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Broken furniture outside the US consulate building in Benghazi following an attack in which the US ambassador to Libya and three other US nationals were killed AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
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Rising speculations about Al-Qaeda’s affiliation to the attack on Benghazi consulate

AQAP suggests in a statement the attack was in revenge for Al-Libi’s…

Rana Muhammad Taha Rana Muhammad Taha
Tunisian protesters break into the US embassy in Tunis during a protest against a film mocking Islam on 14 September AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID
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US withdraws embassy staff from Sudan and Tunisia

Yemen and Sudan refuse deployment of Marines

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Protests outside US Embassy in Cairo Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
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US envoy to Libya dies in consulate attack

Controversial film provokes protests in Cairo, Benghazi

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Israeli boy inspects the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip hit a house in the southern Israeli town of Netivot on 9 September AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ
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Israel claims 70,000 Hezbollah rockets aimed at it

Israel claims the Lebanese militant group has multiplied its stockpiles since 2006…

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One day after Afghan National Army soldiers took part in a ceremony to mark the handing over of Bagram prison to Afghan authorities, the air base where it is situated was struck by several missiles AFP PHOTO / SHAH MARAI
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Missile attack on ISAF airbase in Afghanistan

Bagram airbase located near detention facility handed over to Afghan control on…

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
People walk past a row of destroyed buildings near the Al-Hayat Hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 10. Syrian troops on Tuesday pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria's second city, activists said, as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees from the conflict. AFP Photo
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Aleppo pounded as Jolie visits Syria refugees

Bloodshed continues in Syria, as Lakhdar Brahimi hold Syrian-crisis talks in Cairo

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A man carries a Palestinian child to be treated for wounds on 10 September at the Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB
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Rockets and air raids exchanged between Gaza and Israel

Raids on the Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired into Israel

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon waits to address the twenty-first session of the UN Human Rights Council on 10 September at the United Nations offices in Geneva. Ban and his human rights chief Navi Pillay called for more accountability for the bloodshed in Syria. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
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UN’s attackers in Syria must face justice: Pillay

Navi Pillay calls for holding UN attackers accountable for their actions

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Britain's Prince Harry examines the interior of an Apache helicopter with a member of his 622 Squadron at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on 7 September AFP PHOTO / POOL / JOHN STILLWELL
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Taliban target kidnap Prince Harry

British royal a high value target during four-month tour in Afghanistan

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Fighters pass weapons through a hole in a building before an offensive against government forces in Izza neighbourhood of the embattled northern city of Aleppo AFP PHOTO / ZAC BAILLIE
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Al-Qaeda-linked militant threatens Syria

Abu Sayyaf vows to fight against Al-Assad

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