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Syrian refugees top 3 million, half of all Syrians displaced: U.N.
Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighboring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows ...U.N. says 43 Golan peacekeepers seized by Syria militants, 81 trapped
Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region, ...4 Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes with militants
Iraqi police officials say that clashes between Iraqi soldiers and militants with the Islamic State group south of Baghdad have killed four ...No let-up in Gaza war as Egypt presses on with truce efforts
Israeli air strikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and militants kept up their rocket fire on southern Israel ...French PM Manuel Valls resigns amid economy row
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls presented his government\'s resignation on Monday, a day after Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg called for new economic ...Russia says wants to send second aid convoy to east Ukraine
Russia wants to send a second humanitarian aid convoy to eastern Ukraine in the near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on ...Hundreds dead as Islamic State seizes Syrian air base
Islamic State militants stormed an air base in northeast Syria on Sunday, capturing it from government forces after days of fighting that ...Malaysia receives bodies from Flight 17 crash
The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived ...Israeli air strike kills three Hamas commanders in Gaza
Israel killed three senior Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip in an air strike on Thursday and said it would continue to ...Gaza war rages on, Hamas says Israel tried to kill its military chief
An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas\'s military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling ...