immediate construction" of some 300 new units at Beit El in the occupied West Bank as two illegally constructed buildings were demolished in the same area after a court order. "After consultations in the prime minister's office, the immediate construction of 300 homes in Beit El has been authorized,&qu.. More

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  • Syria's Assad admits army struggling for manpower

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has pledged to win his country's long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops are struggling to maintain control over territory amid lack of manpower. In a televised speech on Sunday before local dignitaries in Damascus, Assad tried to justify why the Syrian army has given up some areas of Syria, including.. More

  • NATO calls emergency meeting after Turkey's request

    Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, has called an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss security at the request of Turkey after last week's suicide bombing there and ongoing Turkish security operations on two fronts. NATO said in a statement on Sunday that the North Atlantic Council, which includes the ambassadors of all 28 NATO allies, would.. More

  • Arab coalition declares pause in Yemen campaign

    Arab coalition forces have announced a five-day humanitarian pause in their military campaign against Houthi fighters in Yemen, according to Saudi state news agency SPA. The suspension of air strikes - which will take effect at 11:59pm local time on Sunday - will allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Arabian Peninsula country, SPA said on.. More

  • Turkey intensifies campaigns in Iraq and Syria

    Turkey has launched more air raids against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and against Kurdish fighters in Iraq. Saturday's raids are the latest in a campaign that began early on Friday in response to a suicide bombing at a rally in the southern Turkish city of Suruc earlier in the week that killed dozens of Kurdish activists. Turke.. More

  • Young Palestinian man killed by Israeli army in West Bank

    A young Palestinian man was killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank on Wednesday, a medical source told Anadolu Agency. The source at Khalil Sulaiman Hospital in Jenin said that Mohamed Alawna, 21, was pronounced dead at the hospital as a result of a gunshot wound to the chest. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Alawna was shot after clashes.. More

  • NATO 'friendly fire' incident kills Afghan troops

    At least eight Afghan soldiers have been killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan, according to security officials, in the latest "friendly fire" incident involving foreign coalition forces. Provincial army commander Abdul Razaq said the strike took place on Monday morning in Logar province's district of Baraki Barak, about 50km.. More

  • UN endorses Iran nuclear agreement

    The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution that will clear a path for international sanctions crippling Iran's economy to be lifted. Representatives of all 15 countries on the Security Council voted on Monday by raising their hands. "The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously," Murray McCully, foreign minister of.. More

  • Libya draft peace accord agreed

    Some of Libya's warring factions have agreed on a framework for a peace deal following months of talks in Morocco, the United Nations says. Representatives of municipal councils and the UN-backed government based in Tobruk initialed a draft deal stipulating a transitional period for the establishment of a democratic state in the country. But a key.. More

  • Israel frees Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike

    Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail for 55 days, has been released. Adnan, who launched an indefinite hunger strike on April 6, had been placed under medical supervision at a clinic in Israel's Ramla prison earlier this month. He had been under "administrative detention" - a practice in which.. More

  • 'Srebrenica is not over', say Bosnians in Istanbul

    The 1995 Srebrenica massacre will never be truly over so long as its perpetrators evade justice, Bosniaks in Istanbul believe. Anadolu Agency spoke to Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) living in Turkey to hear their reflections over the mass murder on its 20th anniversary. Two decades ago in July, towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, a town called Srebrenica.. More

  • UN official warns of 'explosion of violence' in Burundi

    The UN human rights chief has warned that an explosion of violence is close at hand in Burundi, sparked by the president's decision to seek a third term and a crackdown by security forces and the youth wing of his ruling party responsible for dozens of recent killings. Zeid Raad al-Hussein told the UN Security Council that "the risk to human life,.. More

  • Iraq closes key bridge used by families fleeing Anbar

    Iraqi authorities have shut down a bridge between Anbar and Baghdad used by displaced people. Aid agencies said the Bzebiz bridge between the town of Amariyat al-Fallujah and the capital was shut down onWednesday, leaving dozens of families stranded on the Anbar side and prompting demands from provincial officials to reopen the crossing. Al Jazeera's.. More

  • Yemen government tells UN it is ready for ceasefire

    Yemen's exiled government has told the UN that it is ready for a temporary ceasefire to end nearly three months of fighting provided key "guarantees" are met, a spokesman has said. "The Yemeni authorities have informed the secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon of its agreement to implement a truce in the coming days,".. More