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  • Israeli forces kill Gaza protester

    A Palestinian man was killed and 28 others, including an Anadolu Agency staffer were injured during a clash between Israeli soldiers and protesters in Gaza late Friday, local sources said. Israeli soldiers used live rounds, rubber bullets and teargas on hundreds of Palestinians at the protest. Hani Rafiq Vahdan, 22, died when he received a gunshot.. More

  • Amnesty: Russia covering up Syrian death toll

    Earlier this month Amnesty International's report on Syria stated that Russia was covering up the death toll in Syria while the Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu has urged the international community to put a stop to Russia's attacks on civilians. Russia’s attacks on Syrian civilians are inhumane and against human conscience, Turkish Foreign Minister.. More

  • US launches strikes in embattled Afghan district

    The U.S. launched air strikes to bolster Afghan forces scrambling Thursday to beat back Taliban fighters who seized large swathes of a key district, following the first British deployment to the volatile region in 14 months. The Taliban fighters claim to have captured nearly the entire district of Sangin after storming its frontlines on Sunday, tightening.. More

  • Deadly fire rips through Saudi hospital

    At least 25 people have been killed and 107 injured in a fire at a hospital in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, authorities said. The Saudi civil defense directorate said in a post on Facebook that the fire at the Jizan General Hospital started at about 2.30am local time. It is not yet known what caused the blaze, which began on the first floor of the hospital. The.. More

  • Turkey FM condemns Russian airstrike in Syria

    Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has condemned Russia for Sunday’s airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. In a written statement, Turkey’s top diplomat said Monday around 200 civilians had been killed and buildings damaged. “Russia mainly targets the moderate opposition in Syria since it entered.. More

  • Strike kills former Israeli prisoner Kantar in Syria

    A high-profile member of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, who had spent years in Israeli prisons, has been killed in Syria in a suspected Israeli air strike, according to Hezbollah. Samir Kantar was killed along with eight others in a strike on a building in the Jaramana area of the capital Damascus on Sunday morning, al-Manar TV, the official.. More

  • Yemen peace deal elusive but rivals vow to meet again

    Yemen's warring parties have wrapped up peace talks in Switzerland with no major breakthrough but vowed to meet again next month, even as fighting raged on the ground. The six days of closed-door meetings were strained by repeated violations of a ceasefire aimed at calming tensions between pro-government forces and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who.. More

  • Yemen's rival sides agree on mass prisoner swap

    Yemen's rival sides have agreed to exchange hundreds of prisoners in a move aimed at supporting the United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland, despite both sides accusing each other of breaching a ceasefire. A seven-day truce, timed to coincide with the peace talks, began at midday on Tuesday to halt fighting in nine months of war between.. More

  • Israel army kills two Palestinians in refugee camp raid

    Two Palestinians have been killed and four wounded during an overnight Israeli army raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp in the central occupied West Bank. Ahmed Jahajha, 21, and Hikmet Hamdan, 29, were both shot dead by Israeli forces before dawn on Wednesday morning. While inside the camp, Israeli troops raided a local medical Centre and clashed with.. More

  • Saudi Arabia forms Muslim 'anti-terrorism' coalition

    Saudi Arabia has formed a coalition of 34 mainly Muslim countries - including powers such as Egypt and Turkey - to coordinate a fight against "terrorist organizations". Arab countries such as Qatar and the UAE will join the coalition, as well as Middle Eastern, Asian and African states including Pakistan, Malaysia, and Nigeria. "It.. More

  • Russian airstrikes 'kill 50 outside Damascus': sources

    Fifty civilians were killed and another 200 injured on Sunday in airstrikes reportedly carried out by Russian warplanes on the opposition-held Douma district in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. According to local civil defense sources, Russian warplanes carried out 25 airstrikes on residential areas in the Douma district. The same sources said.. More

  • Yemen's warring sides agree to ceasefire ahead of talks

    A seven-day ceasefire in Yemen is to start on Monday, a day before UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland, officials on both sides of a war said. Yemen's foreign minister, Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi, who will lead President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's delegation to the UN talks, said that fighting would stop on "the evening of December 14". "We.. More

  • Dozens of Syrian civilians killed in air strikes

    Dozens of civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian regime and Russian forces on Sunday in Syria's Damascus suburbs, sources told Al Jazeera. Ahmad, an officer from the Douma branch of the Syrian Civil Defense department, told Al Jazeera that regime air strikes and rocket barrages targeted Ghouta district in the Damascus suburbs. "At least 41.. More

  • World adopts climate change pact

    Saturday’s meeting of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) came to the first legally binding and universal agreement on climate change in over 20 years of UN negotiations. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that the agreement had been accepted by 195 countries with no one opposing it. UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon said in a.. More

  • Swiss court rejects headscarf ban

    The Swiss Federal Court has rejected a St Gallen cantonal commune’s ban on wearing Muslim headscarves, or hijabs, in school. Friday’s decision finalizes a case that began in 2013, when the school authorities of the commune of St Margrethen objected to 14-year-old Muslim student who wore her hijab to class. The school’s complaint was.. More