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Fresh violence near the Kenyan coast has led to the deaths of at least 15 people, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Somali Shebab rebels killed almost 50 people in the same region. The al-Qaeda linked Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahideen said that its fighters executed the attack on a Kenyan village, and its commando unit had been able to return …

Militants in Mosul attacked the Turkish consulate in the city on Wednesday, kidnapping 48 people, one of whom was the head of the diplomatic mission. Only a day earlier, the Turkish consulate in Mosul said that members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had captured 28 Turkish truck drivers; it was on a day when jihadists, …

Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday said that Turkish authorities were “as abusive as ever” in their handling of protesters in the country. Only a year ago, allanti-government demonstrations in the country were brutally crushed by the government. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said, “The Turkish authorities have been relentless in their crackdown on protesters — be it …

On Sunday, international advocacy group Human Rights Watch said that Palestinian Authorities are yet to take action and investigate on an assault by Palestinian security forces in April, having brought charges against the four victims. The organization said that several witness had given consistent accounts of police using disproportionate and unnecessary force against two men involved in a peaceful protest …

10,000 Arab Israelis on Tuesday rallied in northern Israel to demand the right to return for all Palestinian refugees. The rally took place in the village Lavi, built on the wreckage of the Palestinian village Lubya, which was, until 1948, home to 2,726 Palestinians. During the Arab Israeli conflict in 1948  about 400-500 Palestinian villages were depopulated, destroyed, occupied and …

On Wednesday, pro-Russian forces lifted an armed siege on a regional police headquarters in Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine after the chief officer of the station agreed to resign. Meanwhile, The Ukrainian government said that its army is “on full combat alert” against a potential Russian invasion. Rebels already control the regional administration building and the SBU security services building. A …

Suspected Jewish extremists vandalized a church and a mosque in Israel, the police said on Tuesday, in the latest of a string of religious and racist attacks in the country. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that the vandals scribbled “Close mosques and not yeshivas” on the outer walls of a mosque in the Arab town Fureidis, near the port city …

On Friday, “outlaws” threw several petrol bombs at government buildings in the southern city Ma’an. The violence in the city this week has led to the death of one person and wounded five policemen, according to security sources. The violence began on Sunday, when gunmen fired at policemen guarding a courthouse in the night, seriously wounding one of them. It …

On Wednesday, a police brigadier general was killed by a bomb planted under his car; the attack is the fifth such targeted blast in Cairo this week. The attack, in the upscale suburb of 6th October City, killed commander of Egypt’s central security forces Ahmed Zaki, who spearheaded a crackdown on Morsi supporters. Morsi supporters have launched several attacks, mostly …

On Saturday, an Egyptian court handed out a yearlong jail sentence to Islamist leader Mohammed al-Beltagui and deposed President Mohammed Morsi, both standing on trial for murder, for insulting a state prosecutor, judicial sources said. Mohammed al-Beltagui, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member, and Mohammed Morsi were both in attendance on Saturday, standing trial for inciting the deaths of opposition members …