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  • Gaza ceasefire sets stage for Cairo talks

    A 72-hour truce took hold in Gaza on Tuesday as Israel withdrew troops following four weeks of bitter fighting and Palestinians ventured out to find scenes of destruction. The guns fell silent after 29 days of fighting, bringing an end to the bloodshed that killed at least 1,867 Palestinians and 67 people in Israel. Officials on both sides confirmed.. More

  • S Sudan peace talks resume as famine looms

    South Sudan government negotiators and rebel representatives have met for a fifth round of peace talks since fighting broke out in the world's newest country in December. As delegates gathered for talks in neighboring Ethiopia on Monday, rampaging armed forces in South Sudan's Upper Nile state battled deserting soldiers for a second day. Peace talks.. More

  • Israel and Palestinians agree 72-hour truce

    Israel and the Palestinian factions, including Gaza's Hamas, have agreed to an Egyptian proposal for a three-day ceasefire as global pressure on Israel grows over mounting civilian deaths. As well as brokering the truce - which is to begin at 0500 GMT on Tuesday - the Egyptian government invited Israel and the Palestinians to attend indirect talks.. More

  • Turkey's PM blames Israel for violating Gaza ceasefire

    Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire by breaching law and agreements, Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. "The world has barely started to be concerned about Gaza after 1,500 people were killed, hundreds of children lost their lives," Erdogan said during an election rally in the northwestern.. More

  • Israeli PM vows to keep up Gaza operation

    In a press conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday, Netanyahu said the Israeli army "will act and continue to act" according to the country's security needs, adding that Hamas will pay "intolerable price" should there be more attacks. He also vowed to find the missing Israeli soldier 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, saying "it does not matter.. More

  • 116 killed by Syrian regime forces during Eid

    The dead included 37 women and children, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights At least 116 people were killed by regime forces in fighting across Syria during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, opposition activists have said. The deaths included 21 children and 16 women, according to the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights. According.. More

  • US supplies Israel with bombs amid Gaza blitz

    The United States has allowed Israel, waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, to tap a local US arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary, has said. The munitions were located inside Israel as part of a program managed by the US military and called War Reserves.. More

  • US supplies Israel with bombs amid Gaza blitz

    The United States has allowed Israel, waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, to tap a local US arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary, has said. The munitions were located inside Israel as part of a program managed by the US military and called War Reserves.. More

  • Palestinian medics uncover 75 Gazans, death toll soars to 975

    Palestinian medics recovered 75 bodies from under the rubble of homes in the Gaza Strip as a 12-hour humanitarian truce took effect on Saturday. "Seventy-five bodies were retrieved in the Gaza Strip," Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told AA. He said 21 bodies were uncovered in the southern Khan Younis city, 29 in eastern border.. More

  • 12-hour truce comes into force in Gaza

    A 12-hour ceasefire came into force between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip at 8am (05:00 GMT) on Saturday, the 19th day of the Israeli aggression that has killed at least 900 people. Israel and the Palestinian armed group said they would observe the temporary UN-mediated ceasefire, after US Secretary of State John Kerry was unable to reach a lasting.. More

  • Hamas rejects Gaza truce unless blockade ends

    Hamas has rejected a ceasefire to end the 16-day offensive against Gaza unless Israel ends its blockade of the strip, its leader Khaled Meshaal has said. "We reject today ... and will reject in the future" a ceasefire before negotiations on Hamas' demands, which include lifting years of blockade against the Palestinian enclave, Meshaal told.. More

  • UN to investigate Israel's Gaza offensive

    At least 25 people, including three children, have been killed in bombardment by the Israeli military on the Gaza trip, just a day after the UN Human Rights Council voted to launch an inquiry into Israel's alleged violations of international laws in its military offensive against the coastal enclave. Most of Thursday's casualties were reported in.. More

  • Turkey arrests policemen for 'spying'

    Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of senior police officers on suspicion of illegally eavesdropping on top officials, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish prosecutors have said. A total of 67 serving and former top police officers were arrested as part of two probes, prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday. Most of the.. More

  • Kerry urges Hamas to accept Gaza truce offer

    US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the Palestinian group, Hamas, to accept a ceasefire along the lines of an Egyptian proposal, to end the raging Gaza conflict that has already killed at least 635 Palestinians and 31 Israelis. The top US diplomat spoke in Cairo on Tuesday after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose government.. More

  • Deaths as Israeli tanks shell Gaza hospital

    Israeli tanks have shelled a hospital in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least five people and wounding at least another 50. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Dekker, reporting from Gaza, said according to early reports the third floor of the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah had been hit by at least three tank shells on Monday. There was no let-up in the.. More