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Explosion reported in Damascus mosque
Syrian warplanes have bombed the suburbs of Damascus, while opposition forces have fired mortar shells at the capital on the first day of a major Muslim holiday, an activist group said on Tuesday. Al Jazeera has also received reports of a bombing inside a mosque in the al-Tadmon neighbourhood, south of the capital Damascus, on the morning of the Eid.. More -
Millions of pilgrims stay at Arafat
More than two million pilgrims who poured out of the city of Mecca to begin the annual Hajj, have flocked Arafat. Muslims performing Hajj stayed in Arafat under very tight security measures. Under the stringent penal action and safety regulations during the pilgrimage season, four thousand motorcycles, more than 27 thousand vehicles and above 30 thousand.. More -
65 people killed by regime in Syria
Syrian regime troops held operations across Syria, killing 65 people, including 17 children and four women. Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) made a statement saying that Assad regime held air-land operations in regions where opponents mostly resided, killing 15 people in Allepo, 13 in suburbs of the capital Damascus, nine each in Idlib and Dera,.. More -
Migrant deaths prompt calls for EU action
Italy and Malta have urged European partners to do more to stop a migrant crisis which the Maltese prime minister says has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a "cemetery" after another boat sank off Sicily, killing dozens more people. The comments came a day after a boat packed with 250 migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 people,.. More -
US withholds military aid to Egypt
The US is reducing its military aid to Egypt following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and the subsequent crackdown on his supporters by the military-backed government. The US provides $1.5bn in aid each year to Egypt. While the State Department did not provide the total amount of the aid being cut, it amounts to hundreds of millions in mostly.. More -
Lebanon rebukes Syria for cross-border raid
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has criticized Syria for a cross-border raid that he said targeted an ambulance in the east of the country, causing no injuries. Local officials said the attack was carried out on Monday night by Syrian warplanes that fired at an area in the Arsal region of Lebanon, which has regularly been targeted by cross-border.. More -
Obama pressures Congress over shutdown
US President Barack Obama has said that he is willing to negotiate with Republicans on fiscal issues and his signature healthcare law, but warned that "we can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy". In a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, he urged John Boehner, the House speaker, to hold a vote to end the partial.. More -
UN chief outlines Syria chemical weapons plan
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed the formation of a 100-member strong mission to oversee the cataloguing and destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, according to a letter from the UN chief to the Security Council. Ban said that international chemical weapons inspectors and support staff were operating in a "dangerous and.. More -
Multiple attacks target Egypt state security
Ten people were killed in three separate attacks in Egypt on Monday, most of them soldiers and police officers, in a fresh round of violence that followed violent clashes across the country one day earlier. The deadliest attack was in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, east of Cairo, where masked gunmen opened fire on an army patrol. Six soldiers were.. More -
UN experts 'begin destroying Syria stockpile'
A team of disarmament inspectors in Syria have begun the process of destroying the country's chemical weapons and production facilities, news reports say. A source in the international mission told AFP news agency on Sunday that members of the team from the UN and The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "have.. More -
Deadly clashes erupt on Egypt war anniversary
At least 51 people were killed in violence in Egypt as anti-coup protesters took to the streets on the 40th anniversary of an Egyptian attack on Israeli forces. Egypt's Health Ministry announced the number of fatalities and also said that 268 people had been injured in clashes across the country. The Interior Ministry announced as night fell that.. More -
Rival demonstrations called in Egypt
Supporters and opponents of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have called for rival demonstrations on the 1973 Arab-Israeli war anniversary after the deadliest violence in weeks. The Anti-Coup Alliance called on Saturday for its supporters to try to reach Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, which has been blocked off by the army, to mark the 40th.. More -
US sources confirm raids in Somalia and Libya
US military forces have conducted an operation in Somalia targeting a member of the rebel group al-Shabab, a Pentagon official has said. On Saturday, George Little, the press secretary for the US Department of Defense, confirmed the raid was carried out. He said that the operation was aimed at capturing a "high value al-Shabab rebel leader".. More -
EU envoy meets Brotherhood leaders in Egypt
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a closed-door meeting aimed at reconciliation between the army-backed interim government and opposition groups. A senior member of the Brotherhood, Amr Darrag, said on Wednesday that talks included discussion on the political deadlock in Egypt,.. More -
UN urges immediate aid access to Syria
The UN Security Council has urged the Syrian government to allow cross-border aid deliveries, calling on all parties to Syria's conflict to agree on humanitarian pauses in fighting and key routes for aid convoys. More than 2 million Syrians, mostly women and children, have fled during the 30-months conflict, which the UN says has killed more than 110,000.. More
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