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Egyptian police kills five anti-government protesters

Sat Aug 16, 2014 18:19:20

The death toll from violence during anti-government protests by supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammad Morsi has increased to five, a health official says.

US hints at Syria rebels to ask Turkey bomb ISIL positions

Sat Aug 16, 2014 18:01:55

US officials who have supported a long extremist-marked insurgency in Syria that turned to a birthplace for one of the most radical terrorist groups in the Middle East have recently asked the Syrian opposition to call on the international community to bomb positions belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist group.

Israel and ISIL in undeclared alliance: Syrian envoy

Sat Aug 16, 2014 17:21:30

Syria’s ambassador to the UN says Israel has an undeclared alliance with the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group, allowing free flow of weapons and militants into the occupied Golan Heights and then into the rest of Syria.

Watch ISIL militants targeted while planting mines in Iraq

Sat Aug 16, 2014 16:55:17

A video footage shows a targeted airstrike over five members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group while planting mines in an unknown location in Iraq that leaves them dead.

Saudi HR advocate brutalized by regime: HRW

Sat Aug 16, 2014 15:17:27

A prominent Saudi activist imprisoned by the US-backed kingdom has been severely brutalized while being forcibly transferred to another detention facility, a major rights group reports.

ISIL bans chemistry, philosophy at Raqqa schools

Sat Aug 16, 2014 13:58:38

ISIL terrorist elements have banned the study of philosophy and chemistry in schools in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa and established a so-called “Islamic curriculum” for students.

ISIL terrorists kill 81 men, abduct 180 women in Iraq

Sat Aug 16, 2014 13:13:57

In their latest atrocity in Iraq, foreign-backed ISIL terrorists have killed 81 men and abducted 180 women in a raid on a village near the northern city of Sinjar.

Dutch man returns Israeli WWII honor after family killed in Gaza

Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:14:40

A 91-year-old Dutch man honored by the Israeli regime for shielding a Jew from the Nazis during World War II has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed by Israelis in a Gaza air strike.

Nasrallah calls ISIL "a monster" that threatens everyone

Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:14:09

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has described ISIL Takfiri terrorists as an existential threat to his nation as well as the entire region, insisting that if “this monster” is left undeterred, it would keep growing.

Sunni tribal leaders offer backing for new Iraqi gov’t

Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:14:27

Tribal leaders and clerics from Iraq's Sunni heartland have offered their backing for a new government that hopes to contain bloodshed and an offensive by Takfiri terrorists that threatens to tear the country apart.

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