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5 fishermen killed in suspected Daesh attack: Iraq

An Iraqi security official says five fishermen have been killed in an attack by Daesh (ISIS) militants on a camp site near the Therthar lake, 100 kilometers northwest of Baghdad. Naim Kaoud, head of the Anbar province security council, says the militants attacked the fishermen's site in...

Palestinians protest in Gaza and Jerusalem, 1 killed

 Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian teenager at a protest along Gaza-Israel border fence, Gaza officials said Friday, as thousands in contested Jerusalem descended on a section of a flashpoint holy site that has been closed by Israeli court order for over a decade. The Health...

Israeli police arrest 60 fearing Al-Aqsa unrest

Israeli police rounded up 60 "suspects" in Jerusalem overnight and promised more arrests Friday, after what a spokesman said were calls for unrest at the city's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP the detainees were "Arabs", a term that could refer to...