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Hamas names suspect in bomb attack on prime minister

Hamas on Wednesday named a fugitive suspect in a bomb attack on Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah, two days after the Islamist movement itself was accused of the Gaza attack. Hamdallah was unhurt by the roadside blast that struck his convoy on March 13, in what Palestinian...

Iraq holds more than 19,000 on Daesh, militant links

Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to Daesh (ISIS) or other terror-related offenses, and sentenced more than 3,000 of them to death, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. The mass incarceration and speed of guilty verdicts raise...

Tehran has defused regional threats: Khamenei

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Iran had defused all regional threats against the country, as tension rises between Tehran and Washington over the influence of the Islamic Republic in the Middle East. In an Iranian New Year message, Khamenei did not specify...