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Guardian, By Harriet Sherwood
Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanon again on Friday, two days after air strikes targeted a convoy of arms or a weapons research base inside Syrian territory.
Andrea Tenenti, a spokesman for the UN forces in Lebanon, Unifil, confirmed that Israeli forces had continued to violate Lebanese airspace, but said this was [...]
NBC News (via Reuters), By Tom Perry and Yusri Mohamed
Opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi planned mass demonstrations on Friday, raising the prospect of more bloodshed despite a pledge by politicians to back off after the deadliest week of his seven months in office.
Protests marking the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled [...]
Patrick Markey has a Reuters Analysis piece today that deals with something I’ve alluded to in the past – that Iraq is headed for another eruptive episode in its ongoing civil war and it is a tossup whether the ignition point will be Kurds vs Baghdad, Kurds vs Sunnis or Sunnis vs Baghdad/Shiites. Markey [...]
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Gunfire Scatters Mourners at Egypt’s Port Said Funerals
Thousands of mourners marched on Sunday in the Egyptian canal city of Port Said at the funeral of people killed in clashes triggered by death sentences on supporters of a local football team.
Bodies wrapped [...]
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Assad Shown at Ceremony for Prophet Birthday
Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad was Thursday shown on state television attending prayers at a mosque in a northern district of Damascus to mark the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday.
The leader was shown in a live broadcast kneeling [...]
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Bodies of 25 Hostages Found at Algeria Gas Plant
Security forces found the bodies of 25 hostages on Sunday as they combed a desert gas plant after a deadly stand-off with Islamists, and witnesses said nine Japanese captives had been executed.
Citing security sources, [...]
Palestinian Militants From Syria Establish Lebanon Base
While Bashar al-Assad announced his new solution for Syria on Jan. 6, many recalled the widely known saying about the country’s heritage and its diaspora abroad, which reads: Every person in the world has two homelands, his place of birth first, and Syria second. For some time [...]
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Israel evicts Palestinian activists from Gate of Sun camp
Israeli police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for Jewish settlement.
Police and activists confirmed that hundreds of Israeli police entered the campsite [...]
UN warns 1 million Syrians going hungry due to conflict
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday it was unable to reach one million desperate and hungry Syrians because of the perilous security situation across the country after nearly two years of deadly conflict
*Iranian Captives Freed in Major Prisoner Exchange in [...]
U.S. ‘alarmed’ by Assad’s firing of Iranian-made precision missiles
The United States is becoming increasingly worried about Syria’s ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to the regime of President Assad, according to U.S. media reports.
The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that the Syrian regime recently fired four short-range Iranian-made ballistic missiles [...]
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Settlers raid Nablus village, burn Hebron car
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Dozens of settlers raided the northern West Bank village Qusra overnight Monday, uprooting more than 190 olive trees, an official told Ma’an.
Several residents of the village, near Nablus, were assaulted, and homes and a tractor were also damaged in [...]
The Brothers and the Gulf
Why the Muslim Brotherhood has Gulf leaders worried — now more than ever.
Recent developments in Egypt — where President Mohamed Morsy seems determined to advance the Brotherhood’s interests over that of all Egyptians — have only exacerbated such fears. The main obstacle to building ties between the UAE and [...]
Last ‘No to constitution’ rallies in Egypt
Egypt’s mainly secular opposition gathered for last-ditch protests on Friday against a new constitution it slams as divisive, but on the eve of a referendum it held back from urging a boycott.
Ten Reasons Egypt Should Boycott The Constitutional Referendum
A debate is currently taking place on the [...]
IDF Prepares for More West Bank Violence
The attack of the masses on a Nahal Brigade infantry patrol in Hebron ahead of last weekend is not just another warning sign of the possibility that Judea and Samaria will soon start to burn: It is another manifestation of the fact that years of almost total quiet [...]
Morsi cancels controversial decree, yet anger remains in Egypt
Morsi says he will still press ahead with referendum as opposition dismisses his announcements as ‘political manoeuvre aimed at duping people’.
Egypt’s main opposition considered Sunday whether to maintain mass protests against President Mohamed Morsi after the Islamist leader announced a key concession in [...]
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