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Iraqi Shia Turkmen vow death before ISIL capture

Sun Aug 31, 2014 08:24:39

Residents of a besieged Iraqi town say they have prepared graves for their families and will kill their wives and children if the city falls to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists.

Maldives media raise nearly $2m for Gaza

Sun Aug 31, 2014 07:52:16

The Maldives Islands has raised around $2 million to help the Palestinians of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip after seven weeks of atrocities by Israel.

Iraq receives Russian Mi-28 gunships amid ISIL unrest

Sat Aug 30, 2014 22:45:42

Iraq has received Russian Mi-28 attack helicopters, as Baghdad steps up its anti-terrorist operations against the militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group.

Number of hunger strikers in Egypt highest since Sadat’s presidency

Sat Aug 30, 2014 20:58:03

Egyptian activists refuse to back down from the hunger strike that they embarked on to protest their arrest and the conditions they are facing in their detention. The list of participants grows ever longer, and it includes activists from different political affiliations.

Seized laptop reveals ISIL planning chemichal attacks in Syria

Sat Aug 30, 2014 20:42:44

A laptop recovered from properties of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group in Syria reveals a series of secret plans including instructions on how to develop biological weapons, Syrian opposition sources say.

Iraq launches major operation to liberate ISIL-besieged Amerli

Sat Aug 30, 2014 19:54:27

Iraqi army troops, volunteer fighters and Kurdish forces have launched a major operation to liberate the besieged Shiite Turkmen-majority town of Amerli.

Egypt clears death sentence of Brotherhood top leader

Sat Aug 30, 2014 18:40:04

Egyptian Court has cleared death sentences of Mohamed Badie, Muslim Brotherhood’s top leader, and several others, yet sentencing them to life in prison, following dispute between judge and country's top cleric over their convictions.

ISIL militants sell kidnapped Izadi women into forced marriage: NGO

Sat Aug 30, 2014 18:18:55

Militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq have transported kidnapped Izadi women to Syria, forcing them to convert and selling them into forced marriage to terrorists, a monitoring group says.

People in this Iraqi town decided to fight ISIL radicals

Sat Aug 30, 2014 18:14:38

As radical militants rampaged across northern Iraq in June, seizing vast swaths of territory and driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, the Shiite Turkmens living in the hardscrabble town of Amirli decided to stay and fight.

Syrian rebels attack UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights

Sat Aug 30, 2014 16:50:28

Western-backed rebels in Syriahave attacked Filipino troops in the Golan Heights, Philippine officials have said.

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