Suicide bomb outside US embassy in Ankara
Two people have been killed and several people wounded in an explosion, likely a suicide bomb, outside the US embassy in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Police claimed that a suicide bomber detonated a...
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Al-Qaeda threatens US and Europe, promises ‘earth-shattering’ attack
French troops patrol on January 30, 2013 along the Niger river in the northern city of Gao. (AFP Photo / Sia Kambou) A message posted on a jihadist website on Sunday promised that “terrible”...
Russia concern at Israeli ‘air strike’ on Syria
Russia has expressed concern at an alleged Israeli attack on Syria, saying such a strike would be an unacceptable violation of the UN Charter. Syria’s army said Israeli jets had targeted a military research...
Israeli airstrike targeted convoy of trucks inside Syria
Israel launched an airstrike inside Syria overnight near the border with Lebanon, according to U.S. and regional officials. The regional officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike...
Egypt is once again risking its future
Photo Credit: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (Reuters) – With violence sweeping Egypt’s cities and the economy lurching deeper into crisis, each passing day is adding new bricks to a wall of mistrust between the Islamist-led government of...
Israel hits target in Syria border area
(Reuters) – Israeli forces attacked a convoy on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, a Western diplomat and regional security sources said on Wednesday, as concern has grown in the Jewish state over the fate of...
Aide to Egyptian President Morsi claims Holocaust a US hoax
Photo Credit: (AP) HAIFA, Israel – A key figure in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s government called the Holocaust a hoax cooked up by U.S. intelligence operatives and claimed the 6 million Jews who were...
Britain to send forces to Mali as part of EU mission
Downing Street has said that the British government will dispatch 350 troops to Mali to aid French troops stationed in the country’s north, as part of a UK mission to train local forces and...
‘Hamas leader Mashaal seeking presidency of PLO’
‘Al-Quds Al-Arabi’ quotes Palestinian sources as saying Jordan and Qatar are pushing for Mashaal to chair PLO. Photo: Screenshot CNN Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is seeking to take over the presidency of the Palestinian...
French and Malian forces have retaken Timbuktu
French and Malian forces have retaken Timbuktu. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland is embedded with the troops. She reports from Timbuktu.
