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  • Brutality of Israel police: arrest Muslim worshippers

    Israeli police on Thursday detained two Muslim worshipers near East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In a statement, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the two worshippers had been detained following a skirmish between Palestinians and Jewish settlers. No injuries were reported. Scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into the flashpoint.. More

  • Fourteen refugees killed by train in Macedonia

    Fourteen refugees were hit by a train and killed in central Macedonia late on Thursday as they walked through a canyon along an increasingly well-trodden Balkan route for migrants trying to reach western Europe. The accident happened at around 10.30 p.m. (2030 GMT) near the central city of Veles. Rescue efforts were hampered by difficult terrain, with.. More

  • Syrian opposition claim advances in Damascus

    Syrian opposition forces are claiming to have seized control of a number of security points from Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the eastern part of the capital Damascus. Syria Mubasher News Network told on Wednesday that the Ahrar al-Sham opposition group took control of security points in Hatitat al-Jarash hub near Bala town as well as many locations.. More

  • EU to hold emergency summit as migrant crisis escalates

    European Union leaders are due to hold an emergency summit on ways to stem the number of migrants risking their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean. The leaders, who decided last year to halt the rescue of migrants, will vote to reverse their decision on Thursday after nearly 2,000 people died at sea this year. Public outrage over the deaths peaked.. More

  • Egypt court sentences Mursi to 20 years in prison

    An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Mohamed Morsi to 20 year in jail on ‘violence-related’ charges. Tuesday's verdict was the first against Morsi since his ouster and imprisonment by the army in mid-2013. Since then, he has been slapped with numerous ‘criminal’ charges, which he and his supporters insist.. More

  • Thousands of Yemeni troops declare support for Hadi

    The commander of the 1st Military Zone based in Yemen's southern province of Hadhramaut on Sunday announced support for the legitimacy of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a military source said. Brigadier General Abdulrahman al-Halily of the First Military District announced today his support for constitutional legitimacy as represented by President.. More

  • Former Yemeni leader asks Gulf states for safe exit

    Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has sent messages to Arab Gulf states, asking for a safe exit for himself and his family, sources told Al Jazeera. Saleh, who was forced to step down in 2012 after a wave of protests against his rule, is said to be backing Houthi rebels who have seized the capital Sanaa and are battling forces loyal to embattled.. More

  • 400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya

    About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year. The boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, flipped about 24 hours after leaving the Libyan coast, according to some of the 150 survivors.. More

  • Bombings across Baghdad kill at least 20

    A series of car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 20 people and wounded scores more, security sources said. At least five separate explosions on Tuesday hit targets across the city including Yarmouk hospital in western Baghdad, where four people died . Other bombs were detonated near shops in Waziriyah in the north of the.. More

  • Turkey recalls Vatican envoy over Pope genocide comment

    Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the Vatican for consultations in an escalating diplomatic row over Pope Francis' use of the word "genocide" to describe the massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. "Our ambassador to the Vatican Mr Mehmet Pacaci is being recalled back to Turkey for consultations," the.. More

  • Deadly attacks hit Egypt's North Sinai

    A suicide car bomb targeting a police station in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula has killed six people and wounded 44 others, police and medics say. Sunday's bombing came hours after a roadside blast targeted an army vehicle killing six soldiers and wounding two in the peninsula, where security forces are battling an insurgency. One of the two killed.. More

  • Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to death

    An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and 13 other senior members of the group to death for “inciting chaos and violence”, a judge said in a televised session on Saturday. The court also sentenced U.S-Egyptian citizen Mohamed Soltan to life in jail for supporting the group and transmitting false.. More

  • Deaths as Houthi rebels in Yemen attack Saudi border

    Houthi rebels in Yemen have fired a mortar round at a Saudi Arabian border post, killing three Saudi officers and wounding two others, Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says. A statement from the ministry on Saturday said that the incident took place the previous day in the Saudi border province of Najran. The Saudi forces responded with gunfire,.. More

  • ISIL frees more than 200 Yazidi captives

    The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has released more than 200 captives - mainly elderly and children belonging to the Yazidi community - held for eight months in captivity in the group’s stronghold, Mosul. Hiwa Abdullah, a Peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the handover of prisoners to Kurdish.. More

  • Thai Muslims slain in south ‘not linked to insurgency’

    Four Muslim men killed by Thai security forces in a raid last month had no links to a separatist insurgency plaguing the country’s south, according to a report released by an investigation committee Tuesday. The military had said the March 25 raid was launched after informers warned of an impending attack on To Chud village, Pattani province,.. More