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British band Massive Attack dedicated Tuesday’s performance in the Lebanese city of Byblos, their only concert in the Middle East, to the children in Gaza, and openly condemned Israel’s “massacre” of Palestinians. The band played in the city, only a few hundred kilometers to the north of Gaza, as music-lovers swayed all night holding up Palestinian flags. In an interview …

Late on Tuesday, suicide bombers invaded two mosques in the state of Yobe in Nigeria, killing six people and injuring many others, witnesses said. The attack has been blamed on Boko Haram, although the terrorist group has not yet claimed responsibility for it. The first explosion hit an open air Shi’ite mosque in the Dogo Tebo region in the town …

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, on Tuesday said that a potential truce deal with Israel must incorporate an end to Israeli “aggression” and lift the blockade of Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll from 22 days of Israeli strikes rose to 1,210. “We don’t accept any condition of ceasefire. There is no ceasefire without the stop of the …

A fuel depot near Tripoli airport continued to burn for the third consecutive day on Tuesday while a paramilitary warplane crashed in the city of Benghazi during clashes with militants. General Sagr al-Jerouchi, chief of air operations for rebel ex-general Khalifa Haftar, said that it is not immediately clear if the fighter jet suffered a malfunction or was hit by …

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed bids to bring peace in Gaza coupled with the waning influence of the United States in global affairs seem to be hampering a ceasefire bid in Gaza, but the US still remains the single global power capable of mediating a peace deal right now. According to analysts, an unfortunate power vacuum in the …

Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused Israel of “genocide” and called on the Muslim world to arm Palestinians battling “the Zionist regime”. In a speech that marked the festival of Eid al-Fitr, Iran’s supreme leader said that Israel was behaving like a “rabid dog” and a “wild wolf” in acts which are causing a humanitarian crisis …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said that he would be “glad” to return the Profile of Courage award given to him in 2004 by the American Jewish Congress, Turkey’s embassy in the US said on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over Erdogan’s remarks on Israel. It is not clear when and how the award will be returned. The …

Syrian rebels on continued their advance in the province of Hama and tried to destroy the regime’s military airport in the region, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. “The rebels are now nine kilometers (six miles) away from Hama military airport, which they want to put out of action”, the monitor’s director Rami Abdel Rahman said. Yusef …

Several children were among those killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza on Monday, bringing the Palestinian death toll due to Israel’s military operation in the Palestinian enclave over the past 21 days to 1,060. Three children and seven others were killed by Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. The children, and two others, were …

The Iraqi army raided several insurgent targets on Monday in the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, some 60 kilometers to the southwest of Baghdad, on Monday, killing 17 people, including 3 civilians, during the raids. According to local tribal sources, the raid targeted that Fadhiyya district at 01:00 a.m. local time, and a child and two women were among those killed …