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Israel decries US 'support' for Palestinians
Israel's prime minister has said that he is "deeply troubled" by the United States' decision to maintain relations with the new Palestinian unity government, urging Washington to tell the Palestinian president that his alliance with Hamas is unacceptable. Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday reflect the Israeli government’s.. More -
Syrian election vote counting begins
Election officials began counting votes in Syria's presidential election early on Wednesday as polls closed in government-held areas. State-run media reported that voting closed at midnight and that officials began the process of checking the number of votes against lists of registered voters to ensure the numbers matched. Syrians on Tuesday voted.. More -
Ukraine separatists lay siege to Luhansk base
Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels have fought fierce gun battles around Luhansk, with hundreds of rebels attacking a border guard base and Ukraine responding with air raids on rebel positions. Pro-Russian separatists claimed on Monday that at least five people were killed and eight were wounded when Ukrainian jets dropped bombs on a government.. More -
Syria rebels step up attacks before election
At least 54 people have been killed in three days as rebels stepped up attacks on government-held areas in Aleppo in the run-up to Tuesday presidential election, a monitoring group has said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four people were killed on Monday by rebel mortar bomb and rocket fire on government strongholds in Aleppo,.. More -
Syrians head to the polls for 'farcical' vote
Syrians are to vote on Tuesday in a presidential poll that Bashar al-Assad is all but certain to win, but which the opposition has slammed as a "farce" that will prolong the country's three-year war. The controversial vote will be Syria's first election in nearly 50 years, with Assad and his father Hafez renewing their mandates in successive.. More -
Taliban five arrive in Qatar after swap deal
Five Taliban leaders have arrived in Qatar after being freed from Guantanamo Bay in a swap deal for a US soldier held in Afghanistan for nearly five years. The prisoners were flown by US military C-17 aircraft into the Gulf on Sunday. They were named on Saturday as Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mohammed Nabi, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Abdul.. More -
Ukraine and Russia in gas "crunch" talks
Ukraine and Russia are to enter crunch talks on Monday to settle a long-running dispute over the price of gas deliveries. Ukraine's third "gas war" with Russia in less than a decade erupted when Moscow - stunned by the sudden ouster of an ally who had just rejected a European Union alliance that the Kremlin greatly feared - nearly doubled.. More -
US confirms Syria suicide bomber was American
An American fighting for a rebel group in Syria carried out a deadly suicide bombing in the first such case in the war, US officials have said. "The American citizen involved in the suicide bombing in Syria is believed to be Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha," the US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday. The statement.. More -
Syrian troops hit in Aleppo tunnel bombing
Rebels in Syria claim to have killed up to 40 government soldiers in Aleppo by tunneling under their positions and setting off an underground bomb. The Islamic Front, an alliance of rebel brigades, said on Saturday it had dug the tunnel and set off the explosives. The rebel group posted a video to Twitter of the explosion, saying it killed at least.. More -
Police use tear gas on Turkey protesters
Police have used tear gas in Istanbul and water cannon in Ankara to disperse protesters seeking to mark the first anniversary of anti-government demonstrations in the country. Police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators near Istanbul's Taksim Square, which was the center-point in last year's protests. The AFP news agency reported that riot police.. More -
Egyptians protest after Sisi ‘election victory’
Protests have been taking place in cities across Egypt, days after the country elected former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi its president in a vote his sole contender has appealed. On Friday, demonstrators took to the streets in the capital Cairo, Bani Suef and Fayoum, holding banners with photos of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi and chanting.. More -
Russia warns of 'fratricidal war' in Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that the Ukrainian people were "in essence being pushed into the abyss of fratricidal war", as government forces step up their operation against pro-Russian armed groups in the eastern region. His statement came as Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk called on Russia to block the border.. More -
Libyan warplanes hit Benghazi bases
Libyan warplanes have bombed bases of armed groups in Benghazi as part of a self-declared campaign by a renegade former general to purge the North African country of religious hardline militias. A Reuters witness and an air force official in Benghazi said two jets bombed a base belonging to the February 17th Brigade, one of the armed groups operating.. More -
Sisi headed for big win in Egypt election
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former Egyptian army chief, is on course for a sweeping victory in the country's presidential election, early provisional results suggested. Sisi won 96.2 percent of about 21 million votes cast, state television reported early on Thursday, with the ballots from 312 of 352 counting stations tallied. Hamdeen Sabahi, the.. More -
Palestinians 'to unveil unity government'
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to unveil a unity government by Thursday, ending seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza, an official has said. "We have finished consultations on the national consensus government," Azzam al-Ahmed, an envoy from Abbas's Fatah movement, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday after.. More
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