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Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery
A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters ...Yemen militants shoot 14 soldiers, drone kills three al Qaeda suspects
Reuters) – An al Qaeda-affiliated group in Yemen said it killed 14 soldiers in an eastern province as revenge for an army ...Israelis, Gaza militants fight on, defying truce efforts
Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the ...Donetsk rebels surrounded, commander says
A top commander of the pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that Ukrainian forces have seized a key town, leaving the ...Israel says rockets fired from Gaza, violating cease-fire
Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip early Friday landing in empty fields in southern Israel just hours ahead of the ...US launches airstrikes in Iraq
U.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq\'s Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent ...Israel strikes Gaza after militants resume rocket fire
Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend ...Ukraine troops break out of encirclement, 15 troops killed
Ukrainian army units which had been trapped by separatists on the border with Russia broke out of the blockade on Friday and ...WHO declares Ebola an international health emergency
West Africa\'s Ebola epidemic constitutes an international health emergency and the virus, which has killed nearly 1,000 people, could continue spreading for ...US President Barack Obama authorises airstrikes in Iraq
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he had authorized limited U.S. airstrikes to blunt the onslaught of Islamic militants in northern Iraq ...