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  • 'Coalition warplanes kill 27 civilians' in Iraq's Mosul

    Coalition warplanes killed 27 civilians in airstrikes in Iraq’s Mosul city on Saturday, an Iraqi doctor said. Dr. Ahmed Raid al-Hamadani, an official with Mosul operations' mobile hospitals unit, told Anadolu Agency: “As far as we have learnt from eyewitnesses, a civilian convey of 10 vehicles was targeted by coalition forces in eastern.. More

  • Thousands more Iraqis flee Mosul battles

    More than 13,000 civilians have fled Iraq's Mosul over the past five days since government troops began the second phase in a battle to retake the city from ISIL last week, the United Nations has said. "The average daily displacement numbers have increased by nearly 50 percent since military operations intensified, some 1,600 to more than 2,300.. More

  • Bomb kills dozens in northern Syrian city of Azaz

    A fuel truck exploded in the busy center of an opposition-held town near Syria's border with Turkey on Saturday killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more. The blast struck near a bustling market and in front of a courthouse in Azaz killing at least 48 people - a death toll expected to rise, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rami.. More

  • Thousands more Iraqis flee Mosul battles

    More than 13,000 civilians have fled Iraq's Mosul over the past five days since government troops began the second phase in a battle to retake the city from the ISIL last week, the United Nations has said. "The average daily displacement numbers have increased by nearly 50 percent since military operations intensified, some 1,600 to more than.. More

  • Turkey accuses Syrian regime of truce violations

    Turkey has accused the Syrian regime of violating a fragile ceasefire in the country and said the new round of negotiations to be held in Kazakh capital Astana was at risk. The Russian-Turkish brokered ceasefire last week has brought calm to large parts of Syria, but has been threatened by ongoing fighting in the Wadi Barada region near the capital.. More

  • Israel army arrests dozens of Palestinians in West Bank

    Israeli forces detained two dozen Palestinians in overnight raids across Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army. "Army forces arrested 25 Palestinians from all over the West Bank," the army said in a statement. The military said 16 of the detainees were suspected of “terror” activities while the other nine.. More

  • Turkey extends state of emergency

    Turkey's state of emergency will be extended for another three months, the government said Tuesday. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus made the announcement following a Cabinet meeting. Kurtulmus told reporters that ministers decided the state of emergency would be extended as of Jan. 19 for 90 days, with parliament’s approval. He attributed.. More

  • Syria opposition forces freeze negotiations, saying truce violated

    Syria's main opposition groups say they have frozen their participation in preliminary peace talks planned for Kazakhstan later this month due to several "violations" by the regime of a five-day-old truce. Sources told Al Jazeera the groups were freezing their participation in negotiations being prepared by Russia due to a regime-led assault.. More

  • Syria opposition forces freeze negotiations, saying truce violated

    Syria's main opposition groups say they have frozen their participation in preliminary peace talks planned for Kazakhstan later this month due to several "violations" by the regime of a five-day-old truce. Sources told Al Jazeera the groups were freezing their participation in negotiations being prepared by Russia due to a regime-led assault.. More

  • Cologne police screen hundreds of North African men

    Police in the German city of Cologne say they screened hundreds of men "seemingly of African descent" on New Year's Eve as part of a precautionary measure in reaction to last year's allegations of robberies and sexual assaults. By early Sunday police had received reports of two women being sexually assaulted in Cologne. One suspect was arrested. C.. More

  • Syrian regime warplanes strike near Damascus during fragile truce

    Syrian regime warplanes resumed their bombardment of a opposition-held valley near Damascus on Sunday after nearly 24 hours with no air raids, an opposition official and monitors said, during the third day of a fragile ceasefire. The truce deal, brokered by Russia and Turkey which back opposing sides in the conflict and welcomed unanimously by the.. More

  • More than 1,000 migrants storm border at Spain's Ceuta

    More than 1,000 migrants tried to jump a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday in a violent assault that saw one officer lose an eye. A group of 1,100 people from sub-Saharan Africa trying to reach Europe stormed the border fence just after 4am (0300 GMT) on New Year's Day in an "extremely violent and organized&quo.. More

  • More than 20 killed, dozens injured after fire on Indonesian tourist boat

    Twenty three people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the city's search and rescue agency said. The Zahro Express caught fire shortly after leaving Muara Angke port in North Jakarta. The cause of the fire was thought to be a short.. More

  • Erdogan says Turkey will fight to end against terror attacks

    President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey would fight to the end against all forms of attack by terror groups and their backers after a gunman killed 39 people in a shooting spree at an Istanbul nightclub. "As a nation, we will fight to the end against not just the armed attacks of terror groups and the forces behind them, but also against.. More

  • Nigeria's Buhari says will pursue peace in restive Niger Delta in 2017

    Nigeria's government will seek a lasting peace settlement with militants in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta region in 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a New Year's message on Saturday. Attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria's energy hub, coupled with low oil prices, helped push Africa's biggest economy into recession - the first in 25.. More