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Deadly explosion rocks Egypt's Nile Delta

A car bomb has killed 14 people and injured 120 as it tore through a police headquarters in the Delta region city of Mansoura, Egyptian officials have said. Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, reporting from Cairo, said it was not yet clear whether he bomb that rocked Dakhalya Police Security Directorate in the capital of Dakhalya Governorate early on Tuesday.. More

193006 24/12/2013
Egypt court jails activists over protests

A Cairo court has sentenced three leading activists to three years in prison for organizing an illegal protest, the latest move in a widening crackdown on critics of the interim government. Two of the three activists, Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel, are leading members of the April 6 movement. The third is Ahmed Douma, a longtime activist. They have.. More

192976 23/12/2013
Syrian regime air raids kill dozens in Aleppo

Syrian army helicopters have killed least 56 people, including children, by dropping "barrel bombs" on the northern city of Aleppo, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sunday's air raids targeted Aleppo's Masaken Hanano neighborhood, hitting a second-hand market, a two-story building and a main road, activists.. More

192973 23/12/2013
HRW says Egypt broadens opposition crackdown

Human Rights Watch has denounced the arrest of a prominent Egyptian activist during a raid by security forces on a domestic human rights organization, which it described as a continuation of a crackdown on dissent. Police broke into the offices of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights late Thursday and arrested six of its members who were.. More

192943 22/12/2013
Repatriation of British doctor's body begins

The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon from south London, across the Syrian border into Lebanon.. More

192940 22/12/2013
Egypt police use teargas to disperse pro-democracy rallies

Egyptian security forces used teargas to disperse fresh Friday rallies staged by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in several provinces. A pro-democracy rally was dispersed by teargas in the Giza neighborhood of Omranyeh. A number of demonstrators were arrested. Backers of the ousted president were also dispersed in the Cairo district of.. More

192925 21/12/2013
Syria armed opposition chief rejects Geneva peace talks

The leader of the most powerful opposition group in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham, says he will not recognize any agreement reached in the Geneva peace conference planned for January. Hassan Aboud, speaking to Al Jazeera from an undisclosed location inside Syria, said the group would "absolutely not" take part in the talks in Switzerland, planned.. More

192922 21/12/2013
Egyptian police raid human rights group

Egyptian police have raided the offices of a local human rights organization and arrested at least one person, the latest move in a widening crackdown on critics of the interim government. Dozens of armed policemen entered the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights shortly after midnight on Thursday, according to Mahmoud Bilal, a lawyer for.. More

192913 20/12/2013
Regime air strikes pound Aleppo for fifth day

Syrian regime warplanes have bombed northern Aleppo for a fifth consecutive day, with opposition activists alleging that regime forces dropped barrel bombs - barrels filled with explosives dropped from helicopters - on the city and several nearby villages. The attacks on Thursday killed at least 11 people in two villages, among them four women and.. More

192910 20/12/2013
UN says 210,000 displaced in CAR violence

The United Nations’ refugee agency has said that approximately 210,000 people have been displaced in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, in the past two weeks as a result of sectarian violence. Central Africans have been running away from the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the country, where France has around 1,600.. More

192901 19/12/2013
Palestinians killed in Israeli arrest raids

The Israeli army has shot dead two Palestinian men in separate raids in a town and a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, sources on both sides said. One of the victims, a member of the Palestinian security forces, was killed during an overnight arrest raid early on Thursday in the northern town of Qalqilya. "During an ambush organized to.. More

192898 19/12/2013
UK doctor dies in Syrian jail

A British doctor has died in a Syrian jail, his family said on Tuesday. Abbas Khan, an orthopedic surgeon from south London, was arrested within 48 hours of arriving in Syria to offer his services in opposition-held Aleppo. His family was told he would be released this week, his brother told the BBC, but when his mother went to visit him in Damascus,.. More

192889 19/12/2013
South Sudan violence spreads from capital

Fighting between military factions has spread from the capital to the rural state of Jonglei in South Sudan, prompting fears of a wider conflict. The escalation of violence on Wednesday comes as United Nations diplomats reported that up to 500 people have been killed since Sunday. South Sudanese military spokesman Colonel Philip Aguer told the AP.. More

192886 19/12/2013
Israel fires into Lebanon 'in retaliation'

The Israeli army has said it fired across the Lebanese border in retaliation after accusing Lebanese troops of gunning down one of its soldiers as he drove near the frontier. The incident jarred the relatively stable standoff between the two neighbor’s, which last saw major hostilities in the 2006 war between Israel and the armed Lebanese Shia.. More

192844 17/12/2013
Egypt prosecutor seeks father of arrested boy

A prosecutor has ordered the arrest of an Egyptian man whose 15-year-old son was detained last month for bringing a ruler with a Muslim Brotherhood symbol on it to school, the family's lawyer said. The father, Mohamed Abdulghani Bakara, was accused of encouraging his son Khaled to bring the ruler to the classroom, the lawyer said, in a sign of a widening.. More

192841 17/12/2013

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