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Israel clears soldiers in 2014 'Black Friday' Gaza assault
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
A military fact-finding mission into the "Black Friday" assault in which Amnesty says more than 130 Palestinian civilians died during the 2014 Gaza war showed t...
Venezuelan general, colonel arrested over 'attack' on Maduro
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
The arrests increased suspicions about possible divisions within the military, considered a bedrock of support for the widely unpopular president as Venezuela's...
40 children killed in Yemen bus strike: new Red Cross toll
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the Thursday strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, the Internation...
Sri Lanka arrests intel officer over killings
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
Lieutenant commander Sampath Hettiarachchi was wanted in connection with the abduction and illegal detention of 11 young men between 2008 and 2009, police said,...
Israeli defence minister says more Gaza violence inevitable
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
Lieberman said in a video statement distributed by his office that "the question is not to know if the next confrontation (with Hamas) will take place, but when...
Protests at funeral for Yemeni children killed in coalition strike
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
At least 29 children were among those killed in the air raid Thursday on a bus in a crowded market in Dahyan, Saada province, according to the International Com...
Yemen bus attack: doubts raised about Saudi probe
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
The raid last Thursday hit a bus at a crowded market in northern Yemen, killing the 29 children and injuring around 50 other people, according to a toll from th...
Vietnam communist war hero turned dissident Bui Tin dies aged 90
Aug 12, 2018 (AFP)
Bui Tin passed away of kidney failure in hospital in a Paris suburb early Saturday, his friend and a relative confirmed, after several weeks of declining health...
Syria, Russia expand heavy shelling of rebel Idlib: monitor
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
Idlib is the largest chunk of territory still in rebel hands, and President Bashar al-Assad has warned it would be his next target. The province's southwest was...
UN calls for credible probe of Yemen bus strike
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
The appeal followed the coalition's announcement that it had ordered a probe of Thursday's raid in the northern rebel stronghold of Saada. Britain's Ambassador ...
Palestinian shock after child killed, Israelis fear more rockets
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
Only kilometres away, Israelis who spent the night rushing to bomb shelters due to a barrage of rockets and mortars from the Palestinian enclave said they were ...
Hamas fighter killed as Israel strikes Gaza after rockets fired from enclave
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
Injuries were also reported on both sides. Smoke plumes could be seen rising from Gaza City following the military's announcement it was targeting "terror sites...
Philippines' Duterte urges peace in unveiling Muslim autonomy law
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
He delivered his words after handing a symbolic copy of the new law, which he signed last month, to the leader of the country's largest Muslim rebel group. It w...
Venezuela arrests 'terrorists' as opposition fears reprisals over attack
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
Interior and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol announced the arrests on state television, saying more could be on the way "in the coming hours." Three soldiers we...
Colombian army accuses ELN rebels as six people kidnapped
Aug 04, 2018 (AFP)
The six people were traveling in a boat on the river Arquia when they were "illegally detained by armed men wearing military uniforms," Colombia's army said. Th...
UN peacekeepers return to Golan after talks with Russia, Israel, Syria
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
Thursday's patrol at the Quneitra crossing point was the first since the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) withdrew in 2014 after Al-Qaeda-linked rebels o...
At least 20 dead in strikes on Yemen's Hodeida: medics
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
"The number of people killed in the two attacks has reached 20," a doctor in the Red Sea city told AFP, with other medical sources putting the number of wounded...
Israel says strike kills seven 'terrorists' in Golan
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
The rare incident came as Israel readied itself for Syria regaining complete control of the country's south near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A Syrian of...
'Victory is near,' Syria's Assad tells troops
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
Early last year, government forces held just 17 percent of national territory but a series of blistering offensives has since forced the rebels out of many of t...
UN envoy plans September talks on new Syria constitution
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
Staffan de Mistura, whose past efforts to push forward a Syrian peace deal have achieved no breakthroughs, was tasked with setting up the committee during a Rus...
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