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Two Egyptian policemen shot dead in Sinai

Gunmen have shot dead two Egyptian policemen in the bastion of the ISIS group in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said. "A police captain and a policeman died of their wounds after unknown assailants shot them" late Saturday in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish, the ministry...

2 Israelis, 1 Palestinian killed after Jerusalem stabbing

At least two Israelis and a suspected Palestinian assailant have been killed in Jerusalem on Saturday, police said. Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said the Palestinian was shot after the knife attack in Jerusalem's old city which also left at least two others injured, including a...

PKK abducts two Turkish soldiers: army

Suspected militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abducted two Turkish soldiers in eastern Turkey amid a flare-up of violence between Kurdish rebels and security forces, the army said Saturday. The militants seized the soldiers late Friday after stopping a passenger bus on a highway...

Israeli gunfire wounds 10 Palestinians in West Bank

Ten Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Saturday during a raid by troops hunting the murderers of a Jewish settler couple, Palestinian police and medical sources said. Palestinians protesting against the raid in the territory's main northern city of Nablus hurled...