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Saudi Arabia: top Shiite cleric sentenced to death

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Prominent Saudi Shiite cleric and anti-government protester Nimr al-Nimr was condemned to death by a Saudi court on Wednesday on charges of sedition. He has been on trial since March 2013. According to his family, Nimr, who was one of the leaders in the protests against Sunni authorities in 2011 and Shiite protests in neighbor Bahrain, was convicted of seeking …

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Libya: militia chief and sixteen others killed near Benghazi

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Seventeen people, including a militia chief and several soldiers, were killed in fighting near the Benghazi airport this week, military and medical sources said on Thursday. Libya has been in turmoil since the toppling of longtime dictator Muammar Gadhafi in 2011, and the interim authorities have since been facing the powerful militiamenwho had toppledGadhafi. Salim Nabbous, commander of the Shura …

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Yemen: Blasts kill several dozens of rebel supporters

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A powerful suicide blast in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Thursday killed at least 47 people, plunging the violence-plagued nation into additional turmoil after weeks of political gridlock. Over dozens were wounded in the bombing at Al-Tahrir square, targeting a gathering of Shi’ite insurgent supporters. In a separate suicide attack in the country’s southeast, 20 Yemeni soldiers were killed by …

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Syria: coalition raids causes IS extremists to withdraw from parts of Kobane

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Militants from the Islamic State (IS) launched a new offensive in the eastern part of Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane after withdrawing from parts of the town following US-led air strikes. “There are fierce clashes underway in the east of Ain al-Arab (Kobane) after the Islamic State launched an offensive to retake the areas it lost control of”, Rami …

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Turkey: 14 killed in pro-Kobane riots

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Several pro-Kurdish demonstrations took place across Turkey on Wednesday as people were enraged over their government’s lack of action regarding the Syrian Kurdish border town Kobane. According to government officials, at least 14 people were killed in the protests. The violence was mostly in the pre-dominantly Kurdish southeast but also flared up in Ankara, Istanbul and other cities, where protestors …

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Libyan PM says Egypt will help train Libyan army

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thanion Wednesday said that Egypt will help train the Libyan army, and then called on his compatriots to fight the militia that has overrun parts of the country. Thani and most of the parliament elected in June are virtually in domestic exile in the city of Tobruk because of extensive security problems in capital city Tripoli, …

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Pakistan: US drone strikes kill four militants

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A US drone strike in the restive tribal region in Pakistan near the Afghani border killed at least four militants on Monday.  The attack happened at 20:15 GMT in Mangrotai in Shawal district, South Waziristan – the region is considered to be a Taliban stronghold. “A U.S. drone fired two missiles targeting a center run by Uzbek rebels, killing four …

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Syria: 20 extremists killed in attempt to seize Kobane

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Twenty extremists from radical group Islamic State (IS) on Sunday night were killed when they tried to occupy Syrian Kurdish border town Kobane, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said. According to the monitor, the extremists were killed by Kurdish fighters belonging to the People’s Protection Units when they tried to enter an eastern neighborhood of Kobane. The Kurdish militia …

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Iraq: Extremists attack and ensuing clashes cause over 50 deaths

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Extremist group Islamic State (IS) on Thursday attacked Iraqi bases in two towns in western Iraq, leaving over 40 extremists and 17 security force personnel dead, medical and security sources said. Four soldiers and seven policemen were killed when IS militants attacked police headquarters of the town of Heet, while another six security force members were killed in an attack …

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Syria: at least 30 children killed in school bombing

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On Wednesday, over 30 Syrian school-going children were killed in a double bombing carried out by a lone assailant in regime-controlled city Homs, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said. The monitor said that at least 39 people had died in the attack on a school in the Akrameh neighborhood of Homs. “At least 30 children were among 39 people …

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