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PKK frees Turkish hostages in peace bid
Kurdish rebels in Turkey have released eight hostages after their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called for a prisoner exchange. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) freed the eight soldiers and civil servants on Wednesday as part of a peace process with the Turkish government that it hopes will lead to a ceasefire by August. According to reports, Ocalan.. More -
Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank
Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian and injured at least eight others during clashes in a flashpoint district of the occupied West Bank. Twenty two-year-old Mahmoud AlTiti was killed after Israeli forces broke into a camp in Fuwar near the city of Hebron on Tuesday, and opened fire on a group of Palestinians who were throwing stones. The hospital.. More -
Fierce clashes rage in Syrian city of Homs
Syrian regime forces have fired heavy machine guns and launched at least one airstrike on a neighborhood in the central city of Homs that revolution forces claimed to have seized. Monday’s fresh fighting raged in and around the Baba Amr district, sending civilians in nearby neighborhoods fleeing the area. Baba Amr, a poor neighborhood on the.. More -
NATO force hit by fatal Afghanistan crash
Five members of the NATO-led international force in Afghanistan have been killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather in the country's south, according to coalition and provincial authorities. Police in the southern province of Kandahar said the accident occurred on Monday evening during a heavy rainstorm in Daman district. The NATO-led International.. More -
Deal reached to resume Sudan-S Sudan oil flow
Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume the flow of southern oil exports through pipelines in Sudan within two weeks, more than a year after Juba shut down its entire output. An African Union mediator announced the deal on Tuesday, which rekindles trade between the two countries after South Sudan shut down its 350,000 barrel-per-day output in January.. More -
S Korea-US drill stirs tensions with North
South Korean and US troops have launched a joint military exercise as North Korea, which has slammed the drill and threatened both countries with nuclear attack, severed its hotline with Seoul. The start of the two-week annual "Key Resolve" exercise follows a week of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, with North Korea lashing.. More -
Egyptian minister warns of police strain
The Egyptian interior minister has said daily protests, clashes and harsh media criticism have strained the nation's police forces. Mohammed Ibrahim also dismissed a strike by policemen as minor and warned against what he called plots to cause the disintegration of the force, saying he will not allow vigilante groups to replace the police. "From.. More -
Several bodies turn up in Aleppo river
Syrian opposition campaigners have said at least 20 bodies of young men shot by security forces were found in a small waterway running through the contested city of Aleppo. Sunday's discovery was the largest in a single day of number of bodies lifted from what became known as "the river of martyrs", after 65 bodies turned up in late January. An.. More -
Deadly Egypt riots follow football verdicts
At least one person has been killed as fans of rival football teams take to the streets in Egypt, angered by verdicts over last year's deadly stadium riots in Port Said. Fans of the Cairo club Al-Ahly, angered by the acquittal of seven police officers, set fire to a police officers' club and the football federation's headquarters in the capital. Hundreds.. More -
UN peacekeepers freed after Syria captivity
Syrian revolution forces have freed 21 UN peacekeepers and have handed them over to Jordanian authorities, an international peace envoy to Syria says. Mokhtar Lamani, the Damascus representative of the new UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, said the peacekeepers crossed into Jordan on Saturday afternoon. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed.. More -
Egypt court suspends legislative vote
Egypt's administrative court has ordered the cancellation of controversial parliamentary elections scheduled for April 22, which the opposition vowed to boycott. The court said in its ruling on Wednesday that it had ordered the cancellation of a decree issued by President Mohamed Morsi that called for parliamentary elections starting April 22. It.. More -
Arab League offers Syria seat to opposition
The Arab League has offered the Syrian National Coalition, an opposition umbrella group backed by the West and Arab states, Syria's seat at the league, and has decided to let its member nations arm the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Nabil Elaraby, the regional body's secretary-general, said on Wednesday that ministers meeting in Cairo.. More -
Syria revolution forces capture northern Raqqa city
Syrian revolution forces battling troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad overran al-Raqqa after days of fierce fighting, and were now in "near-total control" of the northern city, activists said. The fall of Raqqa, located on the Euphrates River, on Monday is a significant development in the two-year-old revolt against Assad. The revolution.. More -
Israel's Palestinian-only buses 'torched'
Unknown assailants have set fire to two buses which Israel began operating as Palestinians-only lines to be used by Palestinian laborers travelling between the West Bank and Israel. "Two buses were apparently set on fire but we are looking into all possibilities," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP news agency on Tuesday, saying the.. More -
US and Saudi send warnings to Iran and Syria
The United States and Saudi Arabia have presented a united front to Iran and Syria, alerting Iran's leadership that patience over its alleged nuclear ambitions is wearing thin and warning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that they will boost support to rebels unless he steps down. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, was in Saudi Arabia on Monday.. More
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