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  • World in shock as Trump surges to victory in U.S.

    Governments from Asia to Europe reacted with stunned disbelief on Wednesday to the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, while populists hailed the result as a triumph of the people over a failed political establishment. German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, described the result as a.. More

  • Israel jails Palestinian boy over stabbing attack

    An Israeli court has sentenced a 14-year-old Palestinian boy to 12 years in prison for his role in a stabbing attack that wounded two Israelis in October last year. Ahmed Manasra, who was 13 at the time of the incident, was sentenced by Israel's Jerusalem's District Court on Monday for the attempted murder of two Israelis in an settlement north of.. More

  • Young Syrian named journalist of the year

    Syrian freelance journalist Hadi Abdullah on Monday won one of the world's top press awards for reporting from some of the most perilous zones in his country's five-year-old war. Reporters without Borders (RSF) said it was awarding the 29-year-old Syrian the RSF-TV5 Monde prize, the second year running that the honor has gone to a Syrian. Abdullah.. More

  • Regime shells nursery school in Syria, 8 children die

    At least eight children were killed and 15 others injured when regime forces shelled a nursery in opposition-held Harasta city, a northeastern suburb of the capital Damascus, a local civil defense official told Anadolu Agency. The Syrian regime targeted Bunel al-Mustakbel nursery, Muhammad Adem said, adding the artillery fire began when the children.. More

  • US admits air strikes 'likely' killed Afghan civilians

    US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their air strikes in the northern province of Kunduz had "very likely" resulted in civilian killings. At least 32 people, including babies, children and women, were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when their houses on the outskirts of Kunduz city were bombed as they slept. The killings.. More

  • ISIL counter-attacks in Mosul as fierce fighting rages

    ISIL fighters launched ferocious counter-attacks on Saturday in territory Iraqi special forces captured in Mosul's eastern edges, highlighting the tough battle ahead as troops push into densely populated neighborhoods. Fighters from the armed group emerged from deeper in the city to target Iraqi soldiers with mortars and suicide car bombs. They also.. More

  • Palestinians demand apology for Balfour declaration

    Hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday staged two separate protests -- outside the British Cultural Council in Ramallah and outside UNESCO’s office in Gaza City -- to mark the passage of 99 years since the controversial Balfour Declaration. Protesters raised Palestinian flags and banners calling on the British government to apologize to the Palestinian.. More

  • Israel razes Muslim graves in East Jerusalem cemetery

    Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished several graves in occupied East Jerusalem's historical Bab al-Rahmah cemetery east of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a Palestinian official. "Personnel from the so-called ‘Israeli Antiquities Authority’ -- backed by large numbers of Israeli forces -- stormed the historical Bab al-Rahmah cemetery.. More

  • Israel imposes severe water restrictions on West Bank villages

    Gulf News has reported there is a clear inequality in the distribution of water between Palestinians and Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. Palestinians are allotted 70 liters per person per day, which is below the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 100 liters per person per day. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers receive around 300.. More

  • Syrian opposition captures strategic Aleppo village

    Syrian opposition forces have captured the village of Manyan near the entrance of the New Aleppo district of the besieged city of Aleppo, opposition sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The move comes as part of a military operation launched last Friday by opposition factions affiliated with the Jaish al-Fatah ("Army of Conquest") group.. More

  • Palestinian killed after 3 Israeli police officers hurt

    A Palestinian man was killed in the southern West Bank on Sunday evening after allegedly wounding three Israeli police officers, according to Israel’s Channel 2. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a written statement that the man was shot after he attempted to run over three Israeli soldiers and left them "slightly wounded". The.. More

  • 60 years on, Palestinians recall Kafr Qasim massacre

    The Palestinians in Israel on Saturday commemorated the 60th anniversary of a bloody massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the Arab Israeli village of Kafr Qasim. The deadly event took place on October, 29, 1956 when Israeli forces shot dead 49 Palestinians in the village, including women and children. "On.. More

  • Opposition launches counter-attack to break Aleppo siege

    The newly-formed Syrian opposition launched a counter-attack against the Syrian regime and its allies on Friday in an attempt to break a week-long siege on eastern Aleppo, the opposition said. The city has been divided for years between the regime-held western sector and opposition-held east. The regime army and its allies laid siege to the eastern.. More

  • Earthquake brings down buildings in central Italy

    A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has rocked central Italy, sending already quake-damaged buildings crumbling after a week of tremors that have left thousands homeless. There were no immediate reports of injuries or death. Residents already rattled by a constant trembling of the earth rushed into piazzas and streets after being.. More

  • Iraqi Shia militias launch offensive in western Mosul

    The involvement of Shia militias in the Mosul operation after they have been accused of abuses against civilians in Sunni-majority areas has raised concerns that sectarian tensions could worsen. Turkey has repeatedly warned of the risk of sectarian conflict breaking out if Shia militias are allowed to enter Sunni-majority Mosul. Iraqi Shia militias.. More