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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud stand next to a burnt armoured vehicle near the Karam Salem border crossing on August 6, 2012
defence

Alleged Mossad assassination in Sinai

Israeli Mossad agents entered Egyptian territory, assisted to kill jihadists, says Ma’an…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
An image from Al-Jazeera television broadcast on 21 August shows three Western hostages taken captive in northern Mali almost nine months ago by Ansar Dine, just one of several Islamist groups including MUJAO and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb AFP PHOTO / AL-JAZEERA / HO
Al-Qaeda

Mali rebels kill Algerian diplomat

As violence continues in Mali, MUJAO kills Taher Touati

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip (right) chairs a meeting members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City on 2 September AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
Egypt

Hamas announces government reshuffle

Seven new ministers to be appointed by Hamas government

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
An Israeli moving company employee carries cardboard for boxes as he walks past a caravan of evacuated settlers in the Migron outpost in the occupied West Bank on 2 September AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON
evacuation

Israel completes evacuation of unauthorized settlement

Migron’s 50 families smoothly evacuated

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Jordanian police forces keep watch during an anti-government rally in Amman on 1 September, held to protest against proposed rises in gasoline prices AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
budget

Jordan goes back on fuel price hikes

Proposed 10% rise in fuel prices stooped by King Abdullah II

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Turkish soldiers and medics unload the coffin of a slain Turkish soldier to a hospital in Beytussebap on 3 September. Kurdish rebels wielding rocket launchers and machine-guns attacked a security base in southeast Turkey, triggering a firefight that left 30 people dead AFP PHOTO
attack

Around 30 dead in Kurdish clashes with Turkish security

The PKK killed the 10 Turkish troops amid clashes in Sirnak provice

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Pakistani rescuers inspect the badly damaged US consulate vehicle at a bomb blast site in Peshawar AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED
Al-Qaeda

Pakistan bomb attack injures four US consular staff

US Consulate employees target of Peshawar attack

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian firefighters extinguishing a fire following at the site of a car bomb that ripped through Jaramana, a mainly Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus, on September 3, 2012. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA
Al-assad

The bitter truth; peaceful resolution in Syria “nearly impossible”

New special envoy to Syria admits the task ahead may be insurmountable…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Afghan policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul (File photo) AFP PHOTO
Afghan

US suspends some Afghan trainings

Move comes on heel of insider attacks

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Ramlet Boulaq Popular Committee members speak out during a press conference Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
arrest

Ramlet Boulaq residents: improve the area or give us fair compensation

Campaign of arbitrary arrests continues in Ramlet Boulaq

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein