[23 Dec 2013] Mortar attack kill 4 officers, 2 soldiers near Baghdad -...
At least eight people have been killed in mortar shell attacks on an Iraqi army base west of the capital Baghdad.
Officials say four of the...
At least eight people have been killed in mortar shell attacks on an Iraqi army base west of the capital Baghdad.
Officials say four of the victims were army officers, including a brigade commander. Four soldiers were also killed in the attack, which took place in the Abu Ghraib area. Just two days ago, gunmen killed five senior officers and ten soldiers in the western province of Anbar. Violence has spiked in Iraq in 2013. Based on UN figures, at least eight-thousand people have lost their lives across the country this year alone.
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[29 Jan 2014] Palestinians strive to save villages from Israeli...
The Israeli high court has held its first session to determine the fate of two Palestinian villages which Israeli wants to divide and annex behind...
The Israeli high court has held its first session to determine the fate of two Palestinian villages which Israeli wants to divide and annex behind a controversial wall.
The proposed wall which has already sparked an international outcry will cut directly through the villages of Battir and Cremisan, isolating villagers from their rich agricultural lands. One of the villages to be most adversely affected is Battir, where the wall will cut through and destroy ancient Roman terraces, a castle, and a Roman irrigation system which the villagers still use to irrigate their crops. Christians from the village of Cremisan have been demonstrating on a weekly basis in the \'Tent of Nations\' which has attracted international support. Villagers here claim that the Israeli is trying to grab the lands that belong to 58 families. The Bethlehem municipality filed the petition in the high court. Israeli claims the separation wall will be built for the so-called security reasons. However, the Palestinians call is yet another excuse to seize their lands. Following years of petitioning to keep their land and agricultural resources intact, residents of Battir and Cremisan say they would wait for the court\'s decision. However, they pledge to keep fighting for their rights and say that even IF the ruling is not in their favor they will continue to pressurize Israel through international petitions.
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[30 Jan 2014] Israeli war jets launch 3 airstrikes on Gaza Strip,...
The Israeli military has launched three airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting the northern, southern, and eastern parts of the besieged...
The Israeli military has launched three airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting the northern, southern, and eastern parts of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Palestinian officials say three explosions were heard in the territory. Rescue teams and ambulances have rushed to the areas. At least 8 Palestinians have been injured in southern Gaza town of Rafah. Two Palestinians have also been injured in the north. Tel Aviv claims the air strikes were carried out in response to a rocket fired from Gaza. The Israeli military often targets Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which remains cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade.
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[02 Feb 2014] Iraqi security forces kill dozens of ISIL insurgents in...
Iraqi security forces continue operations against al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the restive west of the country.
Reports say some 50 militants of...
Iraqi security forces continue operations against al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the restive west of the country.
Reports say some 50 militants of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, have been killed in Anbar province. Anbar has been the scene of fighting between the Iraqi government forces and the I-S-I-L over the past weeks. The clashes have claimed many lives on both sides. A large number of Iraqi civilians have also been killed in bomb blasts and other terrorist attacks in recent months. The Iraqi government has blamed the attacks on the al-Qaeda-linked group and its regional supporters including Saudi Arabia.
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Israeli Soldiers Shoot Unarmed Palestinian-Bilin Protest - English
By Wael Elasady. This Friday the Israeli army opened fire with live ammunition on a local villager as the weekly Bilin Protest Wound down. Bilin a...
By Wael Elasady. This Friday the Israeli army opened fire with live ammunition on a local villager as the weekly Bilin Protest Wound down. Bilin a village of 1600 just west of Ramallah holds a weekly non violent protest against the Apartheid Wall and the expanding Israeli settlements that have swallowed up more than 50 percent of the villages land
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Syria President offers more freedoms after forces kill 37 - 24Mar2011 -...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/us-syria-idUSTRE72N2MC20110324.
President Bashar al-Assad made an unprecedented pledge of greater...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/us-syria-idUSTRE72N2MC20110324.
President Bashar al-Assad made an unprecedented pledge of greater freedom and more prosperity to Syrians Thursday as anger mounted following a crackdown on protesters that left at least 37 dead.
As an aide to Assad in Damascus read out a list of decrees, which included a possible end to 48 years of emergency rule, a human rights group said a leading pro-democracy activist, Mazen Darwish, had been arrested.
In the southern city of Deraa, a hospital official said at least 37 people had been killed there Wednesday when security forces opened fire on demonstrators inspired by uprisings across the Arab world that have shaken authoritarian leaders.
Announcing the sort of concessions that would have seemed almost unimaginable three months ago in Syria, Assad adviser Bouthaina Shaaban told a news conference the president had not himself ordered his forces to fire on protesters:
"I was a witness to the instructions of His Excellency that live ammunition should not be fired -- even if the police, security forces or officers of the status were being killed."
Assad, she said, would draft laws to provide for media freedoms and allow political movements other than the Baath party, which has ruled for half a century.
Assad, who succeed his late father Hafez al-Assed in 2000, had, Shaaban said, decreed the drafting of a law for political parties "to be presented for public debate" and would strive above all to raise living standards across the country.
She said another decree would look at "ending with great urgency the emergency law, along with issuing legislation that assures the security of the nation and its citizens."
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Security forces opened fire on hundreds of youths on the outskirts of Deraa Wednesday, witnesses said, after nearly a week of protests in which seven civilians had already died.
The main hospital in Deraa, in southern Syria near the Jordanian border, had received the bodies of at least 37 protesters killed Wednesday, a hospital official said.
Around 20,000 people marched Thursday in the funerals for nine of those killed, chanting freedom slogans and denying official accounts that infiltrators and "armed gangs" were behind the killings and violence in Deraa.
"Traitors do not kill their own people," they chanted. "God, Syria, Freedom. The blood of martyrs is not spilled in vain!"
As Syrian soldiers armed with automatic rifles roamed the streets of the southern city, residents emptied shops of basic goods and said they feared Assad's government was intent on crushing the revolt by force.
Assad, a close ally of Iran, key player in neighboring Lebanon and supporter of militant groups opposed to Israel, had earlier dismissed demands for reform in Syria, a country of 20 million people run by the Baath Party since a 1963 coup. Assad's father took personal in 1970.
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[16 July 2012] Palestinians rally to demand release of prisoners - English
[16 July 2012] Palestinians rally to demand release of prisoners - English
Palestinians in Gaza held a large rally in front of the office of the...
[16 July 2012] Palestinians rally to demand release of prisoners - English
Palestinians in Gaza held a large rally in front of the office of the international committee of the Red Cross.
They demanded the immediate release of all Palestinian prisoners, especially administrative detainees and those who have been on hunger strike for many weeks.
Among the protestors were former detainees who were released in a prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel in late 2011.
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[22 July 2012] Palestinian refugees face unjust situation during Ramadan...
[22 July 2012] Palestinian refugees face unjust situation during Ramadan - English
Since Israelis occupied Palestine in 1948, thousands of...
[22 July 2012] Palestinian refugees face unjust situation during Ramadan - English
Since Israelis occupied Palestine in 1948, thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their homes, and they found themselves living in refugee camps far away from their original towns and villages. In Ramadan, the situation gets more difficult for these people.
This story is not an exception, and it is similar to thousands of others. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), there are about five million Palestinian refugees. 1.2 million of them live in the besieged Gaza Strip under very hard humanitarian circumstances.
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[22 July 2012] Palestinians protest in solidarity with Muslim minority...
[22 July 2012] Palestinians protest in solidarity with Muslim minority in Myanmar - English
Palestinians in the Gaza strip held a protest in...
[22 July 2012] Palestinians protest in solidarity with Muslim minority in Myanmar - English
Palestinians in the Gaza strip held a protest in solidarity with Muslim minority in Myanmar.
The protest was organized by the Gaza Ministry of Endowment and the Palestinian Muslim clerics' foundation.
Protestors highly condemned what they described the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims by Buddhist monks.
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