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  • Deaths as Syrian forces fire on protesters

    Syrian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters in the city of Sanamin near Daraa, killing at least 20 people, according to one witness. "There are more than 20 martyrs....they [security forces] opened fire haphazardly," the witness told Al Jazeera. Rula Amin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Damascus, said Syrian forces.. More

  • NATO to police Libya no-fly zone

    NATO countries have agreed to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya "to protect civilians" against Muammar Gaddafi's forces, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters. During a press conference in Brussels on Thursday, Rasmussen said the military alliance's mandate did not go beyond the no-fly zone, but that NATO could act in self-defense. H.. More

  • Protest camp set up in Jordan capital

    Hundreds of Jordanians have set up a protest camp in a main square in the capital to press demands for the ouster of the prime minister and wider public freedoms. The 500 protesters appeared to be mostly university students or unemployed graduates unaffiliated with any political party. Many said they met through Facebook last month to launch a group.. More

  • 'Many dead' in Syrian crackdown

    Human rights activists say at least 15 people have been killed in the Syrian town of Daraa, the focal point of almost a week of anti-government protests. Activists and residents said security forces opened fire on protesters outside the Omari mosque early on Wednesday, after hundreds of people had gathered overnight to prevent police from storming.. More

  • US soldier pleads guilty to Afghan killings

    A US soldier has pleaded guilty to the murders of three Afghan civilians, as part of a rogue US army unit in southern Afghanistan last year. Corporal Jeremy Morlock, who is set to testify against four co-accused, admitted murdering or helping to kill three men, and using illegally obtained Afghan weapons to make it appear that the victims were enemy.. More

  • Israeli jets strike Gaza

    Israeli jets have staged three air strikes over Gaza, hours after a bomb struck a crowded bus stop in West Jerusalem, killing at least one person and wounding 30 in what authorities said was the first major attack in the city in several years. Palestinian sources said early on Thursday two of the raids targeted the city of Gaza while another was aimed.. More

  • Syrian forces 'open fire on protesters'

    Security forces have attempted to storm a mosque in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, reportedly killing at least five people. Residents said heavy gunfire was heard near the Omari mosque in the early hours of Wednesday in the city, which has been the scene of anti-government protests since Friday. "It seems that security forces may be trying.. More

  • Anti-aircraft fire erupts in Tripoli

    Anti-aircraft fire has erupted over the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after a day of heavy fighting between pro-democracy fighters and forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi. Anti-aircraft crews began firing shortly after nightfall in the capital on Tuesday, four nights after an international military coalition launched an operation to enforce a no-fly.. More

  • Israeli attacks kill eight in Gaza

    At least eight Palestinians, including children, have been killed in mortar attacks and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The deaths occurred in two separate attacks on the eastern part of Gaza City on Tuesday, witnesses said. Two of the dead were aged 11 and 16, and four of them were from the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement,.. More

  • Palestinians wounded in Israeli air strikes

    At least 19 people, including children, have been wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian emergency workers said. Witnesses and medics said Israeli jets carried out at least six air strikes late on Monday in the northern town of Beit Lahiya and Gaza City. Witnesses said a security compound for Hamas, which controls.. More

  • Defections hit Yemen president

    Several military commanders, ambassadors and tribal chiefs in Yemen have made clear their support for pro-democracy protesters, ramping up pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, to step down. The developments led to tanks being deployed on Monday in the streets of Sanaa, the capital, creating a potentially explosive situation and prompting.. More

  • Explosions rock Libyan capital

    Loud explosions have rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a third night as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi attempt to stop any new attack from the foreign military coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over the country. Gunfire and anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky late on Monday in and around the capital, where two large explosions could be heard about.. More

  • Egypt approves constitutional changes

    Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a package of constitutional amendments, according to official results released on Sunday evening. Slightly more than 77 per cent of voters endorsed the amendments, the country's supreme judicial committee has announced. Roughly 18 million Egyptians went to the polls on Saturday, a 41 per cent turnout... More

  • Yemen president fires cabinet

    Yemen's embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh has fired his cabinet, according to a statement from his office. Sunday's announcement comes after a month-long popular uprising calling for political reform and Saleh's resignation. The president has asked the cabinet to serve as caretaker government until he forms a new one. Several ministers have.. More

  • Strike hits Gaddafi compound in Tripoli

    A three-storey building in a military command centre used by Muammar Gaddafi has been destroyed in an air strike by coalition forces. The Sunday-night strike was the first reported attack on the Bab al-Azizia, a sprawling compound in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that Gaddafi has used several times as a setting for televised addresses, and which was.. More