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  • EU strongly condemns Russian strikes on Aleppo

    The European Union has strongly condemned Russia for causing "untold suffering" through its bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo, but stopped short of considering new sanctions on Moscow. "Since the beginning of the offensive by the regime and its allies, notably Russia, the intensity and scale of the aerial bombardment of eastern.. More

  • Israel closes Palestinian lands for Jewish holiday

    Israel has closed the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. A military spokesperson said crossings between the West Bank and Gaza to Israel would be stopped on Sunday and Monday except for humanitarian purposes. Israel routinely places restrictions on movement of Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories.. More

  • At least 49 killed in Russian, Syrian strikes in Aleppo

    At least 49 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded late Sunday when Russian and regime warplanes struck opposition-held areas of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a local civil defense official. Najib al-Ansari, a pro-opposition civil defense official in the city, said jets targeted the residential areas with various.. More

  • Russian airstrike kills 11 in Syria’s Idlib

    At least 11 people were killed and 25 others injured Saturday when Russian fighter jets struck an opposition-held neighborhood in western Syria’s Idlib province, according to a local civil defense official. The Russian strike targeted a drug warehouse and a civil defense center in Turmanin neighborhood, Vasik Harak told Anadolu Agency. He.. More

  • Population of blockaded Gaza Strip hits 2-million mark

    The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil Affairs said the strip’s total population had surpassed two million after the birth of two babies on Tuesday evening. Acc.. More

  • Scores dead after Aleppo pounded in aerial onslaught

    Syria's Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on opposition-held neighborhoods, a local rescue group said. First responders said the divided city's eastern sector was pounded by more than 50 Russian and Syrian regime missile attacks throughout the day that also wounded more than 87 people.. More

  • Russian bombs in Aleppo kill dozens, says Syrian source

    At least 43 civilians died and dozens were injured Tuesday in a Russian air strike on besieged opposition-held districts of Aleppo, a Syrian civil defense official told Anadolu Agency. Russian forces targeted “opposition-held neighborhoods with more than 30 percussion bombs,” Ansar Najib said. Najib stated 27 people died in the Bustan.. More

  • Israel shoots dead Palestinian protester in Jerusalem

    Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian after clashes in the Silwan neighbourhood of Occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said. Ali Shioukhi, 20, was killed by security forces on Tuesday night, as the Israeli army was deployed in force across the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to quell Palestinian dissent during the Jewish holiday.. More

  • Int'l Rohingya groups claim crackdown afoot in Myanmar

    Rohingya advocacy groups worldwide are voicing concern at what they claim is a violent crackdown on the Muslim minority group following the murder of nine police officers in Myanmar. The nine died along with eight armed men in three separate attacks on police outposts on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in western Rakhine State early Sunday. On Monday,.. More

  • France wants Aleppo war crimes probe

    France has announced it will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate possible war crimes committed in Syrian city of Aleppo. Opposition-held eastern Aleppo city, besieged since early September, has been the focus of an intense aerial bombardment campaign by Russian and Syrian regime fighter jets. For their part, anti-regime fighters.. More

  • Israel kidnaps 54 Palestinians after shooting

    Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday morning have raided several parts of the West Bank and Jerusalem, kidnapped dozens and injured others in clashes. In Azzoun village north of Qalqilia, IOF kidnapped Palestinians and closed down a lathe workshop, confiscated equipment, claiming that it produces weapons. A Palestinian man was shot dead after.. More

  • Syrian regime continues Aleppo assault as UN truce efforts fail

    In a statement published on Sunday, as Syrian regime forces pressed on with their offensive against opposition fighters in the city, the Russians said the French text was "politicized and one-sided". The UN Security Council voted on Saturday on two rival resolutions on the fighting - one drafted by France calling for an end to air strikes.. More

  • 8 soldiers killed in PKK car bomb in southeast Turkey

    Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb Sunday outside a military station in southeast Turkey, killing eight soldiers and wounding five others, Turkey's state-run news agency said. Turkey launched a military operation in response to the attack. The Anadolu Agency, citing a statement by the Turkish Armed Forces, said the attack outside a Gendarmerie.. More

  • Hurricane Matthew: Haiti battles cholera outbreak

    Government officials said on Saturday that at least 13 people had died of cholera in the country's southwest, as severely damaged water supplies and sanitation systems increase the risk of the disease spreading. The Haitian health ministry’s cholera programme said at least 62 people were sick from cholera, a water-borne disease, with outbreaks.. More

  • Russia vetoes UN resolution on Syria truce

    Russia on Saturday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution submitted by France that proposed restoring a cessation of hostilities in Syria's Aleppo. Moscow submitted a draft resolution of its own, which also urged for the end of violence in Aleppo but with an emphasis on continued fight against “extremists”, the term used by Russia.. More