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Syrian rebel groups, including the Al-Nusra Front, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, on Wednesday took over the Syrian border crossing with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for human rights said. “Al-Nusra Front and other rebel groups took the Quneitra crossing, and heavy fighting with the Syrian army is continuing in the surrounding area”, Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the …

Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 31 Palestinians and wounded 120 others on Wednesday, after the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel had ended a day earlier. The infant son and wife of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif were among those killed in an Israeli strike which leveled a six-story building in Gaza city, Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for …

Article and photos by Mohammed Omer in Gaza July 9, 2014: I am writing this as ambulance and rescue crews continue to search for bodies. Among the ones they have uncovered so far are those of 4-year-old Mohammed Nawasra, whose body was found underneath the ruins of his home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, his …

On Thursday, Israel deployed additional troops on the Gaza border after Palestinian rocket fire heightened tensions following the alleged revenge killing of a Palestinian teen in Jerusalem. “We are moving and we have moved forces in order to serve defense activities and forward preparation, but we have no interest in escalation”,Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, spokesman for the Israeli army, said. …

The United Nations on Tuesday said that over a thousand people have been killed so far this month in the militant sweep through western and northern Iraq, and that more than 75% of them civilians. At least 1,075 people have been killed, with 658 others injured by the violence in Iraq from June 5th to June 22nd, Rupert Colville, spokesman …