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  • Rebels agree to respect Ukraine ceasefire

    Pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine have agreed to respect a ceasefire declared by the Ukrainian president, raising hopes for an end to months of fighting that has killed hundreds and ravaged the country's industrial heartland. The announcement on Monday came as the Russian and US presidents traded demands over the conflict. Russian President.. More

  • Israeli airstrikes hit Syria targets

    The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes on a number of military targets inside Syria in response to a cross-border attack that left an Israeli teenager dead, authorities have said. In a statement early on Monday, the military said nine targets were struck and "direct hits were confirmed." "Yesterday's attack was an unprovoked.. More

  • Killer soldier in South Korea standoff

    A South Korean conscript soldier who killed five of his comrades in a grenade and gun attack is continuing a standoff with troops trying to capture him in a region bordering North Korea. Speaking from Seoul, Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett said the standoff had been continuing for nearly 19 hours "after the soldier engaged a checkpoint on Sunday afternoon&qu.. More

  • Egypt court confirms Badie death sentence

    An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence against the Muslim Brotherhood's general guide Mohamed Badie and more than 180 others, judicial sources say. Lawyers said the ruling, which was confirmed on Saturday, can be overturned on appeal. Badie was one of thousands of Brotherhood figures and supporters arrested in a deadly crackdown following.. More

  • Israel intensifies hunt for missing teenagers

    Israel has sent more troops to the occupied West Bank to search for three missing teenagers it says were abducted by the Palestinian group Hamas. The military said it arrested 10 Palestinians on Saturday and that some 1,350 sites in the West Bank had been searched so far and more than 330 Palestinians detained. The raids have triggered street clashes.. More

  • Palestinian child killed by Israeli gunfire in West Bank

    A Palestinian child was killed and two people were injured by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank early Friday. Jihad Dodwen, 13, was killed during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Hanina neighborhood on the southern West Bank village of Dura. "The Israeli army shot directly at my little boy in order to kill him," Jihad's.. More

  • Thousands flee Pakistan's Waziristan conflict

    An ongoing military operation against Taliban fighters and their allies in the Pakistani tribal areas has triggered a mass exodus of residents from the area, with internally displaced people braving bombs, curfews and blocked roads to make it to the relative safety of neighboring districts, residents and officials have told Al Jazeera. "When we.. More

  • Egypt court orders dozen more death penalties

    An Egyptian court has sentenced 12 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi to death on charges connected to the fatal shooting of a police general last year. Eight of them, including the man convicted of firing the fatal bullet, are in custody, while the other four are on the run and were tried in absentia. The officer was killed during a police.. More

  • Ex-OIC head to run for Turkey presidency

    Turkey's two largest opposition parties have announced a prominent conservative diplomat as their joint candidate for the upcoming presidential election that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, is also expected to contest. The left-leaning secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said on Monday.. More

  • Egypt's new government sworn in by Sisi

    A veteran politician who was serving as Egypt's interim prime minister has been sworn in as the head of a new cabinet by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in his first major decision since his election victory last month. Ibrahim Mahlab was re-appointed as the country's new prime minister on Tuesday in front of Sisi, the former army chief who won 93 percent.. More

  • Israeli forces kill Palestinian during raids

    Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man and arrested the speaker of parliament, as the hunt for three Israelis believed to have been kidnapped in the occupied West Bank continues. Twenty-one-year-old Ahmed Sabarin was shot in the chest, according to hospital officials at the Palestine Medical Centre, as the Israeli army conducted house-to-house.. More

  • Dozens reported killed in Aleppo bombings

    Syrian government helicopters have dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 60 people, including several children, and injuring dozens, activists said. Most of the victims apparently died in a popular market in the al-Sukari district on Monday. Opposition activists said the market was packed.. More

  • Muslims killed in Sri Lanka mob attacks

    At least three people have been killed and more than 80 people injured in overnight mob attacks led by Sinhala Buddhist monks in two coastal Sri Lankan towns, according to medics. Also known as the Bodu Bala Sena, is led by Galagoda Atthe Gnanasara, who issued threats to destroy Muslim businesses before the riots. The group said its mission is to.. More

  • Egypt to release Al Jazeera's Elshamy

    Egypt's prosecutor general has ordered the release of Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy on medical grounds, ending almost a year of imprisonment without charge. A statement from the prosecutor's office on Monday said Elshamy, who has been on hunger strike since January, would be set free due to "health conditions". The statement said.. More

  • US to send up to 275 troops to Iraq

    US President Barack Obama has announced that up to 275 military personnel will be deployed to Iraq after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of the country's north. The troops will provide support and security for US personnel and the country's embassy in the capital, Baghdad. "This force is deploying.. More