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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
Israelis have gone on protests in September 2011 demanding reforms (AFP File Photo)
activists

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