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The hand of a victim is seen during the funeral of civilians killed in an air strike by the Syrian army in an undisclosed location in the northern province of Aleppo on 3 September AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
Al-assad

Highest rates of death and displacement since the uprising in Syria began

Struggle intensifies with no end in sight

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah AFP Photo
attack

Nasrallah threatens US on behalf of Iran

Warnings over a possible Israeli strike against Hezbollah’s major ally

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
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
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
attack

Human Right’s Watch condemns attacks on Libyan Sufi shrines

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

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt