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  • Israel fires back after Syria rockets hit Golan Heights

    At least two rockets fired from Syria have hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region, prompting Israeli forces to return fire, the army said. Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner said on Tuesday that the Syrian fire was "intentional, not spillover from the Syrian civil war" as has sometimes been the case in the past. Authorities evacuated.. More

  • Israel to expand West Bank Jewish settlement

    Israel's Housing and Construction Ministry has earmarked $215,000 for the expansion of a Jewish-only settlement in the southern West Bank. The ministry has allocated 850,000 Israeli shekels (roughly $215,000) to the expansion of the West Bank's Efrat settlement, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The decision was made last October "despite.. More

  • Sons of Egypt's Mubarak leave Cairo prison

    The two sons of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were released from prison nearly four years after they were first arrested along with their father, authorities say. Security officials said the two, businessman Alaa and Mubarak's one-time heir apparent Gamal, walked free from Torah Prison in a southern Cairo suburb on Monday and headed to their.. More

  • Libyan talks get off to positive start in Geneva

    A new round of peace talks between Libya's warring factions has kicked off in Geneva with all parties showing a "constructive spirit", the United Nations has said. "I am confident that Libyans participating and those who hopefully will join the talks have a very clear determination to reach an agreement, to pacify the country and to.. More

  • Protest deaths mark anniversary of Egyptian uprising

    At least 20 people have been killed in protests held across Egypt as the country marked the fraught anniversary of its 2011 popular uprising. In demonstrations across the country on Sunday, protesters were killed in Cairo, the El-Matariya district just north of Cairo, Damanhur, Alexandria and in Giza. A security conscript was also killed in the El-Matariya.. More

  • Ennahda to vote against new Tunisian government

    Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party has said it will reject a government proposed by prime minister-designate Habib Essid. Parliament will vote this week to confirm a new cabinet that must tackle economic reforms and fighting groups to consolidate Tunisia's young democracy after its 2011 uprising against Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Last week, Essid said.. More

  • Iran foreign minister summoned over walk with Kerry

    Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has been summoned before parliament to explain his recent public stroll with US Secretary of State John Kerry, according to a report by the country's official IRNA news agency. On January 14, on the sidelines of ongoing nuclear negotiations, Zarif took a 15-minute walk through the streets of Geneva with Kerry. Now,.. More

  • Turkish president denounces attacks against Islam

    Turkey's president has denounced attacks on the Muslim world during his visit in Djibouti. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments came during a joint press conference Saturday with Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh. "There are serious games being played with the Islamic world and one of them is Islamophobia," said Erdogan... More

  • Thousands stage anti-Houthi protests across Yemen

    Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets on Saturday in the biggest demonstrations yet against the Houthi group that dominates the country, two days after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's resignation left the country in political limbo. Houthi gunmen shot and wounded four people at a protest in the Red Sea port of Hodeida, residents said. In Sanaa,.. More

  • Leaders travel to Saudi Arabia to pay respects to king

    One after another, foreign aircraft landed on Saturday at a Riyadh military base where leaders from Africa, Europe and Asia were welcomed by Saudi officials. Follow Al Jazeera's coverage Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, made a rare visit to the regional rival, followed by French President Francois Hollande, Afghanistan President Ashraf.. More

  • Rocket fire falls on strategic city in east Ukraine

    Almost all of the 21 Sudanese opposition parties that were participating in a year-long national dialogue will pull out of the talks, as well as upcoming elections, in the latest sign of deteriorating reconciliation efforts, party representatives have said. Eighteen opposition parties will not attend a national dialogue meeting with the president on.. More

  • Rebels attack key port, Ukraine says at least 30 dead

    Pro-Russian rebels launched an offensive against the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, prompting the European Union's foreign policy chief to warn of a further "grave deterioration" in EU-Russian relations. Mariupol's city administration said the rebels had killed at least 30 people and injured 83 others in the offensive.. More

  • Yemen's president and Houthis reach agreement

    Yemen's embattled president has reached an agreement with Houthi rebels to end a violent standoff in the capital, Sanaa. The Shia rebels agreed on Wednesday to withdraw from areas overlooking the presidential palace and the private compound of the President, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, after receiving assurances of constitutional change and power-sharing. In.. More

  • Houthis take over Yemen presidential palace

    Houthi fighters have taken full control of Yemen's presidential palace in the capital Sanaa after a brief clash with the compound's security guards, witnesses and security sources say. The development came a day after the parties in the ongoing conflict in the Arabian Peninsula country said at two separate times they had agreed to a ceasefire. The.. More

  • Sudan opposition to boycott national dialogue

    Almost all of the 21 Sudanese opposition parties that were participating in a year-long national dialogue will pull out of the talks, as well as upcoming elections, in the latest sign of deteriorating reconciliation efforts, party representatives have said. Eighteen opposition parties will not attend a national dialogue meeting with the president on.. More

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