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Hamas rules out truce without end to Gaza seige

Sat Aug 23, 2014 07:59:57

Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said that the Palestinians would not accept anything less than an end to Israeli regime's blockade of Gaza, as Zionist troops continued to attack the besieged enclave.

Israeli airstrikes continue to hit Gaza, at least 4 killed

Fri Aug 22, 2014 22:49:17

Israeli airstrikes continued on Friday for a third day after the collapse of Egyptian-led ceasefire talks.

Hamas executes 18 men as spies for Israel: Video

Fri Aug 22, 2014 22:18:36

Hamas resistance group in Gaza executed 18 Palestinian spies accused of collaborating with Israel on Friday, a day after Israeli forces killed three Hamas commanders.

Sistani urges immediate Iraqi unity gov’t to confront ISIL

Fri Aug 22, 2014 19:16:00

Iraq's top Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said on Friday that all sides agreed on the need to form a "proper" government in Baghdad and repeated his call on compatriots to fight so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Iraqi, Kurdish forces battling to retake two ISIL-held towns

Fri Aug 22, 2014 16:59:37

Iraqi government forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched attacks to recapture two towns in the north from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Friday.

Ontario university students' union joins BDS to boycott Israel

Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:43:32

The Canadian Federation of Student's Ontario branch has decided to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel.

470 Gaza kids killed, over 370,000 need psychosocial aid: UNICEF

Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:18:59

Nearly 470 children have been killed and over 3,000 injured in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, a senior UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said, adding that more than 370,000 Palestinian kids require “immediate psychosocial first aid.”

Syria war death toll tops 180,000: Observatory

Fri Aug 22, 2014 09:47:29

The death toll from Syria’s war has topped 180,000 people and could be as high as a quarter-million, a leading opposition group says.

Israeli strikes kill senior Hamas commanders

Fri Aug 22, 2014 09:39:38

Israeli warplanes have assassinated three top Hamas commanders in southern Gaza after failing to kill its top military chief.

Syria army ‘wipes out’ dozens of ISIL terrorists in Raqqa

Fri Aug 22, 2014 09:19:10

Syria’s government troops have killed dozens of ISIL Takfiri terrorists in heavy clashes around the Tabqa military airport in Raqqa province.

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