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Syria warns of chemical attack on “invaders”
Syria has said it will not use chemical and biological weapons against Syrians but would use them against foreign "aggression". At a news conference in Damascus on Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said that Syria was in "self-defense" mode but ruled out use of the weapons even against opposition fighting President.. More -
Egypt eases Palestinian border restrictions
Egypt is allowing freer temporary entry for Palestinians into the country through the Rafah border crossing in an unprecedented move to ease long-imposed travel restrictions, particularly on Gazans - however, not everyone agrees the measures will go far enough. Until now, any Palestinian under 40 was escorted by security agents to or from the Gaza.. More -
Spate of deadly attacks across Iraq
A series of gun and bomb attacks has racked Iraq for the second straight day, with unidentified gunmen targeting a military base and car bombs exploding in Baghdad, Kirkuk and elsewhere. More than 100 people are reported to have been killed and 180 injured in at least 19 separate explosions and attacks on Monday morning, officials said. At least 15.. More -
Saudi Arabia calls for special Islamic summit
Saudi Arabia has called for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders next month to address the risks of "sedition" threatening Muslim countries. King Abdullah has called for "an extraordinary Islamic solidarity meeting to ensure... unity during this delicate time as the Muslim world faces dangers of fragmentation and sedition,".. More -
Arab nations urge Assad to quit as fighting rages
Arab nations have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to swiftly give up power as his troops launched a fresh assault in Damascus and the second city Aleppo. Fighting raged Sunday despite claims by the Free Syrian Army that Assad's regime was "collapsing". In a joint statement issued early Monday after their meeting in Doha, Arab.. More -
Deadly bomb attacks hit Iraqi towns
Bomb attacks in several Iraqi towns have left at least 16 people dead and 50 others injured, in one of the most violent days in the past two weeks. Two parked car bombs exploded near an entrance of a public market in Mahmodiya, a town 30km south of Baghdad, and another exploded close to the town's police station resulting in the killing of five people.. More -
Sudan denies bombing South Sudan village
Sudan is denying that its war planes have bombed a village in neighboring South Sudan. Sudan's SUNA state news agency quotes government spokesman Omar Dahab as saying Sudanese aircraft targeted only the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement inside Sudan. He says that Khartoum had warned Juba that the rebel forces were in South Sudan planning.. More -
Israel frees senior Hamas official
Aziz Dweik, a senior Hamas leader and the speaker of the Palestinian Parliament, has been released by Israel after months of detention without charge. "Dr Aziz Dweik was released at the Beit Sira roadblock," in the occupied West Bank, the head of his office, Bahaa Yusef, told AFP on Thursday. Israel Prison Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman.. More -
Syria fighting spreads to Aleppo
Syrian troops and armored vehicles have pushed into a revolution-held district of Aleppo and struck back in the capital, Damascus, against fighters emboldened by a bomb attack that killed top officials of President Bashar al-Assad's government. Opposition activists in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and a northern commercial hub, said that hundreds of.. More -
Egypt's former spy chief Omar Suleiman dies
Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former vice president and long-time spy chief to deposed president Hosni Mubarak, has died in the US, the official MENA news agency has reported. He was 76. "Former vice president General Omar Suleiman died in the early hours of Thursday in a hospital in the United States," the agency said. "He was undergoing.. More -
Taliban claim attack on NATO fuel tankers
A bomb attack claimed by the Taliban has destroyed 22 fuel tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials have said. "At 2am the mujahideen attacked the invader NATO trucks," the Taliban said in a statement on Wednesday. A magnetic bomb stuck to the side of a truck triggered a series of powerful explosions in what.. More -
Damascus blast 'kills' top Assad officials
Syria's defense minister and interior minister are among those killed after an explosion struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials, state media have reported. Defense Minister General Rajha and his deputy, Assef Shawkat, the brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad, were.. More -
Syrian battles rage in capital
Syrian revolution fighters said they shot down an army helicopter on Tuesday as they battled government forces backed by air power and artillery in the fiercest fighting to hit Damascus since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad erupted last year. Revolution officers said thousands of fighters had converged on the capital, a government stronghold.. More -
Watchdog says Israel 'legalizes' another settler outpost
Israel's settlement watchdog on Monday accused the government of quietly legalizing an unauthorized settlement outpost in the Jordan Valley in a move likely to spark international criticism. Peace Now said the defense ministry had granted tacit approval to a wildcat outpost called Givat Salit at the northern tip of the Jordan Valley. "In the.. More -
Palestinians visit jailed relatives in Israel
A group of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have spent half an hour visiting relatives held in Israeli prisons for the first time in five years. Sivan Weizman, Israeli prison services spokeswoman, confirmed on Monday that the visit was completed "without incident", and that such trips were now expected to resume on a regular basis, with the.. More
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