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Syria's ex-spokesperson breaks silence

Jihad Makdissi, the former Syrian foreign ministry spokesman, has said he has a neutral stance on the 23-month conflict, as he broke his silence for the first time since leaving the country in December. "I left Syria because the polarization in the country has reached a deadly and destructive stage... I left a battlefield, not a normal country,.. More

184405 14/02/2013
Argentina confirms quizzing of Iran suspects

Argentina's top diplomat has insisted that an Argentine judge would question Iranian suspects in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building, despite an apparent Iranian refusal. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman gave the assurance to a Senate committee on Wednesday, a day after Iran's foreign ministry said assertions that former Iranian.. More

184403 14/02/2013
Israel breaks silence on 'Prisoner X'

Israel has confirmed the reported suicide of an Australian prisoner who had worked for the Israeli spy agency Mossad. Israel broke its silence on Wednesday after Australia's ABC news network first revealed the identity of Prisoner X, a 34-year-old man who had used three different names, including Ben Zygier, Ben Allen, and Ben Alon. After initially.. More

184401 14/02/2013
North Korean nuclear test draws anger, including from China

North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of U.N. resolutions, drawing condemnation from around the world, including from its only major ally, China, which summoned the North Korean ambassador to protest. Pyongyang said the test was an act of self-defense against "U.S. hostility" and threatened stronger steps if.. More

184377 13/02/2013
Israel approves 90 new settler homes

Israel has given final approval for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The homes will be built in Beit El, a major Jewish settlement north of Jerusalem, the defense ministry said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that 300 new.. More

184375 13/02/2013
Syrian opposition forces 'capture' air base in Aleppo

Opposition fighters in Syria have seized a military air base and captured warplanes in the north of the country, as part of an assault on strategic northern targets. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday's capture of the military airport at al-Jarah in Aleppo province. The London-based monitor said the fighters also seized for.. More

184373 13/02/2013
Opposition forces launch attacks across Syria

Battles continued between Syrian regime forces and rebels for the control of a key highway outside Damascus, activists have said, as rebels launched fierce assaults in several other parts of the country. Sunday’s fighting was the heaviest in the capital since the first rebel push into the city last July. Checkpoints on the main artery into.. More

184349 11/02/2013
Israel's former foreign minister scoffs at Palestinian deal

A close ally of Israel's prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians "impossible", saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be "managed". Former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in a television interview on Saturday linked the more than two-year-old impasse to political turmoil in the Arab world. "Anyone.. More

184327 10/02/2013
Syrian cabinet reshuffled amid more violence

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reshuffled his Cabinet, appointing seven new ministers, as crackdown continues around the capital and in the province of Homs. State TV said on Saturday that Assad replaced the heads of the oil, finance, social affairs, labor, housing, public works and agriculture ministries, in a move that appeared aimed at trying.. More

184325 10/02/2013
Islamic nations summit opens in Cairo

The 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation has opened in Cairo, with Syria's war and Mali topping the agenda. Senegalese President Macky Sall gave the opening remarks on Wednesday, making his last address before handing the OIC's rotating presidency to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. President Morsi also addressed the summit. He.. More

184287 07/02/2013
Security staff killed in Iraq jail-break bid

At least seven security officers have been killed after a car bomb exploded near the main entrance of the Taji central prison near Baghdad, Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports. The deadly attack on Tuesday was part of an attempt to break into the jail and free the prisoners, she said, quoting Iraqi justice ministry officials. The security officers were.. More

184269 06/02/2013
Massive quake strikes off Solomon Islands

A powerful earthquake has struck off the Solomon Islands, and generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters that damaged dozens of homes in the South Pacific island chain, but authorities cancelled warnings for tsunamis on more distant coasts. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 8.0 quake struck at 01:12 GMT on Wednesday near the Santa Cruz Islands,.. More

184265 06/02/2013
Lebanon issues warrant for Syrian spy chief

A Lebanese judge has issued arrest warrants for a top Syrian intelligence official and his aide for their alleged involvement in a bombing plot in Lebanon, judicial officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said Brigadier General Ali Mamlouk is accused of being involved with Lebanon's former information.. More

184243 05/02/2013
Israel arrests Hamas lawmakers in West Bank

Israel arrested 23 Hamas members in the occupied West Bank on Monday, some of them lawmakers, according to the group and the Israeli army. Hamas said in a statement that the three lawmakers - Ahmed Attoun, Hatem Qafisha and Mohammed al-Talhad - had been detained in the early hours of the morning, as well as several local Hamas leaders. "It is.. More

184241 05/02/2013
Israelis evict Palestinian protest camp

Israeli authorities have fired tear gas and violently evicted Palestinians and activists who were setting up a protest camp near an Occupied West Bank village. An AFP correspondent said the army used tear gas and violence to remove hundreds of people who had set up four temporary huts and three tents near Burin, south of Nablus, in the northern Occupied.. More

184211 03/02/2013

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