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Coalition carries out 22 strikes against IS in Iraq - 04/22/2015

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- The US-led coalition said Tuesday its warplanes carried out 22 strikes in Iraq over 24 hours targeting the Islamic State jihadist group north and west of Baghdad. This was the second...

Mortar fire kills two children in Egypt's Sinai - 04/21/2015

CAIRO, EGYPT- Mortar fire killed two five-year-old boys Monday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, officials said, hours after a bomb killed three soldiers in the area where troops are fighting an Islamist...

Syrian doctors ask Russia to help unblock medical aid - 04/19/2015

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- Two Syrian doctors urged Russian diplomats at the United Nations on Friday to put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to allow life-saving medical supplies into a...

Iraq massacre site turns into 'shrine' of anti-IS war - 04/18/2015

TIKRIT, IRAQ, Jean Marc Mojon- On the Tigris River waterfront where jihadists executed hundreds of captured Iraqi army recruits last year, bloodstains are gradually being covered by streaks of candle...

Migrants 'throw fellow passengers overboard' in religious row - 04/17/2015

AUGUSTA, ITALY, Fanny Carrier- Italian police said Thursday they had arrested a group of African migrants after witnesses said they threw 12 passengers overboard following a row about religion on a...

Voices of Holocaust survivors fading, 70 years on - 04/16/2015

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Rachel Rogers- Holocaust survivor Albert Garih has recounted his traumatic experience during World War II countless times. But as the 76 year old ages, he acknowledges he...

Car bombings kill 17 in Baghdad area - 04/16/2015

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Six car bombs in the Baghdad area, including one near a hospital, killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 55 on Tuesday, security and medical officials said. One blast hit a...

UN envoy to visit Iraq, Syria to address sexual violence - 04/16/2015

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- A UN envoy will travel to Iraq and Syria this week to address the disturbing use of rape, sex slavery and other sexual violence by extremists like the Islamic State....

Sheikh Zayed Book Award names Mohammed bin Rashed “ Personality of the Year” - 04/15/2015

Abu Dhabi, - The Sheikh Zayed Book [Committee/Board of Trustees] Award announced that Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, is named the...

Boko Haram use rape as tactic of war: UN - 04/14/2015

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- Extremist groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram are increasingly resorting to rape and sexual violence as a tactic of war, according to an annual UN report released...
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