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Turkey shuts Syria border after bombingsTurkey has shut its side of the last border crossing with Syria still controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's government, stepping up security following two deadly bombings this month. Fifty-one people were killed when twin More… |
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Bomb hits Qatari convoy in Somalia, 8 killedA suicide bomber hit a convoy of cars carrying Qatari officials through the centre of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing eight Somalis, officials said. The visiting delegation of More… |
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Syrian PM survives Damascus bombing, 6 deadSyrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, state media and activists said, as rebels struck in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's capital. More… |
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Boston bombing suspect charged in hospitalProsecutors formally charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with the bombings at the Boston Marathon in a hearing held on Monday in his hospital room, accusing him of crimes that carry the possibility of the death penalty. The 19-year-old ethn More… |
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Top Iraqi army officer killed in suicide blastA suicide bomber killed a senior Iraqi army intelligence officer and three bodyguards on Saturday when he detonated his explosives at the officer's home in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Iraq has seen an increase in More… |
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Turkey scrambles jets after Syria bombingTurkey scrambled fighter jets to its southeastern border with Syria on Wednesday in response to a renewed Syrian air assault of the rebel-held frontier town of Ras al-Ain, Reuters witnesses said. More… |
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Security men killed in Syria suicide bombingDozens of Syrian security men were killed when two explosives-laden cars drove into a military camp in the southern town of Deraa on Saturday, an opposition watchdog said, in what appeared to be a double suicide attack. The first More… |
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Syria jets bomb cities, truce 'practically over'Syrian jets have bombarded Sunni Muslim regions in Damascus and around the country, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad kept up air strikes against rebels despite a UN-brokered truce that now appears to be in tatters. The More… |
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Syria bombards major cities, weakening truceSyrian opposition activists reported a return to heavy government bombardment in major cities on Saturday, further undermining a truce intended to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha religious holiday. Activists in the eastern city of Dei More… |
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Two killed in Iran suicide bombingA suicide bomber killed two guards as he blew himself up outside a mosque in a restive southern province of Iran on Friday after being prevented from reaching worshippers inside, Iranian media reported. The bomber set off his expl More… |
