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  • Al Jazeera's Greste arrives back home in Australia

    Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after more than a year in an Egyptian prison, has arrived back in his Australian homeland and called for the release of two colleagues still in custody. Greste, 49, was released on Sunday after 400 days in a Cairo jail and had been in Cyprus since. He had been sentenced to seven years on charges rejected.. More

  • Jordan vows to step up assault against ISIL

    Jordan has pledged to step up its role in the international coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after the armed group killed a captured Jordanian pilot. King Abdullah II vowed on Wednesday that his country will take more retaliatory action, after hanging two convicted Iraqis on death row - female would-be suicide bomber.. More

  • French govt. separating Muslim children from parents

    With increasing attacks on Muslims in France, Muslim children are now being taken away from their parents. The French media, especially, tends to focus on “radicalism” and “extremism” within the Muslim community and hardly touches on issues such as Islamophobia, racism and foreign policy. The French authorities, which are in.. More

  • Jordan responds to pilot's killing with executions

    Jordan has begun executing fighters on death row as part of an "earth-shattering" response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Just hours after a video emerged online on Tuesday purporting to show First-Lieutenant Moaz al-Kassasbeh engulfed in flames, a security official.. More

  • Yemen's main parties suspend talks with Houthi rebels

    UN-brokered talks aimed at resolving Yemen's political crisis appear to be falling apart after the country's main political parties suspended their participation in negotiations with Houthi rebels who control the capital, Sanaa. A senior Yemeni politician said on Monday that the parties had demanded that the parliament convene in order to consider.. More

  • Obama raises taxes for rich in new $4 trillion budget

    The US President has unveiled a $4 trillion budget for 2016 that will increase taxes on higher-income Americans and provide tax relief for the middle-class. President Barack Obama said his plans were "practical" and "not partisan," as Monday's tax hikes totaling $2 trillion were unveiled. Obama said his proposal would "help.. More

  • UN Gaza inquiry head to quit over Israeli claim of bias

    The head of a UN inquiry into last summer's conflict between Israel and Gaza has said he will resign after Israeli allegations of bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO]. In a letter to the commission, a copy of which was seen by the Reuters news agency, Canadian academic William Schabas said on Monday he.. More

  • Egypt releases Jazeera's jailed Peter Greste

    Australian journalist Peter Greste, an Al Jazeera reporter who has been jailed in Egypt for over a year, was released on Sunday after having received a ‘presidential pardon’, a security source has said. Greste has been released from prison and is currently at Cairo airport waiting for a plane for his native Australia, the official, requesting.. More

  • Tunisia's Ennahda to join coalition goverment

    Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda has agreed to join its main rival secular party Nidaa Tounes as part of a coalition government, Reuters news agency quoted party leaders as saying. The deal reached on Sunday came after Tunisian Prime Minister-designate Habib Essid's new cabinet faced a threat of rejection in parliament last week from key parties.. More

  • Palestinian killed by Israeli army in W. Bank

    The Israeli army killed a Palestinian man on Saturday after he threw a Molotov cocktail on an Israeli vehicle northern the West Bank, Israel's army radio has said. It added that army troops were also searching for another suspect in the attack on the Israeli vehicle. The Israeli army has not, however, officially commented on the report of the radio. Raed.. More

  • Ukraine peace talks break down amid acrimony

    Peace talks on Ukraine have broken up after more than four hours with Kiev's envoy accusing separatist envoys of undermining the meeting by making ultimatums and refusing to discuss plans for a ceasefire, according to reports. Ukraine's representative, former president Leonid Kuchma, was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that the two separatist.. More

  • Houthis 'beat and detain demonstrators' in Yemen

    Dozens of protesters marching in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, have been beaten back by Houthi rebels who control the capital, witnesses said. The rebels fired automatic rifles in the air and struck the anti-Houthi protesters with batons and knives, AP news agency reported on Wednesday. The witnesses said the rebels detained several protesters and journalists,.. More

  • Jordan offers prisoner swap to ISIL

    Jordan has offered a prisoner swap to the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in an attempt to save a Jordanian air force pilot who the fighters captured and have threatened to kill along with a Japanese hostage. Mohammed al-Momani, Jordanian government spokesperson, said on Wednesday that Jordan is ready to trade Sajida al-Rishawi,.. More

  • Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah missile attack

    Two Israeli soldiers have been killed by a Hezbollah missile fired at an Israeli military vehicle in the Shebaa farms area on the border with Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli military confirmed that seven soldiers were also injured in Wednesday's strike. In response to the attack, Israeli forces fired shells across the border into southern Lebanon,.. More

  • 12 years old child killed in Yemen

    A Yemeni rights group said on Tuesday a sixth grade student aged about 12 was killed in a U.S. drone strike east of the capital Sanaa, an assertion that could raise fresh concern over Washington's campaign against suspected militants. The group said Mohammed Saleh Qayed Taeiman was one of three people reported killed in Monday's drone strike. It said.. More