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Egyptian police block Gaza border
CAIRO — Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday (May 18), stranding hundreds...
Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women’s law
KABUL - Afghanistan’s parliament failed to pass a law today (May 18) banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim...
Afghan police chief shot dead outside home
KABUL - An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house.
Iran may ban candidates who seek US ties
TEHRAN (Iran) — The head of Iran’s constitutional watchdog says it may disqualify candidates in June presidential elections who seek full relations with the United States.
More than 1.5 million have fled Syria: UN
GENEVA — More than 1.5 million people have fled Syria as conditions there deteriorate rapidly, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Car bomb kills 15 in Afghanistan
KABUL — A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul today (May 16), killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials...
Islamist rebels execute 11 Syrian soldiers
BEIRUT - Fighters of the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a video published...
Bombs kill more than 35 people across Iraq
BAGHDAD — Bomb attacks in Shia areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people yesterday (May 15), following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents...
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