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Israel defence chief claims Palestinian grief not equal

Feb 24, 2016 (AFP)

Israel's defence minister has accused Palestinians of not mourning their dead as much as Jews, wading into a debate on Palestinian grief amid a wave of violence...

Yemen's Hadi appoints top general in bid to rally tribes

Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)

Yemen's president has appointed a veteran general as armed forces deputy commander in a bid to rally support from tribes and troops in the rebel-held Sanaa regi...

Israeli soldiers ordered to take guns home when off duty

Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)

Israeli soldiers have been ordered to take their guns with them when off duty to allow them to intervene in the event of Palestinian attack, the military said o...

Saudi Arabia urges citizens to leave Lebanon

Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave, after Riyadh halted a $3 billion programme funding military supplies to Beirut in response to "h...

Germany mulling military training mission in Tunisia: report

Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)

Germany is considering sending troops to Tunisia to help train soldiers in the fight against the Islamic State group, a newspaper report said on Sunday. Bild am...

Netanyahu backs army chief in row over use of deadly force

Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his army chief on Sunday after his comments on the use of force against young Palestinian attackers drew righ...

France remembers Battle of Verdun, symbol of suffering and resistance

Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)

France remembered the horror of the Battle of Verdun on Sunday, exactly 100 years on from the first shots fired in World War I's longest battle, which became a ...

Colombian army kills seven guerrillas amid rising tension

Feb 20, 2016 (AFP)

The Colombian military has killed seven leftist guerrillas and captured an eighth in an operation near the Venezuelan border, President Juan Manuel Santos said ...

US air strike on Libya kills two abducted Serbians

Feb 20, 2016 (AFP)

A US air strike in Libya believed to have killed an Islamic State group operative behind the mass murder of tourists on a Tunisian beach also killed two kidnapp...

Despite deadly strike, US wary of Libya engagement: experts

Feb 19, 2016 (AFP)

The US bombardment of an Islamic State camp in Libya dramatically highlights Washington's resolve to hunt the jihadists beyond their Syrian and Iraqi stronghold...

Saudi halts $3 bn in aid to Lebanon army: official

Feb 19, 2016 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia said Friday it has halted a $3 billion programme for military supplies to Lebanon in protest against Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group fighting ...

Saudi says Syrian rebels should receive anti-aircraft missiles

Feb 19, 2016 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Syrian moderate rebels should be armed with surface-to-air missiles against the Russian-backed Assad regime, a German news ...

Pentagon tells Russia where US commandos are based in Syria

Feb 18, 2016 (AFP)

The Pentagon has asked Russia to stay away from parts of northern Syria where US special operations forces are training local fighters to combat the Islamic Sta...

Israel army chief warns troops to use only 'necessary' force

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

Israel's top soldier has warned his troops not to use excessive firepower in combating a wave of Palestinian violence in which many youthful attackers have died...

Kremlin denies Russian strikes on Syria hospitals

Feb 16, 2016 (AFP)

Russia on Tuesday denied bombing hospitals in northern Syria, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling such accusations "unsubstantiated." "Once again, we c...

Syrian hospital strikes kill 50, cast doubt on ceasefire hopes

Feb 16, 2016 (AFP)

Hopes for a ceasefire in Syria were fading on Tuesday, after dozens were killed in air strikes on hospitals that France branded war crimes and Syria's president...

Syria cessation of hostilities a 'test' for Russia: Pentagon

Feb 16, 2016 (AFP)

The Pentagon said Tuesday it would respond "as necessary" if there were violations of a cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria, warning it was a "test" for...

UN, US condemn Syria air strikes as 'almost 50 civilians' killed

Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)

The United Nations and Washington on Monday condemned air strikes on medical facilities and schools in Syria that the world body said killed almost 50 civilians...

Turkey air force in joint exercises with Saudi Arabia: army

Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)

Turkey's air force on Monday began five days of air defence exercises with Saudi Arabia, the Turkish military said, as the two countries forge an increasingly t...

Poland says could send F-16s to fight IS

Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)

NATO member Poland is ready to send four F-16 warplanes to fight the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, a senior defence official said Monday. The move came...