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  • Attacks in Iraq killed 11, injured 54

    Eleven people were killed and 54 others injured in separate blasts in Iraq on Monday. Sources said that one was killed and eight others were injured when an explosive placed near a bakery in Qamiliyya district in south of Baghdad was detonated. In Mosul, three were killed, 18 injured in Talafar district as an explosive-laden vehicle blasted, while.. More

  • Syrian opposition takes control of Minnigh military base

    Syrian dissident forces took control of the Minnigh Military Base in Aleppo which was under the control of the Syrian army. Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), a London-based group that tracks civilian and dissident casualties stated Monday that several armed groups took the full control of Minnigh Military Base in Aleppo from the Syrian army after.. More

  • 'Family size' protests at Egypt's Rabaa al-Adawiya

    Life hasn't settled down in Egypt, the state going through the most important days of its history. Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has left behind 36 days of demonstrations at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square which has become the center of attention of the world recently. Crowded groups, at times exceeding millions, are determined to continue their.. More

  • Kerry retracts Egypt coup remarks

    US Secretary of State John Kerry has tempered his remarks regarding the military coup in Egypt, which he had earlier said was aimed at "restoring democracy." "The last thing that we want is more violence," Kerry said ahead of his meeting in London with the United Arab Emirates foreign minister. "The temporary government has.. More

  • Syrian opposition forces seize army weapons cache

    Syrian opposition forces have captured an ammunition depot north of Damascus from regime forces, activists said, seizing a hoard of anti-tank missiles and rockets which could strengthen their firepower. Video footage of the raid published on Saturday showed delighted opposition fighters carrying out boxes of weapons from the arms cache in Denha, near.. More

  • Morsi supporters march on National Security, Military Intelligence HQs

    Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi organized two protest marches in Cairo on Friday evening to the headquarters of Egypt's Military Intelligence and National Security apparatuses. Marchers chanted slogans in support of the deposed leader and against army chief and Defense Minister Gen Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, according to an Anadolu Agency corresponde.. More

  • Pro-Morsi demonstrators to stage 33 rallies in Cairo, Giza

    Backers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi will stage 33 rallies in Cairo and Giza on Friday to denounce the overthrow of the elected leader. The rallies will start from mosques in the two governorates following the weekly prayers, the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, made up mostly of Islamist parties and groups supportive of Morsi,.. More

  • Pro-Morsi sit-ins to continue even if Rabi'a forcibly dispersed: MB leader

    A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader insisted on Thursday that sit-ins staged by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi would continue nationwide even if the main sit-ins in Cairo and Giza were dispersed by force. "The Interior Ministry's warning would lead to no breakthrough or a solution of the crisis," Essam al-Erian, deputy head of.. More

  • Syria bomb attack kills 20 of regime soldiers, Hezbollah militants

    A bomb attack mounted on Wednesday on a military convoy of Assad regime soldiers and Hezbollah militants left 20 of them dead in Aleppo city of Syria. According to the statement of Syria Information Center, Free Syrian Army (FSA) staged a bomb attack on a convoy carrying soldiers loyal to Assad regime as well as Hezbollah militants. 20 of the soldiers.. More

  • Palestinian women protest resumption of Mideast peace talks

    Palestinian women staged a protest in Gaza against Middle East peace talks that have resumed after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed for substantive talks. Hamas parliamentarians, representatives of Hamas women's branch and many Palestinian women and children gathered in Gaza to participate in the protest. Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri rejected.. More

  • South Africa not budging on Morsi's 'unconstitutional' ouster

    Despite criticism from Cairo, the South African government is standing by its classification of what recently happened in Egypt as a "military coup." "Our position on Egypt is very clear and we do not intend to retract our statement," Nelson Kgwete, director for media liaison at South Africa’s Department of International Relations.. More

  • German FM arrives in Cairo on first visit since Morsi's ouster

    German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Cairo Wednesday evening on his first visit to Egypt since the ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi. Germany's top diplomat arrived on a private plane from Berlin accompanied by a number of senior officials, sources at Cairo airport told the AA. Westerwelle is expected to discuss the political.. More

  • Syrian regime forces kill 2,104 people since beginning of Ramadan

    A total of 2,104 people were killed across Syria since the beginning of Ramadan in operations staged by the Syrian regime forces. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which tracks civilian and opposition casualties, said in its report that death toll in the first 21 days of Ramadan included 671 fighters of the Free Syrian Army --.. More

  • Sisi may tend toward conducting massacres, says Brotherhood

    Spokesperson of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed al-Beltagi stated that army chief and Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi would not be able to disperse the protests by using force, and might therefore tend toward executing massacre at certain intervals. “I don't think Al-Sisi comprehends that dispersing protests by using force would fail and such.. More

  • EU envoy says Morsi 'well' after meeting

    Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, said Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi was "well" after meeting him for two hours, his first known contact with the outside world since he was toppled by the army earlier this month. In a press conference on Tuesday, Ashton said Morsi "has access to information, in terms.. More