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By , on May 17th, 2013 The UN’s refugee agency says that more than 1.5m people have fled the conflict in Syria, and warns the total is likely to be far higher.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: bomb strikes a Sunni area in Baghdad, raising overall daily death toll to 58. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two prominent Saudi princes are involved in a London-registered company that supposedly facilitated “money laundering” for Hezbollah in Lebanon and helped smuggle precious stones out of Congo, according to allegations in court documents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two bombs near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killed 38 people and wounded 55 on Friday, police and a doctor said, after two days of attacks targeting Iraqi Shiites in which dozens died. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, the sources said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say bomb at Sunni mosque in central Iraq kills 23. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian rebel authorities have vowed to punish a fighter who was shown in a gruesome video apparently cutting out and eating the internal organs of a government soldier. The incident has highlighted war crimes allegations against the opposition and put the rebel leadership and its backers on the defensive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters on Wednesday after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to result in President Bashar al-Assad’s forces regaining control of an international transit route, opposition sources said. The fall of Khirbet Ghazaleh, situated in the Hauran Plain on the highway to Jordan, came after a Jordanian-backed Syrian opposition military council failed to supply weapons to the town’s defenders. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bombs killed 17 people and wounded dozens more including an election candidate in Pakistan on Tuesday, raising to more than 100 the death toll from attacks on the campaign for Saturday’s polls. The attacks took place in the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and in the northwestern district of Dir, where Pakistani troops crushed a Taliban-led insurgency in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb tore through a Pakistan political rally on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks of the campaign for Pakistan’s historic elections on Saturday. The killings bring to 83 the number of people killed in such attacks since April 11, according to an AFP tally. The device targeted the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), a religious party in the outgoing government coalition. It exploded in Kurram, part of Pakistan’s Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against escalating a fraught situation in Syria after Israel struck targets near Damascus on Sunday, targeting what its officials said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. Israeli officials said the raid, the second in 48 hours, was not connected to Syria’s civil war. It was aimed, rather, at stopping Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel followed through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The blasts occurred a day after an Israeli official said his country had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria. The research centre hit on Sunday was also targeted by Israel in January. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Syria blames Israel for rocket strikes on army research centre
By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli warplanes have targeted a Syrian weapons shipment headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, media quoted US officials as saying on Saturday, as Sunnis were fleeing a city for fear of a massacre. The news came as US President Barack Obama, under mounting criticism that he has allowed Bashar al-Assad’s regime to cross his own declared “red line” on using chemical weapons, came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five car bombs exploded yesterday in public areas in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens. The blasts come amid a week-long spike in sectarian violence following clashes at a Sunni protest camp in the north of the country. No one has claimed responsibility, but co-ordinated bombings in civilian areas are a favourite strategy used by al-Qaeda in Iraq. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TIM ARANGO, on April 28th, 2013 All but one of the channels are aligned with Sunni financial backers, and the Iraqi government said the channels were inciting sectarian conflict.
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 46-year-old, one of the European Union’s youngest prime ministers, is then expected to unveil his programme in a parliamentary session on Monday, before the government is put to a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TIM ARANGO, on April 24th, 2013 Iraqi soldiers opened fire from helicopters on Sunni gunmen hiding in a village in what seemed to mark a new phase for a conflict that represents a challenge to the Shiite-led government.
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By Eli Lake, on April 23rd, 2013 Operatives of the Sunni terror group inside the Shia state gave guidance to a Western terror plot, reports Eli Lake.
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By By TIM ARANGO, on April 23rd, 2013 An attack on a Sunni protest encampment in a village near the northern city of Kirkuk raised the stakes sharply in Iraq’s sectarian troubles.
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‘More than 1.5m’ Syrian refugees
The UN’s refugee agency says that more than 1.5m people have fled the conflict in Syria, and warns the total is likely to be far higher.
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