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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
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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
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
Refugee waits in a camp on the Jordan side of the border with Syria AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI
Borders

Jordan demands international support in order to house Syrians

"The cost of hosting Syrians is almost $700 million", says the Jordanian…

Rana Muhammad Taha Rana Muhammad Taha
Libyans protest in Tripoli on 27 August to urge the newly-elected parliament to intervene to protect the national heritage after Islamist hardliners destroyed shrines across the country AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA
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Human Right’s Watch condemns attacks on Libyan Sufi shrines

NGO accuses government of refusing to stand up to Islamists over attacks

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Israelis have gone on protests in September 2011 demanding reforms (AFP File Photo)
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Israelis protest rising living costs

Hundreds demonstrate in front of Netanyahu’s house, protesting economic policy and tax…

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows a member of the Syrian security forces inspecting the wreckage of a vehicle in Al-Mehdi Street in the Abu Remmaneh district of the Syrian capital Damascus on September 2, 2012 as Syrian state TV reported twin bombings near security service buildings in the centre of the capital and said they wounded four people. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA
activists

Damascus blast and attacks on military installations on the rise

The continuing violence in Syria and the apparently well-coordinated attacks on military…

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
Amman

Jordanians protest skyrocketing fuel prices

Ten percent fuel price hike sparks outrage in Amman

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda founder and president Rached Ghannouch who ash been accused by opposition activists of increasingly authoritarian behaviour, speaks during a press conference in Tunis AFP PHOTO / SALAH HABIBI
ANHRI

Tunisian Islamists take to the streets

Friday protests demand greater action against old regime

Rana Muhammad Taha Rana Muhammad Taha
Bahrain women protesters (file photo) AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
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First authorised protest in Bahrain gathers thousands

A mass rally in Bahrain for liberty and democracy

Nouran El-Behairy Nouran El-Behairy
An opposition fighter shouts for help as he delivers the body of a civilian who was wounded during shelling by Syrian government forces outside a hospital in Syria's northern city of Aleppo AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Al-assad

Aleppo clashes intensify, NAM summit condemns Al-Assad

Increased offensives within Syria, defections and mounting regional pressure

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez